We spent 2024 inside three freight forwarders in Chennai and Mundra, watching operations teams retype the same shipment details into a shipping bill, an e-invoice, a certificate of origin, and two portals that reject silently at 6pm on a Friday.
Nobody in this building has ever been paid to type. We get paid when a container moves.
Kestrel takes the commercial invoice and packing list you already have, derives every downstream document, and files them against ICEGATE and your CHA. When a filing bounces, you get a message that says which field and why — not a status code.
Two founders out of Freightwala and Razorpay, funded by a pre-seed from Blume.
A shipping bill generated and accepted end to end, with no human retyping. Twelve minutes, down from two days.
Sixty pilot exporters across Chennai, Mundra, and Nhava Sheva. Free, hands-on, and noisy in the best way.
Self-serve onboarding, CHA marketplace, and per-shipment pricing.