By providing qualified trust services, Cleverbase enables secure and reliable online business processes. Using a smartphone-based, reusable, personal digital identity wallet, it provides end users control over online transactions, and simultaneously offers organizations confidence over counterparties and data dealt with.
Cleverbase develops and offers digital services for secure signing, logging in, encrypted information exchange and archiving conform strictest international security requirements. The company has a Europe-wide QTSP (Qualified Trust Service Provider) license, governed under the eIDAS (Electronic Identification, Authenication, and Trust Services) regulation by the European Parliament. Moreover, the company is eIDAS 2.0 ready.
Cleverbase carries Vidua as its consumer-facing brand. Users can download the Vidua app on any smartphone and undergo a one-time, effortless online onboarding and natural identity verification process. A qualified certificate is issued and a digital trust service wallet is created on the user’s smartphone. Having completed the onboarding process once, users benefit from infinite reusability and can perform trust services perpetually without re-registration. The number of use cases and accepting parties for trust services is continuously growing.
Lenos Equity is an independent private equity firm with a family office mindset. It participates in projects and companies that positively impact the end user and society in a broader sense. Lenos provides a pan-European network and extensive knowledge regarding operating in the European marketplace. The firm offers strong value creating capabilities and have a long term investment horizon.
Lenos Equity is founded by technology platform visionary and industry veteran Gijs Nagel. Previously, Nagel co-founded DEGIRO, the largest online brokerage platform in Europe, active in over 18 countries. Next to Cleverbase, Lenos Equity amongst others invests in eBrain.ai, an ecosystem of modular, agentic AI-powered solutions that support SMEs across their everyday operations as well as in their long-term organizational development.
Cleverbase was founded in 2016 by a team of data sharing schemes designers and auditors. Having focused mainly on software, infrastructure, organizational and market development over its first years in business, the company put limited emphasis on commercialization. With an organization now poised to scale up and start leveraging the exceptional platform and market position in place, as well as a strongly growing base of onboarded end-users and accepting parties, the shareholders decided to onboard a strategic investor to co-realize its impending growth trajectory with.
