Private commodity trade finance
Make more commodity trades financeable.
CARTHO brings buyers, suppliers, private capital and trusted trade infrastructure together around real mid-market cargo opportunities — creating a clearer path from commercial deal to funded trade.
Built for $0.5M–$5M cargo opportunities. Deal by deal. Private by design.
Buyer
Sees the opportunity
Supplier
Needs confidence
Capital
Needs clarity
Infrastructure
Makes it executable
One real cargo opportunity
becomes a funded trade
- $0.5M–$5M
- Mid-market cargo opportunities
- 4
- Active trade corridors
- 15
- Network participants onboarded
- 5–7 days
- Typical path to a decision
Corridors and participants reflect the current operating network; each corridor is anchored by executed cargo experience and signed banking channels.
The opportunity banks leave between the lines
Good trades are lost when capital and operations cannot move together.
Mid-market commodity buyers can see the cargo, the supplier and the margin — yet still miss the trade. The ticket may be too small for a global bank, too complex for a generic lender or too urgent for a traditional approval cycle. Suppliers want stronger payment confidence. Capital wants clearer evidence. Every participant is ready, but the operating layer between them is missing.
- 01The buyer sees an opportunity.
- 02The supplier needs confidence.
- 03Capital needs a financeable structure.
CARTHO operates the layer that brings them together.
One network around one real trade
From cargo opportunity to financeable deal.
CARTHO starts with the trade itself: the commodity, counterparties, route, economics and evidence. Around that opportunity, CARTHO brings together the transaction structure, private capital and institutional services needed to move toward funding and settlement.
Real cargo
The opportunity begins with a real commodity trade, not a financial abstraction.
Deal-by-deal capital
Capital can evaluate the trade it is supporting.
Institutional evidence
The cargo story, documents and counterparties become part of one financeable narrative.
Repeatable network
Every completed cycle strengthens the next one.
The result is not simply another source of capital. It is a better way for trade and capital to meet.
One cargo. Six gates. One disciplined cycle.
One ring-fenced vehicle per cargo. A 75–120 day cycle discipline. Hard gates on identity, cargo, papers and funds — and the platform is paid last in the settlement waterfall.
- 01
Deal intake
Buyer, supplier, cargo, route and documents — the source of truth starts before financing.
- 02
KYB / KYC & sanctions
Counterparty verification, UBO checks and sanctions screening with hard stops.
- 03
Deal vehicle & escrow
A ring-fenced, corridor-specific vehicle per cargo, with controlled escrow release gates.
- 04
Cargo & documents
Inspection, eBL / title documents and warehouse evidence tracked end to end.
- 05
Monitoring
Cargo status, document state and exception flags through the whole 75–120 day cycle.
- 06
Settlement waterfall
Participants first, platform last — a documented, auditable settlement order.
Every completed trade strengthens the network behind the next one.
Value for every side of the trade
One network. A different win for every participant.
Strategic partner
Add commodity-finance depth without rebuilding the operating layer.
Build a channel with CARTHORisk partner
Underwrite a clearer trade.
Infrastructure provider
Connect specialist capability to repeat real-world flow.
Equity investor
Back the network that compounds with every completed cycle.
Advisor
Help define the institutional standard for the category.
For commodity buyers and traders
The next trade should not wait for yesterday's financing model.
When the supplier is ready and the commercial window is open, waiting weeks for a decision can destroy the opportunity. CARTHO is designed to turn a complete cargo story into a clearer, faster path toward financeability — helping buyers preserve liquidity, strengthen their position with suppliers and pursue more volume.
More trading capacity
Pursue opportunities beyond the limits of current balance sheet.
A stronger supplier story
Bring a more credible path to funds and settlement.
One operating counterpart
Reduce the burden of assembling capital and transaction infrastructure separately.
For suppliers
Sell more without financing the buyer yourself.
CARTHO helps turn buyer demand into a stronger funded settlement story, giving suppliers greater confidence to engage new counterparties and release more cargo.
For capital
Put capital behind a trade you can understand.
CARTHO gives capital partners a deal-level view of the real commodity opportunity, creating a more direct connection between allocation, evidence and settlement.
The supplier wants confidence. Capital wants clarity. CARTHO gives both sides a reason to move.
Anatomy of a CARTHO trade
Brazil to Tianjin. 2,052 tonnes. One completed cycle.
A CARTHO-executed copper concentrate transaction moved 2,052 metric tonnes from a Brazilian mine to a buyer in Tianjin. Approximately $1.86M was deployed across a 75-day cycle, producing $72.7K in net return on the executed transaction.
- 2,052 t
- Copper concentrate moved
- ~$1.86M
- Deployed across the cycle
- 75 days
- Executed transaction cycle
- ~$72.7K
- Net return on the executed transaction
The transaction shows the cargo, document and settlement journey every CARTHO trade follows — the same disciplined cycle the network runs across its corridors today.
A representative transaction from the network's flow; each trade is evaluated on its own cargo, corridor, counterparties and economics.
Vertical depth creates the advantage
Built around commodity trade, not adapted to it later.
| Alternative | Where it starts | CARTHO advantage |
|---|---|---|
| Bank | Relationship, balance sheet and standard process | Starts with selected opportunities the standard process leaves behind |
| Factor | Receivable | Starts with the full cargo transaction |
| Trade-finance fund | Portfolio or established mandate | Creates a deal-by-deal operating and capital network |
| Generic RWA platform | Financial asset and token wrapper | Starts with commodity operations, evidence and settlement |
| Direct private deal | Individual relationships and manual coordination | Builds repeatability and a network around each completed cycle |
CARTHO's edge is not simply capital. It is the operating depth required to make difficult trades understandable, financeable and repeatable.
The market is ready for a new operating layer.
- 01
Banks have moved up-market.
Mid-market commodity flows remain underserved.
- 02
Trade evidence is becoming digital.
Electronic documents and better data make transaction-level visibility more practical.
- 03
Private capital wants real-economy opportunities.
Investors are looking beyond generic credit and financial wrappers.
- 04
Institutional rails are ready to connect.
Banking, custody, insurance and settlement providers can support new models without one company owning every layer.
CARTHO sits where those shifts meet.
An operating network
Trades move through the network today.
Executed transactions
Real cargo, documents and settlement — executed end to end through the network.
Four active trade corridors
Routes with verified counterparties, logistics and settlement paths in operation.
Fifteen network participants
Buyers, suppliers, capital partners and banks transacting inside the network.
Proven execution model
The same disciplined cycle repeats across corridors, trade after trade.
CARTHO operates as a market participant in its own right — structuring, executing and settling trades alongside the buyers, suppliers, capital partners and banks in the network, with a growing flow of transactions moving through it.
Commodity corridors
- Copper concentrate
- Coffee
- Fertilizer
- Grain & agri
- Specialty metals
Focused enough to execute. Ambitious enough to scale.
CARTHO operates private, deal-by-deal commodity finance for professional participants. The focus is deliberate: real cargo, selected corridors, clear counterparties and repeatable trade cycles. The network grows on executed volume — every corridor it opens is one it runs exceptionally well.
Enter the network where you create the most value
Bring the next piece of the trade.
Capital partners
Bring an allocation mandate and the evidence you need to move.
Shape the capital mandateStrategic partners
Bring client access, corridor knowledge or institutional infrastructure.
Build a channel with CARTHOThe next generation of commodity finance will be built one real trade at a time.
CARTHO brings participants, evidence and capital together every day — as an operator in the market, focused on the mid-market trades that deserve a better path forward.
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