MarkIt

Importing goods across borders sounds simple until you actually have to do it. The paperwork alone can run hundreds of pages, customs regulations change weekly depending on which country you're dealing with, and one classification error can cost you thousands in fines or get your shipment stuck at port for months. MarkIt is building the data layer for global trade compliance—the infrastructure that handles the messy parts of import workflows so you don't have to guess which form goes where.

If you've ever tried to import a product into the US, EU, or basically anywhere else, you know the pain: harmonized system codes, country of origin rules, tariff calculations, embargo checks, anti-dumping duties. It's a nightmare that most ERPs handle about as well as a flip phone. MarkIt wants to fix that by being the compliance backbone that connects to whatever systems importers already use.

Trade is the backbone of the global economy, and compliance is the tax you pay to play. MarkIt is going after one of the most unsexy but absolutely critical problems in international commerce—if they pull it off, every customs broker and importer on the planet will need what they're selling.