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Desteia
Desteia is an AI-native platform for global trade that turns the messy, unstructured data of logistics - emails, chat messages, PDFs, customs filings - into a single validated source of truth. Using large language models to read documents and graph theory to model shipments as networks of locations and routes, Desteia gives supply chain operators end-to-end visibility across ocean, ground, and air, with particular depth on the roughly $850B U.S.-Mexico cross-border corridor. Founded in 2023 by former Tesla executive Francoise Lavertu Stevens and Stanford engineers Diego Solorzano and Austin Poore, the New York-based company raised an $8M seed round in early 2025.
Caspian
Caspian is an AI-native global trade advisory platform that helps importers and exporters recover unclaimed import duties and stay compliant as tariff rules shift. Founded in 2024 by ex-Flexport operators Justin Sherlock and Matt Ebeweber, the San Francisco company is a licensed US customs broker and CBP-approved software vendor. Its platform ingests shipping and inventory data to identify eligible duty drawback and refunds, then files the paperwork with US Customs in days rather than months - replacing the spreadsheet-and-email legacy process that leaves billions of dollars unclaimed every year.
Altana
Altana builds the AI-powered network for trusted global trade - a dynamic, intelligent map of the world's supply chains. Using federated machine learning, it connects businesses, the largest logistics providers, and government agencies around a shared, privacy-preserving source of product and supplier intelligence, helping them manage compliance, tariffs, risk, and resilience across multi-tier supply networks.