AI-native fraud screening and deal orchestration for cross-border trade finance.
DEALEXUS screens trade-finance instruments for fraud before a bank accepts them, and runs the deal that produces them — for the mid-market the bank-consortium platforms never served.
CONFIDENTIAL · FOR PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS
Singapore · Dubai
The problem.
Cross-border trade finance still runs on email, PDFs and trust between strangers.
$2.5T
Unmet trade-finance demand
Unchanged since 2023. 41% of SME applications are rejected, and 60% of rejected trades fail to close.
ADB Global Trade Finance Gap Survey, Jan 2026
~80%
Still on paper, PDF and messaging
60% of corporates and 65% of banks cite manual documentation as their biggest pain point.
JP Morgan Trade Channel · ICC DSI 2024
0
Neutral rails for the mid-market
No structured digital layer serves the pre-bank stage of SBLC and LC deals for SMEs and mid-market firms.
Industry gap
The landscape.
The bank-consortium generation collapsed. One survivor remains — and it serves multinationals, not this market.
Marco Polo
Insolvent · Feb 2023R3 and TradeIX blockchain venture. Consortium governance, no monetisation path.
No shared ledger, no consortium governance.
Contour
Fire-sold twiceLC-only platform. Wound down 2023, resold in 2024 and 2025; rebuilding on stablecoin settlement.
LC-only scope limits adoption.
Komgo
The survivor300+ corporates and 200+ banks across 50 countries. Commodity and enterprise focus — no broker or mandate model.
The benchmark, not the target market.
DEALEXUS
Our playArgus screens every instrument before it reaches a bank. Multi-instrument, mid-market USD 1M–100M deals. Evidenced introduction record. No funds held.
Whitespace: the mid-market pre-bank stage.
Why it is defensible.
Original typology corpus
Twelve named scheme families, 205 weighted pattern terms, 230 linguistic phrase flags and 17 commodity profiles — built from cases, not scraped.
Structural detectors
Checksum, amount-contradiction and identifier-mutation logic that catches defects no keyword match can.
Two patent candidates
The information-barrier mechanism and the document-fraud-detection pipeline.
It compounds
Every instrument screened is a new observation. A competitor starting today starts at zero.
Deterministic where it counts
The engine adjudicates; the model explains. No verdict depends on a model's judgement.
Stated honestly
Sanctions screening runs on public lists. That layer is not proprietary, and we don't claim it is.
Few customers. High value each.
Sized by desk, not by share of flow.
Roadmap.
Three phases, licensing-aware. Settlement is licence-gated and not offered today; DEALEXUS holds no client funds.
MVP · Subscribe
Live- Subscriptions — Access, Deal Desk, Institution — with metered Argus
- SBLC and DLC workspace, steps 1–6 in production
- Digital NCNDA execution
Scale · Advisory
Funded by this raise- Structured advisory layer
- LC variant coverage — red/green clause, usance, back-to-back
- First bank partner onboarded
- Money-services licensing, jurisdiction to be selected
Expand · Settlement rail
Seed milestone- Live SWIFT transmission through a bank partner
- Settlement-linked revenue, once licensed — not offered today
- Secondary market for deal distribution
THE ASK
USD 1M pre-seed on a post-money SAFE, USD 30M cap.
Funding phase 2: advisory, LC variant coverage, the first bank partner and licensing groundwork.
Bring one deal. We'll screen it with you.
Fifteen minutes with a person who knows trade finance. If it isn't a fit, we'll say so.