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The brain stays home.

Takkufy grew out of Witsberry, a Sri Lankan software company founded in 2015. This is how one brain became two brands, and why the Sri Lankan one stayed right here.

  1. It didn’t start as Witsberry

    The work began under other names: first iFiHost, then CloudKas.

    In 2014, as iFiHost, it built KattankudyInfo.lk, a popular Tamil news portal for Kattankudy. By January 2016 its counter showed over 486,000 hits.

    Then, in 2015: Kattankudy.lk, among the first mobile-friendly classifieds sites in Kattankudy. Buy1.lk, among the first mobile-friendly online stores in Batticaloa. And NewCeylon.lk, a Tamil news site for Sri Lanka, “The Citizen Media”. News, buying and selling on a phone, in Tamil, before most shops here had a website.

    KattankudyInfo.lk homepage in January 2016: Tamil masthead and news categories, an Android app banner, and a hit counter showing 486,754. Article text is blurred.
    KattankudyInfo.lk, built 2014. Seen January 2016.
    Kattankudy.lk homepage in August 2015: a classifieds search by keyword, location and category, and a grid of ad categories from shops and electronics to jobs and services
    Kattankudy.lk, August 2015.
    Buy1.lk homepage in October 2015: product categories, a Tamil banner, service tiles for bus booking, top up, cakes and gas, and featured grocery products
    Buy1.lk, October 2015.
    NewCeylon.lk homepage in October 2016: red masthead reading Newceylon.lk, The Citizen Media, with Tamil news categories and a New Ceylon TV video box. News text is blurred.
    NewCeylon.lk, built 2015. Seen October 2016.

    Captured from the Internet Archive. All have since closed. News text blurred.

  2. Then it got its name

    On 13 November 2015, Rikaz Zarook gave it the name it would keep: Witsberry. And one stubborn idea: good software should not be a luxury.

    Witsberry built websites, ran digital marketing and wrote software for Sri Lankan businesses. The work grew, and it soon reached clients around the world, and took the company to London.

    And back home, something didn’t sit right.

What we refused to accept

Sri Lankan businesses deserved better.

  • Software built for somewhere else

    Priced in someone else’s currency. Designed for someone else’s shop.

  • Fees that only go up

    Monthly subscriptions that grow every year, for software you never own.

  • Sold, then left behind

    Installed, invoiced, and too often abandoned, with a support number nobody answers.

The textile shop in Batticaloa deserved better. So did the shoe shop in Hambantota and the boutique in Kattankudy. So we built the alternative.

  1. Takku. Quick, in Tamil and in Sinhala.

    In 2025, Witsberry launched Takkufy: a POS and ERP system made here, for here.

    Pay once and own it for life. Keep billing when the internet drops. And when something goes wrong at the counter, a real person is on your screen in minutes, in your language.

    Not cheap software. Good software, at a price that makes sense in rupees.

  2. Then came the harder choice

    Witsberry had become two companies wearing one name. One was building for the world from London. The other belonged to the counters, kitchens and clinics of Sri Lanka. One name couldn’t serve both without shortchanging someone.

    So we split it.

    In November 2026, in its twelfth year, Witsberry changed its logo for the first time and went on as a UK company serving international clients. Its Sri Lankan chapter, Witsberry (Pvt) Ltd, was fully acquired by Takkufy: owned and run by a local team, for local businesses.

One brain, two futures

Same roots. Different roads.

Witsberry

Witsberry, 2015Sri Lanka
The original berry brain, with its green leaf.
Witsberry, 2026London, international
Redrawn on a grid for the world: a circle, a W cut into it, one leaf on the rim.

Takkufy

Takkufy, 2025Sri Lanka
Takkufy’s first logo, at launch.
Takkufy, 2026Sri Lanka
The Witsberry brain Sri Lanka has known since 2015, rewired with circuit traces and crowned with a flash where the leaf used to be.

The brain stays home

Witsberry, 2015Sri Lanka
The berry brain local clients have known since 2015.
Takkufy, 2026Sri Lanka
Kept, not replaced: the same brain, wired for speed, with the flash as its crown.

The legacy didn’t leave the country. It got faster.

That’s why every Takkufy logo still says “A Witsberry company”. It isn’t a footnote. It’s a promise: the same people and the same standards, now answering to you and nobody else.

Still here, still doing it all

Everything Witsberry did here, Takkufy still does

The websites, the marketing and the custom systems Witsberry built for Sri Lankan businesses carry on under Takkufy, with the same people behind them. Takkufy POS sits right beside them.

Digital marketing

Social media pages, posts and ads that bring customers through your door, not just likes.

Facebook and Instagram · TikTok · Google ads

See how it works: Digital marketing

Web design

Fast, mobile-first websites and online shops that look as good as your business is.

Business sites · Online stores · Hosting

See what you get: Web design

ERP systems

Custom systems for stock, purchasing, payroll and accounts, built around how you already work.

Inventory · Payroll · Hotel PMS · Reports

See what it does: ERP systems

We’re not here to sell you a subscription. We’re here to make your business quick.

Takkufy. A Witsberry company.

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