Termii

 
Big Data | Nigeria

Termii helps African businesses use messaging channels to verify and authenticate customer transactions

What they do:

Termii is building the Twilio of Africa. The company (Termii) helps African businesses use messaging channels to verify and authenticate customer transactions. The company has built a platform that helps tech businesses across Africa to use messaging channels to engage, verify and authenticate customer transactions. The team has built capability to deliver verification and user-based notifications across Africa and the middle-east, which jointly comprises up to a billion people.

With Termii businesses can:

  1. Verify customer identity & transactions

  2. Send product notifications to customers

  3. Generate personality and engagement insights from customer transactions


Why we invested:

Termii operates in a global A2P (Application-to-Person) messaging space valued at $59.1 billion and expected to rise to $74.7B by 2026. Africa, where the team is operating across multiple countries, accounts for 3.5% ($2Billion) growing 9.7% annually (Source: Maia Research Analysis & Global Industry Analysts Inc., (GIA) 2021). The company currently processes over 320 Million message transactions annually reaching at least 20 Million Africans across financial services, health technology, education technology and logistics technology sectors.

The Founder:

Emmanuel Gbolade is an Angel Investor and digital marketing expert with experience in software development, business management, business analytics, financial technology and entrepreneurship. He is a Co-founder and CEO at Termii. His past roles include Chief Operating Officer at Accounteer and Chief Technology Officer at Heels -  Nigeria's premier online shoe store offering a wide selection of hand picked designer shoes for females.

Emmanuel’s industry activities include supporting startups and technology entrepreneurs at Aidi Ventures (Aidi.africa). He is passionate about small technology-focused businesses and believes that they are the necessary tool needed at ensuring economic & financial growth across the African continent.

Emmanuel’s aim is to explore the vast opportunities technology holds at transforming Africa and to help fellow entrepreneurs do the same. As a young and vibrant professional, he also looks forward to participating in programmes that offer high growth potentials and challenging industrial opportunities.

Active in:

Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and U.S.A.

trove