fidentity
Automated online identity verification and qualified e-signatures for regulated firms.
- Swiss CompanyThe operating company is headquartered and legally incorporated in Switzerland.
- Swiss DevelopedThe product is primarily developed by a team operating from Switzerland.
- Hosted in SwitzerlandCore customer data and workloads are hosted in Switzerland by default.
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Overview
fidentity provides identification and signing services that banks and other regulated companies build into their own onboarding and contract processes. IDENT verifies a person in the browser: the user scans an identity document, optionally has its NFC chip read through an Android Instant App or iOS App Clip, and completes a liveness check. An AI engine makes the decision within seconds and documents it as PDF, video and JSON. SIGN adds qualified electronic signatures (QES) under Swiss ZertES and EU eIDAS, with identification built in, and ONBOARD supplies further onboarding checks. simpleSIGN offers the same qualified signature to individual signers. The services are white-label and integrated via API; end users need no app download or registration.
fidentity states that it develops all components itself near Bern and that data is processed only in its Swiss data centre, with BEGASOFT AG as hosting and operations partner; it lists Swisscom as its certified trust service provider partner. Its general privacy policy also names Exoscale and Microsoft Azure as infrastructure providers without assigning them to specific services. The company holds ISO/IEC 27001 certification and ETSI TS 119 461 identity-proofing certificates under ZertES and eIDAS, and KPMG has audited the services against FINMA circulars 2016/7, 2018/3 and 2008/21.
Prices are not published; the services are sold to businesses on request. fidentity AG was founded in 2016 and is registered in Köniz; Thorsten Hau and Edgar Spring, who have run the company since its registration, sit on its board.
Why it may be a Swiss alternative
fidentity is operated by fidentity AG, which is headquartered in Köniz, Bern. Swiss-headquartered company. Ownership is mixed or not fully verified, or development happens mainly abroad.
According to the information we found, core customer data is hosted in Switzerland.
May replace
- DocusignDocusign, Inc. · USSigns only with qualified electronic signatures, with identity verification built in, and is integrated into a company's own processes via API; no standalone document workflow or template management is described.
- OnfidoEntrust Corporation · USAimed at the Swiss and EU markets, with KPMG audits against FINMA circulars, and combines identification with qualified signatures.
- IDnowIDnow GmbH · DEIdentification decisions are made by an automated AI engine; agent-led video identification is not described.
Foreign products with overlapping functionality. An alternative is not necessarily a one-to-one replacement.
Swiss footprint
Five independent questions. A Swiss company is not automatically Swiss-hosted — and vice versa. How the footprint is assessed
Swiss company. Swiss-headquartered company. Ownership is mixed or not fully verified, or development happens mainly abroad.
- HeadquartersIs the operating company headquartered in Switzerland?
- Köniz, Bern (BE), SwitzerlandVerified[1]
The business address is Waldeggstrasse 30, 3097 Liebefeld (municipality of Köniz).
- Legal jurisdiction
- OwnershipIs the company ultimately Swiss-owned?
- Unknown / not verified
The shareholder register of a Swiss AG is not public. Thorsten Hau and Edgar Spring, who have run the company since its registration, sit on the board. On its conversion into an AG in 2021 the company took on external investors, with the venture investor Spicehaus Partners as lead investor (according to fidentity's milestones page); the register shows three classes of preferred shares after a capital increase in December 2023. All four current board members, including president Benjamin Hirt, are Swiss citizens living in Switzerland. No controlling parent company was found.
- DevelopmentIs the product developed in Switzerland?
- YesVendor claim[2]
fidentity states that all development and maintenance is done in its offices near Bern without near- or offshoring. Its partner list also names external firms for app development (Approppo) and software development (XToniq).
- HostingIs customer data hosted in Switzerland?
- Yes — SwitzerlandVendor claim[2]
fidentity states that data and processes never leave its Swiss data centre and names BEGASOFT AG in Bern as its hosting and operations partner. Its general privacy policy also lists Exoscale and Microsoft Azure as infrastructure providers without stating which services use them.
- InfrastructureIs the hosting infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider?
- Unknown / not verified
Features & platforms
- Platforms
- Deployment
- Made for
- Interface languages
- Unknown / not verified
Privacy & security
- Public API
- Yes
- Not verified
- End-to-end encryption, Encryption at rest, Encryption in transit, Multi-factor authentication, Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC), SCIM provisioning and Data export
- Certifications
Pricing
Unknown / not verified
Company
Company based in Liebefeld near Bern, founded in 2016, that develops online identity verification and qualified electronic signature services for banks and other regulated businesses.
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Sources & verification
Every claim on this page is marked as verified, vendor claim or inferred. Unknown means we could not confirm it — not that the answer is “no”.
- Verified Confirmed by an independent or official source such as the commercial register.
- Vendor claim Stated by the vendor in its own documentation, website or legal terms.
- Inferred Derived by the editors from indirect evidence — see the note.
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