AUSTIN, Texas - TelAve -- AUSTIN, Texas - GingerControl, an AI infrastructure company for global trade compliance, today announced a $2.1 million pre-seed round led by London-based Backed VC. The capital will scale engineering and accelerate adoption of the company's AI compliance suite among importers, customs brokers, and trade attorneys.

Cofounders Chen Cui and Sean met as kids in West Auckland, New Zealand. Cui grew up in his family's import/export business before moving into biotech and business intelligence software. GingerControl emerged from roughly 200 conversations across the supply chain, where three patterns surfaced repeatedly: classification was consuming 20 to 40 percent of a compliance team's week, tariff stacking had outgrown spreadsheets, and senior compliance expertise was retiring faster than software could capture it.

"The legal reasoning that brokers and trade attorneys charge hundreds of dollars an hour for has never been encoded into software," said Cui, cofounder and CEO. "AI is finally good enough to do that encoding, and the window is open right now."

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GingerControl's suite covers the full compliance lifecycle. The HTS Classification engine, at 96 percent accuracy, applies a proprietary General Rules of Interpretation reasoning system with essential character analysis, Carborundum factor evaluation, FTA qualification, PGA flagging, tariff stacking, and AD/CVD logic. Product Sandbox enables mass re-classification for outdated ERP catalogs. Tariff Sandbox supports tariff engineering for duty reduction. Customs Post-Entry Auditor reviews historical entries for refund opportunities. 24/7 Tariff Monitoring tracks regulation changes worldwide, customizable to industry or HTS code. Export controls including ECCN, ITAR, restricted party screening, and license screening are built in.

GingerControl is hiring engineers, compliance specialists, and design partners. Full story at https://gingercontrol.com/blog/gingercontrol-2-1m-pre-seed-raise.

About GingerControl

GingerControl is AI infrastructure for global trade compliance. Headquartered in Austin, Texas. Learn more at https://gingercontrol.com.

About Backed VC

Backed VC is a London-based early-stage venture firm. It led GingerControl's seed round.

Media Contact: hello@gingercontrol.com