Alchemize

AI-Native Customs Brokerage

San Francisco

2 employees

Pre-seed

About Alchemize

Alchemize is building an AI-native customs brokerage. Importers are currently hindered by legacy brokers relying on manual workflows, where hand-keyed entries and slow tariff research result in preventable shipping delays, lack of visibility, and unnecessary costs. Alchemize automates these workflows, delivering expert-level compliance at software speed.

Company details

Team Size2

LocationSan Francisco

Funding

Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Samuel Fu

Co-Founder of Alchemize (P26). Previously, Sam was a software engineer at Netflix where he scaled their distributed cache to 1 Billion+ req/s, built a native authorization solution in C that saved millions of dollars a year, and authored 2 patents. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.

Robert Hou

Previously the second engineer at Confido (YC S21), where he built AI accounting automation for brands like Baskin-Robbins, Olipop, and Dr. Squatch, scaling from 0 to multi-million ARR.

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.