Chaymeriyia Moncrief
Chaymeriyia Moncrief is a tech entrepreneur from Alabama, USA. She is the founder and CEO of the prepaid wireless carrier, Tesix Wireless™ Network.
At 24, Moncrief, turned down a $4.4 million offer for her company, and therfore raised over $5 million which her telecom company at the end 2019 had a $10 million valuation. Now, she is 25 years and has ventured into smartphones and electronics.
But this isn’t the first company Moncrief has started; she has been hard at work from an early age.
“I do have a branding agency and that is what I started at 12 years old, as a designer, and it officially turned into a business at 16,” Moncrief told WSFA12.
“I am a huge thinker and big dreamer,” she said.
Moncrief is the first African-American woman to launch her own line of smartphones, according to blackbusiness.com. Her electronic brand is called NSPRE™ Electronics featuring smartphones and other electronics.
She studied Business Management and Computer Science in Alabama State University.
In 2016, she launched a Branding Studio before stepping into the world of technology at 24 after
Before her present endeavors, she had earlier launched a branding studio.
Moncreif relates her bad experience with a cell phone company.
“You go in and they say your phone bill is going to be $98, but you are getting a $150 or $200 bill. I think the final straw for me was a $235 bill, and that is when I said I want my own company,” she told WSFA.
She went on to create her business Tesix Wireless, a telecommunications company that announced its launch in 2018. “The name [Tesix Wireless] comes from two things: Technology and sixteen because sixteen is when I started my entrepreneurship journey. The name has a personal meaning to me,” Moncrief said.
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