About
Built in South Africa. Built for the conversation the world actually has.
Ruka is a small, distributed team of builders, operators and designers. SmartChat is one of the products we run on our Echo platform.
Why we built this
We watched friends run small businesses into the ground not because their product was bad, but because their phone never stopped. We thought a quieter kind of software could help. So we built one.
The people
Ronald Magondo
Co-Founder, CEO
Strategy and investor relations.
Dean Kabasa
Co-Founder, COO
Operations and finance. Holds the business together.
Bongani Mtimkulu
Co-Founder, CTO
Engineering and AI. Builds what runs underneath.