Termii YC Application

Winter 2020Active

Termii went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2020
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 63
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Emmanuel GboladeFounder
Ayomide AweFounder

What Termii does

Termii is an AI-native reliability infrastructure that prevents transactions like logins, payments, checkouts, fraud alerts, and OTPs from failing - using AI. We process over 3B+ transactions and reach more than 16M end-users across banks, fintechs, e-commerce and digital platforms globally.

Termii's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Termii, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Termii

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-native reliability infrastructure

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built an AI-driven platform that ensures critical transactions - logins, payments, OTPs, fraud alerts - don't fail. Banks, fintechs, and digital platforms use Termii to reliably reach their users via SMS and other channels. Our product monitors, predicts, and automatically adjusts delivery to prevent transaction failures in real-time.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and operate in Lagos, Nigeria. Our company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Lagos is where our technical and business roots are. The market here faces real problems with transaction reliability and SMS delivery, and it's where we understand customers best.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Termii YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Termii's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Termii would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.