The platform 10,000+ mid-market B2C businesses run their customer conversations on

Respond.io turns high volumes of customer conversations across every channel into measurable revenue. Built for businesses that have outgrown lightweight tools but don't need enterprise complexity.

Vision

A world where every business is just a message away and no conversation goes unanswered. 💬

Mission

To revolutionize how businesses communicate with consumers, turning every conversation into an opportunity for lasting growth. ✨

Our story

Respond.io is a customer conversation management platform built for mid-market B2C businesses that drive revenue from high-volume customer conversations. It helps them capture, convert, and retain customers across every channel where those conversations happen.


In 2017, Gerardo Salandra, Iaroslav Kudritskiy, and Hassan Ahmed saw that messaging apps were overtaking calls and emails in customer communication preferences, but businesses were still managing these through personal phones and disconnected tools such as CRMs designed for email or helpdesks retrofitted for messaging. This led to scattered responses, missed messages, dropped leads and lost potential revenue from customer conversations, especially when ad-driven inbound enquiries scaled.


Respond.io was built to close that gap. A single platform where human teams and AI Agents manage chats, calls, and campaigns across the full customer lifecycle — designed to drive revenue from day one and hold up as volume, teams and complexity grow.


Today, over 10,000 brands across 180+ countries run their customer conversations on respond.io, supported by official partnerships with Meta, TikTok, OpenAI, and AWS. Respond.io is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with a strong presence in Asia Pacific, Latin America, North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Respond.io’s major milestones

2017

Rocketbots is founded in Hong Kong

2018

Raised seed funding led by Global Technology Alliance

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2019

Moved our headquarters from Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpur

2020

Changed our company name to respond.io

2021

Introduced our powerful chat automation, Workflows

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2022

Raised $7 million in Series A Funding led by Headline Asia

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2023

Partnered with Meta to become a WhatsApp BSP

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2023

Moved to our own headquarters in Kuala Lumpur

2023

Introduced AI capabilities

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2024

Launched native Customer Lifecycle management 

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2024

Selected for first release of WhatsApp Business Calling

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2025

Became an official TikTok Marketing Partner

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2025

Launched autonomous AI Agents

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2025

Launched VoIP calls as a new channel

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2026

Recognized as one of the first OpenAI partners in Malaysia

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2026

Won TikTok Innovation Award 2026

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2026

Raised $62.5 million in Series B Funding led by Camber Partners

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Our awards

Our leadership

Hassan Ahmed, Co-founder & CTO

Spearheading the development and innovation of the business messaging platform, Hassan brings visions to life while ensuring stability and security with every update. He studied computer engineering from NUST and holds a degree in computer science from the University of Peshawar.

Gerardo Salandra, Co-founder & CEO

Gerardo is the visionary behind the AI-powered platform. With previous experience at IBM, Google and Runtastic, he has accumulated expertise in artificial intelligence and growth hacking and is co-chairman of the Artificial Intelligence Society of Hong Kong.

Iaroslav Kudritskiy, Co-founder & COO

Iaroslav is the driving force behind respond.io’s growth and operations. A graduate of the MBA program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, his previous roles include designing information management systems and horizontal knowledge transfer strategies at Kodak Alaris, Xaxis & Light Reaction.

Gerardo Salandra, Co-founder & CEO

Gerardo is the visionary behind the AI-powered platform. With previous experience at IBM, Google and Runtastic, he has accumulated expertise in artificial intelligence and growth hacking and is co-chairman of the Artificial Intelligence Society of Hong Kong.

Iaroslav Kudritskiy, Co-founder & COO

Iaroslav is the driving force behind respond.io’s growth and operations. A graduate of the MBA program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, his previous roles include designing information management systems and horizontal knowledge transfer strategies at Kodak Alaris, Xaxis & Light Reaction.

Hassan Ahmed, Co-founder & CTO

Spearheading the development and innovation of the business messaging platform, Hassan brings visions to life while ensuring stability and security with every update. He studied computer engineering from NUST and holds a degree in computer science from the University of Peshawar.

Here's how respond.io sets you up for success

1. Designed for growth

Designed for growth

Quickest ROI in the market with a roadmap shaped by you to scale revenue across the customer lifecycle—you'll grow with us, not outgrow us.

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2. Reliability at scale

Reliability at scale

Best-in-class tech and enterprise-grade security for speed and stability, with 99.999% uptime under high chat volumes.

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3. Leading with experience

Leading with experience

The only customer conversation platform with 9 years of market leadership, preferred by Meta and TikTok for early feature access.

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4. Support you can trust

Support you can trust

Top-rated human support and expert guidance at every stage to help you scale confidently and achieve ambitious goals.

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