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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.
Diego Solorzano
Diego Solorzano is the co-founder and co-CEO of Desteia, a New York and Mexico City based startup that uses artificial intelligence and graph theory to turn the messy reality of global trade - emails, chat messages, and PDFs - into a live map of where goods actually are. A Stanford-trained engineer, he is building command-center software for the chaotic $850-billion-a-year U.S.-Mexico trade corridor, has raised $11.5 million total including an $8 million seed round, and counts retailers like Elektra among early users. He also hosts the Supply Chain Optimizers podcast.