Skyocean. IT’S MONEY. We do the complicated part.
Your institution can finance global trade through a lending agreement with Skyocean, without building its own trading operation.
How it works
Your institution lends to Skyocean under a trade finance agreement.
The lending agreement, structured as a loan to Skyocean.
We buy the goods and ship them.
We hold title until the buyer pays.
The buyer pays into a controlled account.
The agreement sets the return, repayment terms and contractual protections.
Every step is recorded as it happens.
You can inspect the trade records yourself or have your AI examine them.
For institutions, including family offices and corporate treasuries. Participation is subject to eligibility screening and individually agreed terms. Individual participation in trades is planned for Phase 2 and is not open. Nothing on this site is an offer. To discuss financing or investing in Skyocean, talk to us.
Where we are
Platform
The platform is built and its reference audit is published.
Corridors
Pilot corridors are Sudan and Ghana, with a signed three-year framework with the Republic of Sudan’s Investment Encouragement Commission.
Headquarters
The group headquarters, Skyocean Lithuania UAB, is in formation.
Trades
The first funded trades are ahead. Each will publish its own audit file.
Who takes the money
Every hand a cargo passes through adds costs. We eliminate the unnecessary ones.
Illustrative: one shipment of wheat
An illustrative bank-financed trade
Letter of credit, through three banks. Each runs its own compliance checks and charges its own fee.
Advising bankChecks the credit and passes it to the exporter.
Confirming bankAdds its own payment undertaking, for a fee.
Issuing bankIssues the credit for the importer and examines the documents.
secures the purchase
Exporterproduces and sells the goods
Intermediary traderbuys and resells, adding its margin
Importerimports and resells, adding its margin
Distributordistributes
Broker, where usedArranges the deal between the exporter and the trader, for a commission.
The same trade with Skyocean
Your institutionProvides financing to Skyocean.
finances the purchase
Producerproduces and sells the goods
Skyoceantrades as principal and imports through its local entity
Distributordistributes
Retained in both structures: freight, customs duties, insurance and independent inspection. They are operating costs, not savings.
Your institution finances the trade. Skyocean buys and sells as principal and takes responsibility for running the trade.
The diagram shows commercial roles, not every service a shipment uses. Lending carries risk; the terms, protections and risks are set out in the trade finance agreement.
| Layer | Conventional | With Skyocean | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broker | A commission, where a broker is used | Skyocean buys from the exporter directly | Removed |
| Intermediary trader and importer | Two resellers, each adding its margin | Skyocean trades as principal and imports through its local entity, with one margin | Combined |
| Issuing, advising and confirming banks | Issuance, advising and confirmation fees, and a separate compliance review at each bank | Your trade finance agreement funds the purchase directly. Payments still move through banks | Removed |
| Financing | The cost of the importer’s bank financing | Your return, set in the agreement | Retained |
| Freight, customs, insurance, inspection | Paid | Paid | Retained |
Removed and combined apply to the illustrated structure, not automatically to every Skyocean trade.
See a full trade fileInternational trade still runs on paper that can be faked, delayed, or bought. Financiers cannot verify a trade, so they will not fund it, and $2.5 trillion of legitimate trade goes unfinanced every year, most of it in the emerging markets that need it most.
Source: Asian Development Bank.
For institutions of every kind
Family offices
A trade finance agreement with a set term and set protections, without building a trading desk.
Corporate treasuries
Lending into physical goods for a defined term, with every shipment’s file open to your finance team.
Funds and asset managers
A lending line into real trades, with the full trade file to show your committee.
Banks and licensed intermediaries
Corridors your desk has left, with Skyocean as principal and the record open to your auditors.
Other eligible organisations
Organisations outside the categories above can also explore financing trades with Skyocean, subject to eligibility and individually agreed terms.
Producers and SMEs
We buy and sell as principal, so you trade with one counterparty and every step of the shipment is on file.
NGOs and humanitarian organisations
We seek NGO partners for an at-cost, no-profit donation supply-chain service, supported by our system and an auditable record of procurement and delivery.
Planned, not open
Individual participation. Phase 2.
Trade finance has been a closed room, open to banks and large institutions. We intend to open it further. Individual participation in trades is planned for Phase 2, once the required authorisation is in place. It is not open today, and nothing on this site is an offer.
Check it yourself
The audit console.
Every trade produces a full file: documents, port and customs messages, payments, cross-checked against each other and against the authorities that issued them. Our reference audit is open at audit.skyocean.io. No account, no login.
Open the reference auditSIM-003 is a reference simulation: a real trade structure with every party, figure and identifier substituted so the complete report can be public.
The checks are deterministic. There is no machine learning in the audit path, so anyone can recompute the result instead of trusting it.
Any AI agent can read our trades.
Ask us howBring your AI.
Copy this, edit the brackets, paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or whichever you use.
I am a [role]. I [do / do not] have a technical background. Read all the data published at skyocean.io/foryourai and re-fetch if your first read is truncated, then tell me what this company does.
We stand behind the data we publish here, though not behind what a model concludes from it. AI makes mistakes, and anything it tells you about us is worth checking against the source, or book a call!
Who we are
- Founder
Sebastian Gonzalez
Chief Executive Officer. Founder. Fifteen years in physical cross-border trade.
- Engineering
Gaurav Yadav
Head Engineer.
- Ghana
Elias Nartey
PR and Communications, Ghana.
- Sudan
Mustafa Alhamare
Sudan.
- Advisor
Andrius Petkevicius
Advisor.
- Join us
You can be here.
We are expanding the team as the trades start.
Questions
Verifiable trade finance infrastructure that acts as principal. We finance essential goods into markets banks have left, and we make every trade verifiable.
Your institution earns the return specified in its trade finance agreement with Skyocean. The agreement defines the financing term, repayment conditions and contractual protections. Eligibility and terms are discussed directly.
Institutions, including those outside commodity finance. Individuals: planned for Phase 2, not open today. To discuss investing in Skyocean itself, talk to us.
Yes. Your trade records are published as structured records on a public knowledge graph, with their provenance. An agent can query them the same way an auditor reads them, and sees what an auditor is entitled to see.
Yes. Access is controlled by role. Sensitive commercial fields stay private while verifiable summaries remain available to the parties that need them. We adhere to EU data protection regulations, including the GDPR.
Individual participation in trades is planned for Phase 2 and is not open today. When Phase 2 approaches we will publish the structure and the applicable regulatory framework. Today, institutions can finance our trades. Nothing on this site is an offer; to discuss financing or investing in Skyocean, talk to us.
See the reference audit at audit.skyocean.io. The pre-production platform is open to explore in your browser at staging.skyocean.io. The detail behind this page is in our company data. Or just talk to us about financing our trades, our equity round, supplying or buying, or a partnership.