• South African entrepreneur Bonga Lamula co-founded Beqy.ai to automate corporate financial management.
• Founded in 2023, Beqy.ai uses artificial intelligence to centralize accounting, reporting, and financial forecasting.
• The platform targets executives and finance professionals seeking real-time, reliable financial data for faster decision-making.

Bonga Lamula is a South African entrepreneur and an expert in artificial intelligence and digital transformation. He serves as co-founder and chief executive officer of Beqy.ai, an online platform that helps companies manage their finances by automating accounting processes and financial monitoring.

Founded in 2023, Beqy.ai aims to transform how companies track revenues, expenses, and forecasts. The platform seeks to provide executives and finance professionals with continuous access to reliable data in order to support rapid decision-making and reduce risks linked to weak financial visibility.

Beqy.ai centralizes several core functions within a single interface, including transaction tracking, report preparation, analysis, and forecasting. The platform automates the production of monthly financial reports and key performance indicators, which reduces manual workloads and limits human error.

The solution also offers dashboards that allow companies to visualize performance, identify trends, and quickly detect risk signals such as rising costs or declining cash flow. The platform integrates analytical tools that help users understand changes in revenues, expenses, loan repayments, and other significant financial movements.

Bonga Lamula earned a bachelor’s degree in commerce in 2013 and a bachelor’s degree in economics in 2014 from the University of Zululand. He later obtained a master’s degree in finance in 2023 from Corvinus University of Budapest.

He completed a risk analyst internship in 2015 at the South African Reserve Bank. He then joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in South Africa in 2016 as an investment strategist.

From 2017 to 2020, he worked at Anheuser-Busch InBev, where he successively held roles as supply projects specialist, Africa procurement manager, and digital transformation manager. From 2022 to 2024, he served as digital transformation manager at Tesco Business Solutions in Budapest.

This article was initially published in French by Melchior Koba

Adapted in English by Ange J.A de Berry Quenum