IDsure has announced the closure of a €600,000 seed investment round to accelerate the rollout of its digital identity and certificate infrastructure for the maritime sector.
The company says that the funding will be used to support direct relationships with flag states and training institutes, alongside expanding a network of service providers building applications for ship managers, employers, and seafarers.
IDsure has developed a platform for digital maritime credentials and identity records using aviation-grade identity verification, cryptographically signed tamper-proof certificates recorded on the Concordium blockchain. The system also offers instant credential verification via QR code scans.
The framework has been designed to align with the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW), International Labour Organization (ILO) 185, and national flag state requirements.
Early deployments of the technology include a partnership with the Bahamas Maritime Authority to deliver digital seafarer record books and competency certificates across its national registry, a crew certificate pilot for bridge officers with Columbia Shipmanagement, and identity verification infrastructure with SITA.
Rather than providing a direct application, the platform functions as an underlying digital foundation that allows flag states and training institutes to link directly into that infrastructure, while service providers can develop customer-facing applications and workflows to serve operators, port authorities, and crew members.
“For too long, maritime has run on paper. A seafarer’s record book gets photocopied dozens of times. Certificates take hours to verify. Both can be forged,” said Jesper Holmgren, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of IDsure and a former Master Mariner.
“We built IDsure to fix all three of those things – by issuing verifiable identity, making certificates tamper-proof, and letting any authorised counterparty check them in seconds. This round lets us scale that infrastructure across the industry that’s been asking for it.”
The capital will be used to deepen relationships with additional flag states and training centres, expand developer application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) for the service-provider ecosystem, and invest further in the core certificate issuance and verification stack.
