trade-compliance
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Delmar International Inc.
Delmar began with customs forms in Montreal. Sixty years later, the family-run forwarder sells something harder to ship: a clear view across the whole supply chain.
20Cube Logistics
20Cube Logistics is a Singapore-based, software-enabled international supply chain orchestrator that moves freight from purchase order to proof of delivery. Founded in 2011 by ex-Agility Logistics executives, it pairs freight forwarding, warehousing, distribution and customs brokerage with MyHubPlus, a proprietary digital platform giving customers real-time shipment visibility, exception management and reporting across 12 countries and 85+ locations.
Terrell Marshall
Terrell Marshall is the founder and CEO of Passage (YC S24), a San Francisco startup building an AI co-pilot for customs brokers and trade compliance teams. Before Passage, he worked on AI products used by more than a billion people at Google, including Google Photos, Google Payments, and Hotels Search, and was a software engineer at Workday. He co-founded Passage with Aditya Nadkarni, a college friend with whom he also holds a patent for an AI physical therapy platform. Passage automates the manual data entry and email correspondence that customs teams spend hours on, pulling data from commercial invoices, bills of lading, and packing lists to pre-fill entry filings and validate compliance.
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.
Pax
Pax is an AI-native customs broker that automates and maximizes U.S. tariff refunds through duty drawback - the CBP program that lets companies recover up to 99% of import duties on goods that are later re-exported, manufactured for export, or destroyed. Founded by MIT PhD Penny Chen and repeat founder Chris Le, Pax pitches itself as 'TurboTax for duty drawback,' using LLM-powered document extraction plus deterministic optimization algorithms to file audit-ready claims in weeks instead of the industry-standard 9-12 months, while recovering roughly 15% more than legacy providers. The company raised a $4.5M seed round in 2025 and is a Y Combinator Summer 2024 company.
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.
Penny Chen
Penny Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Pax, the Y Combinator (S24) startup rebuilding duty drawback - the U.S. program that refunds import tariffs - as an AI-native brokerage. An MIT PhD and former research scientist at Amazon and Flexport, she stumbled on duty drawback while building supply-chain algorithms and saw a math problem hiding inside a bureaucratic one: each year roughly $10-15 billion in eligible refunds go unclaimed because legacy brokers take 10-20% and won't touch claims under $100k. Pax turns the rulebook into algorithms and LLM data extraction, promising a TurboTax-style experience that cuts filing from 9-12 months to a few weeks. The company raised $4.5M in seed funding led by Initialized Capital in April 2025.
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.
Sourcemap: the Supply Chain Mapping Company
Sourcemap is a New York-based enterprise SaaS company that maps global supply chains down to the raw-material origin. Born as a research project at the MIT Media Lab, it gives compliance and sourcing teams end-to-end, verified visibility across multi-tier supplier networks - helping Global 1000 brands meet forced-labor, deforestation, tariff and ESG regulations while reducing disruption risk.
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.
Justin Sherlock
Justin Sherlock is the Co-Founder and CEO of Caspian, an AI-native trade advisory platform tackling the $130 billion in unclaimed duty refunds sitting in global supply chains. A Harvard economist and Wharton MBA, he spent five years at Flexport scaling its financing arm past $1 billion before going out to build what he saw was missing: automated customs intelligence that actually gets importers their money back.