The gap in the middle
SME importers, exporters and brokers run trades on free Excel and WhatsApp — or nothing. Purpose-built CTRM systems start near €100k/yr with 12–18-month rollouts. Nobody built for the desks in between. Now someone has.
Founder-led · Hong Kong company · EU operations
We're the calm in the middle of the deal
Our mission is to make every cross-border commodity deal execute with the structure, proof, and safety that today only the largest houses can afford — so any two businesses, anywhere, can close a trade in days.
Non-custodial by design · Design Partner Program now open
Mission & vision
A world where the deal completes on evidence, not on faith
Commodity trade is high-stakes, high-trust, and mostly run on nerve, relationships, and improvised paperwork. Dealium is the neutral system that stands between the two parties — structuring the terms, verifying the counterparty, controlling the money, and holding the record.
Mission. Make every cross-border commodity deal execute with the structure, proof, and safety that today only the largest houses can afford.
Vision. Any two businesses, anywhere, can close a trade in days — knowing exactly what was agreed, who they're dealing with, and that the money moves only when the terms are met.
What we believe
Five values, enforced in the product
- Neutral by default. We don't take sides; we enforce what both parties agreed. Buyer and seller see the same version, the same record.
- Never hold the money. Safety is architectural, not promised. Dealium instructs licensed rails; funds never touch our books.
- Evidence over trust. Every state, document, and decision is recorded on an append-only trail. The record is the referee.
- Human-decided, AI-assisted. The copilot checks and flags; people decide. Models run self-hosted, and every AI action is audited.
- Open and portable. You're a customer, not a hostage. EU-hosted, standards-native, and built so your data can leave when you do.
Why now
The SME middle is underserved, and the tailwinds just turned
The tools stop at the two extremes. The regulation is arriving. And the last wave's mistake is finally clear.
Regulation as a tailwind
EUDR (2023/1115) and CBAM push traceability and evidence onto every EU-facing supply chain. MLETR and the UK's ETDA make electronic trade documents legally equivalent to paper. Evidence-first infrastructure is becoming mandatory, not optional.
The lesson from the last wave
The bank consortia and blockchain trade networks — Contour, we.trade, Marco Polo — needed the whole industry to join before anyone got value, and they stalled waiting. Dealium needs no consortium and no chain. The last wave needed the whole industry to join. We need one broker.
Market and regulatory context; framed as industry background, not as Dealium results.
The team
Built by people who ran the trades
Dealium is founder-led, built by people with a background in cross-border commodity trading, maritime and agribusiness. We lived the email-Excel-WhatsApp deal, the payment that moved before the proof, the dispute that dragged for months. We are the customer.
That's why the product is opinionated in the ways that matter to a desk — neutral between the two sides, non-custodial with the money, and evidence-first at every step — and deliberately small everywhere else. We're building the founding team now, close to real deals.
- Domain-first. Trade, maritime and agribusiness experience in the room, not bolted on later.
- EU-hosted, Barcelona-based. Data stays in the EU; the stack is open-source and portable.
- Design-partner-led. We build around a small founding cohort of brokers and desks running live trades.
Yegor Shkoda
Co-Founder & CEO
Two decades leading commodity-trading and maritime businesses across Europe and Asia. Founder-CEO of an agri-commodity trader scaled past $100M turnover, and previously of a $600M+-turnover agricultural holding spanning crushing, farmland, vessels and port operations. He has lived the deals Dealium is built for.
Commodity tradingMaritimeAgribusiness
Rajkumar Surisetti
Co-Founder & CTO
25+ years across global banking, trading and AI, and a PhD in computer vision (University of Sydney). He architected the Dealium platform end to end — the deal engine, the non-custodial payment-control plane, and the self-hosted AI — and previously founded and ran a Hong Kong software company.
Platform architectureApplied AITrading systems
Dealium is operated by DEALIUMAI LIMITED, a Hong Kong company (no. 80235730), working from the EU.
We speak the language of trade
Incoterms 2020
GAFTA / FOSFA
UCP 600
DCSA Track & Trace
EUDR 2023/1115
CBAM
MLETR / ETDA
OFAC / EU / UN sanctions
Standards fluency is our authority, not borrowed logos. The platform is built to be standards-native from the data model up.
Careers
We're building the founding team
Roles will open as we grow — engineering, trade operations, and go-to-market. There are no open listings yet, and we'd rather not post ones we can't yet fill honestly.
If you've run physical commodity deals, built money-adjacent infrastructure, or want to help shape a neutral, non-custodial trade platform from the ground floor, we'd like to hear from you. Reach out and tell us what you'd want to build.
No open listings yet
Areas we'll hire into
- Engineering. Backend, frontend, and applied AI on a standards-native trade platform.
- Trade operations. People who've run KYB, logistics, and settlement on real deals.
- Go-to-market. Broker-led distribution and design-partner success.
We'll post real roles here as they open. No placeholders, no ghost listings.
Let's talk about your next deal
We're onboarding a founding cohort of brokers and trading desks. Bring one live trade; we'll run it with you, free. Or just reach out to compare notes on where the deal goes wrong.
DEALIUMAI LIMITED (Hong Kong) · EU operations · EU-hosted · Non-custodial by design