The company I founded · 2026
Bolo Media.
Bolo Media is the company I founded in Ahmedabad in 2026. We build Bolo, which turns a product photo or a few lines of text into ready-to-post video ads and reels with natural Gujarati and Hindi voices, for small and local businesses that can’t hire a studio or an agency.
- Company
- Bolo Media
- Product
- Bolo
- Founder
- Jaimin Mehta
- Founded
- 2026
- Based in
- Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- Languages
- Gujarati ગુજરાતી · Hindi हिन्दी
- Built for
- Small and local businesses
- Website
- bolo-media.com ↗
What Bolo makes
Ads, reels, stories and local news.
Bolo (બોલો) means “speak” in Gujarati and Hindi. That is the whole idea: a small business should be able to speak to its customers the way a big brand does, in the language they actually think in.
Clothes
Jewellery
Snacks
FestiveSmall photo top-left: what the shop gave us. Big video: what Bolo made from it. Every video here was made with Bolo.
Who it’s for
The shop down the road.
The saree shop, the jeweller, the sweet shop, the namkeen brand. Good products and loyal customers, but no studio, no agency and no voice artist.
An ad that sounds translated from English is worse than no ad. The voice has to sound like someone from here.
Vertical videos and reels made for the feeds where these customers already spend their time.
Why I founded બોલો Media.
Big brands in India speak to people in their own language, on video, every day. The businesses that actually run a neighbourhood mostly can’t. A studio or an agency costs money and time, shooting needs equipment and editing skills, and good Gujarati voice-over artists are hard to find. So the small business posts a photo with some text while the national brand runs a proper video ad in the same feed.
I wrote my first Android app in 2009, when smartphones were still new in India, and spent the next seventeen years building software, leading mobile projects and running technical delivery at IndiaNIC, Softweb, Astron, Silver Touch and Vagaro. Each shift in technology had the same pattern: something that needed a big team suddenly needed a small one. AI video and voice felt like that shift again.
But raw AI models are not a product. A shop owner doesn’t want to write prompts or pick from two hundred voices. They want to say “this is my product, this is my offer” and get back something they can post that evening. In 2026 I left my job, founded Bolo Media and started building Bolo to do exactly that.
What we believe
Four rules we build by.
Gujarati and Hindi done properly, not ten languages done badly.
Budgets are tight, judgement is sharp. They spot fake or cheap instantly.
If a feature needs a tutorial, most people will never use it. The default has to be good enough to post.
Generated faces and voices raise real questions. We’d rather answer them early than explain them away later.
Quick answers
Bolo Media, FAQ.
Who is the founder of Bolo Media?
Bolo Media was founded by Jaimin Mehta, an entrepreneur from Ahmedabad with 17+ years in tech. He started as an Android developer in 2009 and was a technical project manager at Vagaro before founding Bolo Media in 2026.
What does Bolo Media do?
Bolo Media builds Bolo, an AI video platform that turns a product photo or a few lines of text into ready-to-post video ads and reels with natural Gujarati and Hindi voices. It also makes short stories, local-news style videos and talking-presenter ads.
What does “Bolo” mean?
Bolo (બોલો) means “speak” in Gujarati and Hindi.
Who is Bolo for?
Small and local businesses that want video ads for Instagram and WhatsApp but cannot hire a studio or an agency.
Which languages does Bolo support?
Gujarati and Hindi.
Where is Bolo Media based?
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
When was Bolo Media founded?
In 2026.
Where can I see Bolo’s work?
On bolo-media.com, on Instagram at @bolomediaai and on YouTube at @BoloMediaAI.
Find Bolo
See it for yourself.
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