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TradeDoc.AI, a female-founded, Singapore-based tradetech developing AI-powered trade document automation, has secured a pre-seed investment from GTR Ventures, the venture arm of Global Trade Review.
The investment was announced at GTR MENA in Dubai, where TradeDoc.AI co-founder and chief technology officer Natalia Feshakova spoke on the practical challenges of trade digitisation.
The funding will support early commercial pilots and continued product development.
TradeDoc.AI was founded in 2025. It helps organisations reduce manual errors, improve turnaround times and increase confidence in trade documentation before submission to banks or compliance systems.
Most enterprise workflows, including enterprise resource planning, payments and customer relationship management, have already been digitised, the company said.
However, trade documentation remains largely manual. Cross-document validation, in particular, continues to rely on fragmented PDFs, email chains, and human checks.
Human error is responsible for an estimated 50% to 70% of letter of credit discrepancies, triggering payment delays across approximately US$35tn in annual trade flows.
These delays affect banks, traders, logistics providers, and insurers alike, increasing operational costs and fraud exposure.
Groups such as the International Chamber of Commerce and the World Trade Organization have created international standards, but enforcement remains inconsistent across systems and geographies.
TradeDoc.AI addresses this gap by applying AI to automate document ingestion, data extraction, and cross-document consistency checks across core trade documents, including invoices, bills of lading, packing lists, certificates of origin and letters of credit.
Rather than replacing existing systems, TradeDoc.AI operates as a lightweight, standards-aligned layer that integrates into current trade and compliance workflows.
It is designed to surface inconsistencies early, before documents enter banking, customs or risk systems.
The technology supports multilingual trade documentation and, through AI-driven extraction and validation, targets accuracy levels of 95% and above, while keeping humans in the loop for review and exception handling where required.
“Our starting point was very pragmatic,” said Feshakova. “Trade breaks when documents don’t match. We built TradeDoc.AI to catch those issues early – before delays, rejections or disputes occur.”
GTR Ventures’ investment reflects its focus on infrastructure technologies that address persistent inefficiencies in global trade operations.
“Documentation errors remain one of the most common and costly sources of friction in trade,” said Kelvin Tan, co-founder and chief investment officer of GTR Ventures.
“TradeDoc.AI is tackling a very real problem with a focused approach and a team that understands how trade actually works. This is the type of early-stage innovation we look to support.”
The pre-seed funding will allow TradeDoc.AI to expand pilot programmes with exporters, logistics providers and financial institutions, while continuing to refine accuracy, integrations, and standards alignment.
GTR Ventures is the world’s first venture-building and investment platform specialised in trade and supply chain.
In partnership with Global Trade Review, GTRV operates from London and Singapore with access to a network of over 60,000 decision makers in trade, supply chain, trade finance, treasury and insurance across five continents.