Helping leading brands scale communications over millions of customers in real-time & create better experiences via efficient omnichannel marketing
First Invested
Mar-19
Founders
- Oguz Kucukbarak
- Emin Altin
Investment Manager
Ali Karabey
SmartMessage helps leading brands manage, automate, and scale customer communications across millions of users in real time through an efficient omnichannel marketing platform. By bringing together channels such as email, SMS, push notifications, messaging apps, and other digital touchpoints, SmartMessage enables companies to deliver more personalized, timely, and consistent customer experiences. Its platform supports customer segmentation, campaign automation, real-time engagement, and performance optimization, helping businesses improve conversion, retention, and overall marketing effectiveness while managing high-volume communications from a single integrated system.
Oguz Kucukbarak, Co-founder and CEO
Oguz Kucukbarak started up his company at a young age after gaining experience at prestigious banks in the finance sector, including HSBC, TEB, and BankEuropa. He combined his industrial engineering background with creative business ideas to create the omnichannel marketing platform, SmartMessage that stepped into the market in 2005.
With Kucukbarak’s strategy and vision, SmartMessage performed noticeably fast growth in Turkey and EMEA, and was recognized by renowned business strategy and consultancy pioneers including Deloitte. SmartMessage became a global brand serving brands across continents and was crowned with many prestigious awards, including Stevie and European Business Awards.
Besides his engineering background, Kucukbarak holds an MBA. He is a father of two daughters and a professional motocross rider.