Secro was founded in 2021 out of a simple belief: global trade deserves better than labor-heavy, unreliable documentary processes.

The idea came from years spent inside the shipping and supply chain industry, where documentation and data was not an abstract problem. It was a daily operational burden: slow, repetitive, high-risk work that added little value but could create serious commercial consequences when something went wrong.

After seeing what modern technology could do at MSC, Amazon and AWS, Secro’s founding team set out to bring that same level of execution, scale, and customer obsession to critical data and trade documents.

With backing from investors including Lightspeed, Secro continued building the trusted infrastructure needed to make digital trade documentation practical in the real world.

Secro was built by people who understand trade from the inside, across shipping, logistics, finance, technology, product, operations, and legal infrastructure. That mix matters because digital trade is not only a technical challenge. Success also depends on process, trust, compliance, and adoption.

The starting point was electronic bills of lading. But the ambition quickly became broader.

Trade is not one document. It is a network of parties, handoffs, approvals, transfers, checks, rights, obligations, and risks. To make digital trade work in the real world, Secro needed to support the wider documentary and data lifecycle across logistics service providers, traders, banks, insurers, and technology partners.

That journey has not been linear. Building new infrastructure rarely is. But the direction has remained consistent: reduce the risk and cost of cross-border trade, while helping companies move faster and operate with greater confidence.