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The Freight Forwarder That Wants to Make Shipping Feel Boring
Global trade still runs on phone calls, spreadsheets and anxious follow-ups. Cogoport is packaging the messy middle - rates, bookings, customs, tracking, insurance and credit - into one operating layer for smaller businesses.
The Checkout Button That Smuggles Simplicity Across Borders
Tiendamia built a storefront around the least glamorous parts of global shopping: duties, documents, freight and the anxious wait for a parcel. Its real product is not the billion-item catalog - it is the feeling that the border has disappeared.
Passage
Passage is an AI co-pilot for customs brokers and freight forwarders that automates the tedious paperwork of clearing imported goods. Founded in 2024 by former Google and Flexport engineers Terrell Marshall and Aditya Nadkarni, and backed by Y Combinator's S24 batch, the software reads commercial invoices, bills of lading, and packing lists, checks them for consistency, classifies products under HTSUS tariff codes, drafts filings, and handles routine email correspondence - work that entry writers otherwise do by hand for hours each day.
Sam Tyagi
Sam Tyagi is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and the founder, CEO and chairman of KlearNow.AI, an AI-powered platform that digitizes customs clearance and drayage to make global supply chains clearer, faster and cheaper. Before KlearNow he built and exited three IT integration companies, including Softline and Systech, and he is a managing partner at Argean Capital. He often frames his mission as bringing to customs clearance what Uber brought to transportation.
Salasa | سلاسة
Salasa is a Riyadh-based end-to-end e-commerce fulfillment and logistics platform. Founded in 2017, it gives online merchants a single stack for warehousing, order fulfillment, domestic and cross-border shipping, bonded zones, returns, and dark-store-powered two-hour delivery, connected through an OMS and API integrations with platforms like Salla, Zid, Shopify and Amazon and more than 40 carriers. The company has fulfilled tens of millions of orders for over 1,000 merchants and raised roughly $40 million to build a tech-first logistics network across Saudi Arabia and the GCC.
KlearNow.AI
KlearNow.AI is a San Jose-based logistics-as-a-service company using AI and machine learning to digitize customs clearance, drayage and trade-document workflows. Its patented data-ingestion engine turns unstructured paperwork into compliant filings in seconds, and its platform now serves more than 1,000 organizations across the U.S., U.K., Canada, India, Spain and the Netherlands.
Rick Tellez
Rick Tellez is the Co-Founder of KlearNow.AI, an AI-powered platform digitizing customs clearance and trade compliance for importers, freight forwarders, and customs brokers. Drawing on 20+ years of logistics expertise at DHL, Tellez co-founded KlearNow in 2018 to automate the manual, error-prone paperwork that bottlenecks global trade. The company has raised $69 million in funding, serves over 1,000 organizations, and generates $26.8M in annual recurring revenue.