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Tradeswell Pitch Deck to Raise $3.3m Seed Round

This is the Tradeswell pitch deck to raise a $3.3m seed round in 2020.

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Tradeswell is the operating system for real-time commerce. We’re on a mission to empower growth by making e-commerce actions more informed, more coordinated, faster, and more profitable — for everyone.

Tradeswell does this through our quantitative trading platform that uses real-time algorithms and insights, to reveal and execute the optimal actions companies need to grow. We put the power of data science at the fingertips of our customers, empowering their decision-making and giving them unprecedented control.

Tradeswell does this through our quantitative trading platform that uses real-time algorithms and AI-derived insights, to reveal and execute the optimal actions companies need to grow. We put the power of data science at the fingertips of our customers, empowering their decision-making and giving them unprecedented control.

After adtech and venture capital, media vet Paul Palmieri is taking on e-commerce.

The former founder of mobile ad tech company Millennial Media and VC firm Grit Capital just raised $3.3 million in seed round funding for his latest venture, Tradeswell, from Signalfire and Construct Capital— a real-time e-commerce trading platform that he calls “the Bloomberg terminal for e-commerce.”

Palmieri said he decided to join Tradeswell as CEO based on his experience as a VC investor, when he says he passed on investing in dozens of DTC companies because they had thin margins and their businesses weren’t scalable.

Tradeswell says it gives brands a comprehensive look at their e-commerce business across channels including Amazon, Google, Shopify, and Target by consolidating marketing, retail, inventory, logistics, forecasting, lifetime value and financials across these channels in one platform and automating their insights, actions and decisions using machine learning. This way, they know what to sell to whom, where, and at what price, with visibility into customer data from consultants, third-party platforms, and walled gardens.

Tradeswell is a SaaS company that makes money by licensing its platform.

Tradeswell has e-commerce experts from companies including Verizon and Flywheel Digital and has worked with more than 100 brands over the past 15 months, including Ox Tools, McCormick’s, and Rare Beauty.

For example, Tradeswell claims that a salt-producer brand could improve its forecast accuracy for topline sales from 25% to 70% when it used the platform and realized that it needed to factor in the on-hand inventory from Amazon for the right projections, according to Palmieri. In another use case, a brand may use it to better understand its marketing, optimizing not just for return on ad spend (ROAS) but net margins, he said.

The platform promises to help traditional and DTC brands save millions of dollars in outsourced contracts and tap into the booming e-commerce market in the US by bringing their siloed black boxes of data sitting across sales, marketing, finance and logistics channels on one platform. US e-commerce is set to be worth $1 trillion by 2023, according to a recent report by Insider Intelligence’s eMarketer.

While there are other speciality e-commerce agencies and platforms catering to individual aspects of e-commerce like inventory management platform Skubana, Palmieri said that Tradeswell was the first to unify all these elements.

“E-commerce could be a trillion-dollar opportunity but no one yet has built anything for the benefit of brands,” he said. “Tradeswell is like an AI layer that allows brands that trade goods on multiple channels to have a single platform that serves them — they get not just data, but also the context around that.”

Funding Rounds

Announced Date	Transaction Name	Number of Investors	Money Raised	Lead Investors
Jan 13, 2021	Series A – Tradeswell	4	$15.5M	SignalFire
Jun 4, 2020	Seed Round – Tradeswell	3	$3.3M	SignalFire