Kismet Trades
De-risked global trades, at your service.
Average Trade Size
20,00 - 100,000 MT
Deal Size / Trade
$1M - $100M
Global Countries
10+
Network
20+
O&G Commodities
Refined Oil; EN590
Crude Oil
Jet Fuel
Agricultural Goods
Fertilizer
Grains
Trade Expertise
Capital Financing
Import & Export
Risk & Compliance
De-Risked Trade Financing
"Kismet Trades" is a DBA operating under the incubating company, Kismet XYZ Inc. We specialize in bringing together structured trade financing deals involving global commodities like EN590, Diesel, Jet Fuel, fertilizer, grains, and agricultural goods. We are positioned in between buyers, sellers, and trade financing counterparties as a low-ego broker with a strong background in company development.
How We Structure a Trade
Kismet Trades operates with its trade financing  partners to execute highly structured, risk-mitigated trades. Our primary operational mechanism is the "De-Risked Trade Finance Protocol," which prioritizes direct bank-led verification over intermediary assurances or general market talk.

Here is how we structure a standard transaction:
  • Seller Gets Upfront Payment:
    KT Trade Financiers makes the purchase payment of the commodity directly to the seller on behalf of the buyer. Buyer is now in debt to KT Trade Financiers.

    Under this method, the Seller is satisfied and is removed from the process.
  • Buyer owns LC and Logistic liabilities:
    The Buyer assumes full ownership of the Letter of Credit (LC). No exceptions. The Buyer is responsible for all logistics costs, liability overhead, and insurance.
  • Funds Released at Milestone-Based Execution:

    Funds are strictly released only after direct bank-to-bank dialogue is established and compliant, independently verified shipment evidence—such as a Bill of Lading, SGS inspection, or invoices—is provided. Furthermore, KT Trade Financiers explicitly does not take on the LC or ownership liability.
  • Buyer repays KT Trade Financiers over time:
    ‍The Buyer is in debt to KT Trade Financiers, and the Buyer is obligated to repay the funding banks over a set period of time.

    This allows the Buyer to monetize and resell to the market to manage cash flow.
Global Partners
Kismet XYZ Inc.
Parent Company
ABEKS Gmbh
Trade Financing
CapFiX Energy
Global Network
Omnisense Labs Inc.
Metering for O&G
The Kismet XYZ Trading Team
Daniel Kwan
Chairman of Kismet XYZ, KT Co-Lead
Daniel is a serial entrepreneur and is the leading founder, Chairman, and CEO of Kismet XYZ Inc. (KXYZ) , a holding and operating company specialized in building deeptech ventures with real-world impact, and is the operating Chairman and CEO of Omnisense Labs Inc. (OSL), the hero product subsidiary of Kismet XYZ Inc. focused on eliminating measurement errors % in pipe infrastructure, commodity reads for liquids and gases, and improving the total economic trade value (TETV) between trading global partners worldwide.

With more than 15+ years in Silicon Valley, Daniel has been honed into a gritty full-stack entrepreneur who has embodied the accelerated life of incubating, growing, and scaling multiple startups, from pioneering autonomous vehicles at Google [X]’s Self-Driving Car project aka “Waymo” ($45 Bn Nov 2024), to pioneering Nuro and its self-driving delivery units ($6 Bn Apr 2025), to pioneering construction autonomy before its pre-seed for SafeAI, and to reimagining operating systems to go smaller than < 1 MB for in-memory processing as Parallelization Software’s CEO, his work turns breakthrough ideas into scalable commercial products. With roots at Google [X] and ventures in AR, AI/ML, and industrial automation, Daniel specializes in bridging R&D efforts into translatable market adoption.
Brian Julianel
Global Business, Co-Lead
Brian is a global trade intelligence operator and security-technology strategist who bridges high-security R&D with real-world commercial execution. From advancing currency-grade authentication systems with KOMSCO, Banknote Corporation of America, DSS, 3SMK, and Forward Optics, to supporting military-grade data platforms as a DOD contractor, to building anti-fraud, track-and-trace, and supply-chain solutions across Africa, Asia, and the US, his work drives trust and verification at scale. He has led international commodity sourcing for Walmart and major US food distributors, managed cross-border risk, and advised emerging security tech on route-to-market strategy. As CEO of Technique Group, Brian specializes in transforming complex technologies and fragmented global supply chains into secure, verifiable, commercially deployable systems.
Kismet XYZ Inc. ➞ DBA "Kismet Trades"
Incubating Parent Company
Kismet XYZ Inc. is the incubating parent company of DBA Kismet Trades. Its founder and Chairman, Daniel Kwan, and VP, Brian Julianel, co-led into incubating "Kismet Trades" from a series of global energy initiatives inspired by one of Kismet XYZ's Hardtech metering subsidiary, Omnisense Labs Inc.

Kismet Trades serves the modern trading platform with a low-ego approach to better serve and ultimately secure deals between vetted buyers and sellers who actively trade global commodities around the world.

This team is growing in multiple timezones, so please contact the team with your interest and business below.
Kismet XYZ Inc.
Parent Company
[KXYZ blurb]
Trading Partners in Texas
Domestic and International
O&G Commodities
• Light Crude

Other
• Oil and natural gas business activities for Omnisense Labs.
Trading Partners in Malaysia
Import and Export
O&G Commodities
• EN590
• Crude

Agricultural
• Fertilizer
Trading Partners in Spain
Import and Export
O&G Commodities
• EN590
• Crude
Trading Partners in Serbia
Import and Export
Capital Financing
• Trade Finance
Trading Partners in Ghana
Import and Export
O&G Commodities
• Crude
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Daniel Kwan
Daniel Kwan
‍‍‍‍
Chairman of Kismet XYZ Inc.
Co-Lead for DBA Kismet Trades
Brian Julianel
Brian Julianel
‍‍‍‍
Global Business
Co-Lead for DBA Kismet Trades
PDT timezone (GMT-7), USA-based; Global Partners
"Kismet Trades" is a DBA operating under the incubating company, Kismet XYZ Inc. We specialize in bringing together structured trade financing deals involving global commodities like EN590, Diesel, Jet Fuel, fertilizer, grains, and agricultural goods. We are positioned in between buyers, sellers, and trade financing counterparties as a low-ego broker with a strong background in company development.