About Authbound

Getting businesses ready for the EU Digital Identity Wallet.

We're a small Finnish team building identity verification, age checks, and credential issuance for the 2026 rollout of the EU wallet.

The team

The people building it

CEO

Lassi Palojärvi

Works across product and the technical side of our EU wallet integrations.

CTO

Siyarcan Yücel

Looks after where the company is headed, and stays hands-on with how the platform gets built.

Growth & Product Marketing

Tharindi Jayalath

Runs inbound and product marketing, and writes our digital identity blog.

Growth & Business Development

Ashraf Mansour

Works on business development and sales, from prospecting and market research to go-to-market.

Growth Engineer

Artem Poliakov

Works on growth and outreach, connecting with companies getting ready for the EU wallet.

6thStartup100 2026place in the 2026 ranking

Why now

Why 2026 matters

In 2026 the EU Digital Identity Wallet reaches around 450 million people. Any business that checks age, identity, or credentials will need to support it. We build that integration layer, so they don't have to start from zero.

450M+: people in the wallet's reach
2026: EU-wide rollout
Finland: where the team is based

How we build

Built for trust

Security first

Verifications and credentials held to bank-grade security.

Privacy by design

People prove a claim while sharing only what it needs, nothing more.

eIDAS 2.0 & GDPR

Built to the EU's identity and data-protection rules from day one.

Standards-based

Built on the open OpenID4VP and OpenID4VCI standards behind the wallet.