The Cape Town team behind Light Industrial stock control software

Light Industrial is built by Hybrida, a Cape Town software company. Between us we have over 20 years of software experience across manufacturing, finance, construction and retail. We build AI-powered products and we run the technology function for companies that are growing.

Support is included on every plan and we reply within 24 hours. If you want a direct line and a faster response, priority support is available as a higher tier.

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What we have built

  • A manufacturing ERP with QuickBooks integration, live at a South African manufacturer. Core ERP grew out of it.
  • AI document validation inside a listed UK consumer-finance lender, reading tens of thousands of fields in production.
  • Three years as the technology team for a South African precious-metals group while it grew three times over.
  • The project-management system for a construction contractor building housing, bridges and hospitals.
  • A fully on-premises tender-intelligence system on local AI models for an ICT services company.
  • Our own products: a home-care marketplace in the UK, a visual search app for fashion and a WhatsApp recruitment screening platform.

We have built for businesses from five people to several hundred. We work with what you already run.

The team

Meet the team

Donovan Risk

Co-founder, business development

Fifteen years in technology across industries, as an engineer, a technical lead and a founder. He co-founded several companies and had an exit as an early engineer at a blockchain company. He has run the technology function for a fast-growing group, shipped AI document pipelines inside a regulated UK lender, and built project-management software for the construction industry. He is the first person most customers speak to.

Francois Botma

Co-founder, engineering

Fifteen years running businesses before software: restaurants, workshops, and the IT infrastructure and networking for a metropolitan municipality. A software engineer full time since 2023, he has built manufacturing, construction and on-premises AI systems. He builds the systems our customers run on, and Core ERP started as his work.

Tankiso Montse

Software engineer

An AI-powered software engineer who builds the apps and screens our customers use every day. He has shipped consumer apps, a marketplace in the UK and business systems across construction, media and manufacturing.