Global trade is under pressure. Tariffs are shifting, ports are jammed, and the cost of delays is rising. Yet most importers are still running their supply chains with email threads and Excel sheets. As supply chains stretch across more borders and vendors, the cracks in this outdated tooling only widen.
We believe this moment, defined by complexity, fragmentation, and volatility, is exactly when intelligent infrastructure wins. That’s why we’re excited to back Nauta, a platform purpose-built to help importers coordinate, automate, and scale their global operations with speed and clarity.
Turning Static Tools into Active Infrastructure
Legacy supply chain systems show you what’s happening. Nauta helps you do something about it. Operators don’t need more static dashboards. They need software that thinks, acts, and adapts.
That’s what Nauta delivers as it is built with logistics business logic built in. It works across modes (ocean, air, rail, truck) and connects to internal systems via API or no-code workflows. Most importantly, it meets importers where they are, onboarding messy data quickly without requiring deep IT integrations.
Nauta helps customers predict delays, spot cost drivers, and automate decisions. With each shipment that flows through the platform, Nauta’s dataset grows more valuable. Over time, it becomes the connective tissue between buyers, brokers, carriers, and internal teams.
Why Fragmentation Hurts More Than Ever
For most importers, managing inbound shipments is a brutal patchwork of emails, spreadsheets, broker portals, freight forwarder systems, and customs paperwork. A single container might touch 5+ counterparties across 3 continents, each with its own format and timeline. Every handoff creates friction, and every delay turns into cost, from detention fees and idle labor to lost sales.
Nauta turns this maze into a single system of action. From PO to final mile, the platform ingests documents, emails, tracking data, and ERP inputs into a unified control layer that acts on the customer’s behalf. In practice, customers are cutting detention fees by 80% and reducing the ETA to ATA gap by more than 5 days.
Nauta goes far beyond visibility and visualization. The platform flags exceptions, re-routes shipments, triggers workflows, and pushes clean data back into source systems.
Built by Founders Who’ve Been There
When we met Valentina Jordan and Rafael Santiago, it was clear they had lived with the problem. Valentina led products at Amazon and Rappi. Rafael ran procurement at the largest food distributor in the Caribbean. They know what it feels like to lose sleep over a stuck container, and they know how to fix it.
Since launching early this year, Nauta has signed 31 customers across 7 countries, including distributors for New Balance, Moët & Chandon, L’Oréal, and Ashley Furniture.
Why We Backed Them
The landscape is only getting harder. With a potential return to Trump-era tariffs, new compliance burdens, and shifting trade lanes, global logistics teams are rethinking everything from sourcing to final-mile. The winners will be those with real-time control and flexible workflows and Nauta is how they’ll get there.
Global trade is undergoing a structural reset. Tariffs, supply chain realignment, and climate disruptions are forcing importers to rebuild their playbooks from scratch. Teams can no longer rely on past partners or predictable flows. They need tools that give them visibility and control across a volatile, multi-party landscape. Nauta doesn’t just sit on top of this shift. It helps operators win within it.
Nauta checks every box we look for:
- An overlooked but massive market
- Pain so deep it breaks teams
- Early evidence of product love
- A founding team with firsthand grit and world-class product instincts
This is the kind of platform that importers will build their operations around.
We’re proud to lead their $7M seed round, alongside Predictive VC and an all-star group of logistics operators and angels.
If you want to help reinvent how global trade moves, Nauta is hiring. Learn more at getnauta.com.