AI-driven Data Solutions for Success in GLobal TRade

Hurricane’s solutions enable our customers to succeed in  global trade.

We do this through our AI-driven data technology which removes customs barriers and ensures the frictionless movement of goods around the world.

Why Hurricane Commerce

250,000+

MERCHANTS
SUPPORTED

480 million+

TARIFF & COMPLIANCE
DATA POINTS

190+

COUNTRIES FOR TARIFFS,
CURRENCIES & LANGUAGES

> 1,000

TIMES FASTER THAN
MANUAL PROCESSES

How we do it

Hurricane’s award-winning APIs are trusted by major companies trading globally.

Unique Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform

Lightning quick, flexible APIs

Breadth & Depth of Content and Data

Accuracy rates of up to 99%

Our Story

We have built a business that meets the cross-border data requirements of customers across the world.

In 2016, our six founders, with over 250 years’ combined experience in logistics and global trade, came together to create Hurricane Commerce.

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Global trade was growing at unprecedented levels, presenting vast opportunities for retailers, brands, marketplaces, carriers, postal operators and everyone else in the end-to-end supply chain.

Our Story Down Arrow

Ensuring the smooth movement of parcels from one destination to another required true AI-driven, real-time data solutions.

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But the scale of growth, along with increasing regulation, would mean that the old ways of working were no longer good enough.

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Hurricane has since become the world-leader in the field of cross-border data covering the areas of product classification, duty and tax calculation, prohibited and restricted goods screening and denied parties screening.

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We have a truly global footprint of customers including some of the biggest names in logistics and global trade.

Hurricane’s Data Solutions Break Down
The Barriers to Successful Global Trade

Our Team

Our team include some of the best talent in tech, logistics, e-commerce, global trade and compliance.

We are restless innovators, strong believers in collaboration and with a customer-centric approach.

Our people are based around the globe including the UK & Europe, United States and Asia Pacific.

We love helping our customers overcome their business pain points and unlock the door to growth in global trade.

Hurricane Team
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Recruiting the best top talent

As a fast-growth, entrepreneurial business, we are always on the look out for the next top talent to join Hurricane.

Whether your expertise lies in tech, business development, account management, technical support or marketing, we’d love to hear from you.

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David SpoTtiswood
Co-founder

Interesting Fact: I am an amateur baker, but I still have no idea how sourduogh starter actually works, and am intrigued how it all reacts together to produce an incredible taste.

Favourite Music: November Rain by Guns ‘n’ Roses.  Going to Wembley with my wife our go to fun thing in our early years, our youth with long hair and rock clothing and not a care in the world other than getting the best spot in the house.

Favourite Quote: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results ” – Albert Einstein

Harry Reilly
Non-exec

Interesting Fact:  I learned Arabic for five years!.

Favourite Music:  A Long December by Counting Crows.  Memory of best family time together in California.

Favourite Quote: “Don’t forget execution, boys. It’s the all-important last 95%”

Tom Lee

Technical Director

Interesting Fact:  I am completely self-taught from a technical skills persepctiuve, and left formal education at 18.

Favourite Music:  Blink 182 – Aliens Exist.  Brings back fond memories of stickly floors and cheap beer.

Favourite Quote: “He sprayed water in my face – thta’s not allowed” – James Haskell.  The whole event surrounding it is hilarious and shows the power of a good wind up

Martin Palmer
Co-Founder

Interesting Fact: I started my working life training to be an accountant but decided I hated numbers. (Ironically I now love them!). I really wanted to join the Hong Kong Police force but couldn’t do that until i was 24. I took a temporary job in Imports and 47 years later here I am.

Favourite Music: There only was one choice. Harry Chapin. Meant a lot to me in my early years as an import broker. We played Chapin for hours and this one seemed to cover so many modes.

Favourite Quote: “No man is an island”

Neil Harmer

Operations Director

Interesting Fact:  As a Geologist my idea of the perfect beach holiday is going to the beach and investigating the rocks in the cliffs behind.

Favourite Music:  Broken Stones – Paul Weller, I’m a huge Paul Weller / The Jam fan; Broken Stones is a very relaxing song, I love the use of the electric piano in it

Favourite Quote: “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today”. This is a great quote by Benjamin Franklin, to have in your head when working through a series of tasks to help keep focused.

Robert Dundas
Sales Director

Interesting Fact:  One of my life goals is to be able to speak French, I’ve been doing Duolingo every day for the last five years, and I’m still rubbish! 

Favourite Music: Where do I even start! Tom Petty Running Down a Dream, this is my top-down driving next to the ocean song

Favourite Quote: “This time will pass”

ASHLEY DEXTER
CFO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: I was nearly named Battle Dexter (I would have probably now been residing in one of His Majesty’s establishments)

Favourite Music: Even though I spent a few years in the music industry my taste of music was always a cause for concern with my colleagues, so to surprise them all my current favourite is Kids by MGMT (absolute belter)

Favourite Quote: “Quitters never win and winners never quit”

Ian Venner
CTO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: Runs Red Lantern Records, a not-for-profit, ethical label as a side project, whose artists have regular national BBC radio airplay.

Favourite Music: Tom Waits, pretty much all of his work.  Beautifully observed avante-garde vignettes of life.  Oh, and anything really loud!

Favourite Quote: “It’s not the mountains we climb, but the grit in our shoe that grinds us down” – which sums up taking a business from start-up to enterprise.

Martyn Noble
CEO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: Played a high standard of semi-professional rugby union (too many years ago now!)

Favourite Music: Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven…my first live gig – Knebworth 11th August 1979, the track never grows old and is the iconic song of ‘hope’ whatever mood you are in when listening too it…and I’m still trying to work out what the lyrics mean!!

Favourite Quote: “Know your customers, Know your People, Know your Numbers” – plagiarised from Sir John Harvey Jones when I met him very early on in my career and values I stick to in my business life.