[1] Panjiva organizes and indexes data provided by a number of different third-party sources, primarily Customs agencies, but also commercial information resources like Dun & Bradstreet, ZoomInfo, and Kompass.

The Panjiva platform aggregates these different data sources to supply information on companies and other agents engaged in international trade.

[4] Jeff Silberman, Chair of the Department of Textile Development and Marketing at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, has praised Panjiva as "not just innovative, but revolutionary.

From there, Green and Psota - friends from graduate school - decided to launch a website that would make it easier to connect international buyers and suppliers.

Since its founding, Panjiva's objective has expanded from being a resource for buyers and suppliers to providing information to all parties engaged or interested in global trade flows.