Whether you’re a founder looking to scale, a professional seeking to build wealth, or a partner exploring collaborations in communications, AI, or real estate — I’d love to hear from you.

Emmanuel
Gbolade

Scaling Companies Globally

Hi, I’m Emmanuel Gbolade — a stanford graduate business and Y Combinator W20 - Alum. Also a Nigerian-born and U.S.-based technology entrepreneur, founder, and investor building Africa's modern communications infrastructure and helping professionals build wealth across borders.

But above all, I’m a christian, a husband to Mayowa Gbolade and a father of three incredible children. My family and faith keeps me grounded, fuels my vision, and reminds me daily that legacy isn’t just about business — it’s about who we build for and what we leave behind.

Years of experience

Chiarman & CEO Termii Group

Founding Partner Aidi Ventures Group

Investor In 20 Fast growing companies

Expertise Business & Investments

Companies I've Scaled

I've backed and helped multiple founders, executives, and investors scale high-growth businesses across Africa, the U.S., and emerging markets.

Termii is a cpaas providing businesses with access to AI-powered communication solutions globally.
Siutel is an mvno that provides emerging markets with access to global virtual communications.
Sotel is an eSim provider that offers businesses and employees with access to data connectivity globally.
Aidi Ventures is a family office / advisory firm that equips founders with services they need to build wealth across borders.

Mercury is building a banking stack and empowering the next generation startups.
Formal empowers security teams to enforce access policies to real-time data flows.
Moni is providing growth capital to businesses using a social accountability credit system.
Rivy provides homes and businesses with quick loans for clean energy access.

Rayda helps businesses ship, track and recover work tools from employees globally.
Grey helps freelancers send, and receive client payments in multiple currencies.
Bitmama allows individuals and businesses manage digital assets conveniently.
CreditChek helps businesses verify the true identity of customers to prevent bad debt.

Nigenius provides teachers with resources and connects them to learners for tutoring.
Convoy enables businesses send, receive and manage millions of webhooks reliably.
Bumpa provides SMBs with tools to manage their financial and business operations.
Haven transforms underutilized spaces into high-yield, fully managed stays for travelers.

Business
expertise

Board & Retained Advisory

Long-term strategic guidance, quarterly strategy sessions on growth, fundraising, market entry, or pitch review.

Project-Based Consulting

Fundraising strategy, SaaS Go-To-Market plans, expansion playbooks, or investor decks.

Family Office & Investments

Strategic guidance on setting up personal family offices and cross-border investment structures.

Proud
stories

The intersection between fintech and telecoms is a new space ripe for growth, and Gbolade has laid down a marker for a new standard of messaging platform capabilities with his company Termii.

Yele Bademosi

Founding Partner of Microtraction

Gbolade possesses levels of technical expertise and business acumen unmatched by the vast majority of his industry peers.

Francis Sani

Technical Adviser to HRM of Nigeria's FMCIDE

Gbolade is someone I would consider among the top 1% of professionals for business development and creative drive in the entrepreneurial space.

Satoshi Shinada

Partner at Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures

Gbolade is one of the very top entrepreneurs in the fintech space today, and he has almost single-handedly led the charge for further development of more streamlined, more efficient, and more serviceable fintech software platforms.

Vincent Li

Co-Founder and CEO of Future Hub

achievement

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Awarded €4,000 grant at the Next Economy Accelerator

organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

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Accepted into the Y Combinator Accelerator

receiving $150,000 in seed funding and global mentorship from top entrepreneurs

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Raised over $5 million in equity funding across my ventures

from global VCs like Fintech Collective, Launch Africa Ventures and Ventures Platform.

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Scaled Termii as its CEO to 2 billion in customer

transactions to be named one of financial times fastest growing telecoms company

Articles

Beyond Startup

Beyond Startup, founded by Emmanuel Gbolade, is a Substack community where operators, founders, and investors come to access content crafted to teach how to grow — not just startups, but lasting infrastructure, generational wealth, and strategic clarity.

🚀 From Yaba to YC: What They Don’t Tell You About Getting In
The real story behind our journey to Y Combinator — visa rejections, late-night emails, surprise demolitions, and what I wish every founder knew....
💭 What to do when fear becomes your co-founder.
How to keep building when self-doubt and fear sit in every meeting — quietly making all the decisions...
💸 Should Money Be the Main Reason You Start a Business?
Why the great founders build for more than profit — and how I learned this the hard way...
📈 The Power of Compound Growth
I’ve been catching up with a few founder friends globally — sharp operators building lean...

Emmanuel Gbolade