Maalexi is a blockchain enabled demand-aggregating digital ecosystem that helps small food and agri-businesses directly access cross-border trade, and finance. The platform helps small local exporters, processors, and producers to sell more, and realize better margins, by facilitating their trade with medium and large buyers in international markets, and securing the risks in these complex cross-border trades on its full-stack platform. Deal origination, execution and financing happen at one-place for both – the buyers and sellers engaging in trade, and the financial institutions financing these trades. Maalexi mitigates key trade risks in cross-border trade which include: Counterparty, Demand & Supply, Legal, Quality & Quantity, Document and Delivery, and Payment or Credit, hence making these trades secure, and bankable. Maalexi’s proprietary data analysis processes are augmented with advanced AI and ML applications, secured through blockchain based technologies, and embedded with risk and trade finance management solutions. The platform has reached a level of automation that assures that there are negligible incremental transactional costs for Financial Institutions thereby helping them scale, by executing the smallest trades securely, with requisite due-diligence, and full end-to-end visibility. Maalexi is on a mission to ‘strengthen global food security’ by democratizing cross-border trade and finance for small food and agri-businesses.