New York’s Pivot Investment Partners backs London’s Traydstream in the latest funding round to hinting at a bigger transformation underway in the trade finance industry globally. Read inside to know more about it.
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London-based Traydstream, a company specialising in trade finance technology, has secured $11M (approximately €9.3M) in an interim fundraise led by Pivot Investment Partners with strong participation from e& capital.
Based in New York, Pivot Investment Partners is an investment firm that collaborates with founders to develop new financial technology companies.
Pivot Investment Partners invests in companies working to improve financial services infrastructure and technology for global markets.
Dinkar Jetley, Managing Partner at Pivot Investment Partners, says, “Traydstream is at the very forefront of trade automation. The management team combines exceptional trade domain expertise with world-class technology skills, united by a passion for transformation. With its deep engagement with banks globally, the firm is uniquely positioned to redefine trade finance.”
“We are especially excited by the synergy between trade processing and trade finance—by enabling supplier and trade financing alongside real-time distribution for banks, Traydstream is solving some of the industry’s most pressing and practical challenges,” adds Jetley.
The company will use the funds to accelerate global expansion, enhance AI-driven trade finance solutions, and further digitise and automate trade processes for banks and corporates across 66 countries.
Traydstream: Simplifying trade finance
Led by Sameer Sehgal, Traydstream focuses on Trade Finance Technology.
The UK company develops software to streamline and simplify the lengthy and complex processes in Trade Finance, aiming for safer and more efficient transactions globally.
The platform is cloud-based and digitises Trade Finance documents, extracting data and validating it against a broad library of Trade Rules and Compliance checks through machine learning.
The company is on a mission to simplify and enhance Trade Finance processing.
Sameer Sehgal, CEO of Traydstream, comments, “Trade finance is at a true inflection point. With our presence in 66 countries, doubling transaction volumes annually, and a suite of recently launched products, from Distribution, Supplier and Sales Finance to Enhanced Compliance and Analytics—we are perfectly positioned to turbocharge transformation for banks and corporates worldwide. This fundraiser gives us the engine to keep scaling while deepening our ML, agentic, and GenAI capabilities across the global trade ecosystem.”
