Pax

AI Broker for Tariff Refunds

Y CombinatorSummer 2024ActiveB2BSupply Chain and Logistics

What they do

Problem

Most eligible tariff refunds via duty drawback go unclaimed because the process is complex, opaque, and burdensome to manage.

Solution

An AI-native brokerage platform that automates duty drawback filings and trade compliance while maximizing tariff refund recovery.

Who it's for

Enterprises that import/export goods and need to recover duties and manage trade compliance operations.

Founders

Penny Chen

Founder & CEO

Penny is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pax AI. She has designed and built algorithms for pricing, forecasting, fulfillment, and capacity planning to optimize workflows, costs, and quality across logistics and supply chain. She has extensive experience driving projects at MIT, Flexport, and Amazon, addressing real-world problems through a mixture of AI/ML, statistics, and optimization.

Chris Le

Founder

Chris is the Co-Founder and CTO of Pax AI. Before Pax AI, Chris worked on scaling up Amazon's supply chain network where he was introduced to the logistics space. After Amazon, Chris built the TikTok E-Commerce merchant systems from 0-1 and took that learning to build Kyros, a live streaming e-commerce platform in Singapore. Most recently, Chris built the financial rewards and billing systems at Brex.

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