Investors

A category-defining trade operating system for South Asia.

Import Assistant is building the operating layer for India → Bangladesh trade — a corridor moving billions of dollars a year on paper, WhatsApp and Excel. We are raising a seed round to expand engineering and open the Chattogram sea lane.

IN → BD
Corridor
Seed
Stage
17
Pipeline stages
Dhaka, BD
HQ

Thesis

The India–Bangladesh corridor moves roughly USD 16B / year but runs on manual paperwork, WhatsApp coordination and Excel reconciliation. A single, auditable operating system collapses lead time, unlocks financing and creates the first defensible data layer on top of the corridor.

What we've built

17-phase pipeline covering RFQ → quotation → PO → warehouse → export → customs → BD delivery → invoicing → finance close. RLS-enforced multi-tenant portals for suppliers and customers. AI voice agent. Audit-first architecture with tamper-evident activity log.

Why now

Bangladesh customs digitisation, cross-border UPI-adjacent rails, and post-pandemic nearshoring have turned the corridor into an execution problem, not a policy problem. Whoever owns the operating layer owns pricing power on freight, finance and data.

Use of funds

Engineering (60%): platform, integrations, mobile. Ops (25%): Kolkata warehouse, Chattogram operations. GTM (15%): enterprise sales, supplier onboarding.

Investor contact

Request the deck

Reach the founding team directly at mail@sojibahmmed.com. We reply within one business day.