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Make the world
one market

Every major trade breakthrough collapsed a layer of complexity to create a step change in economic growth. The last frontier is compliance. Sphere automates tax compliance for the $200T+ in goods and services that crosses borders every year.

Sailing Routes
Sailing Routes
~3000 BCE
Opened intercontinental trade via predictable ocean highways
Lloyd's of London
Lloyd's of London
1688
Pooled risk unlocked the ~$7.4T global insurance market
railroads
Railroads
1830
Moved goods at 10x speed, opened continental interiors
telegraph
Telegraph
1844
First time information moved faster than goods, enabled real-time price discovery
containerization
containerization
1956
~90% shipping cost reduction, ~790-1,240% bilateral trade increase over 15-20 years
swift
Swift
1973
Standardized cross-border bank messaging, now processes ~$150T+ annually
hs codes
HS Codes
1988
Universal product classification, 98% of global trade classified under it
stripe
Stripe
2009
Abstracted payment complexity into an API, processes $1T+ annually
sphere
Sphere
2024
Collapsing transaction costs by automating cross-border payment compliance.

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Compliance is the last unsolved layer

It’s a complex adaptive system and it resists every attempt to simplify it.

There are 190+ sovereign countries writing trade rules that reflect their values, policies, and culture. These rules change constantly and react to each other. The system is bottoms-up, unpredictable and complex by design.

People have traditionally treated this as a lookup problem, or thrown lawyers at it. Both approaches break at scale. We built TRAM.

Read our whitepaper

Our Founding Team

Our core team has extensive experience in finance, accounting and tax.

Nick Rudder
CEO
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Alex Bowcut
Head of Engineering
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Kaitlyn Foroud
Global Tax Lead
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Scott Lowe
Founding Engineer
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David Nisenbaum
Founding Engineer
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Jack Davies
Founding Engineer
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Mohammad Rashid
Operations Associate
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Nishant Raman
Senior Backend Engineer
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Andrew Hendricks
Founding AE
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What we've built so far

We're ~50 people building infrastructure that will touch billions of transactions.
Every new hire changes the company. Let's build the next layer together.

100
+

Integrations with tax authorities globally

$ Billions

Transaction value processed

30%
+

MoM revenue growth

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Trade breakthroughs are built by outsiders

Shipping containers were invented by a trucker, not a shipping executive. Stripe was built by two brothers from Ireland, not a bank.
Join us and be part of something extraordinary.

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