• Company

    Cleverbase

  • SectorTMT
  • ActivityDigital trust services
  • Date20 May 2025
  • CountryNetherlands

Digital trust service provider Cleverbase raises growth capital from Lenos Equity

Profile

Cleverbase helps public authorities, businesses and citizens to securely identify, authenticate and use qualified electronic signatures, and is working on digital wallets and attestations for broad adoption. The company was founded in 2016 and works with, among others, NVM, the municipality of Rotterdam, RDW, the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration and ING.

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 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 focused on digital security and AI. Lenos was founded by Gijs Nagel and Gert Jan Holstege and, together with partners Jaap Kalff and Peter Frankhuizen, invests in companies that create positive impact for users and society. Lenos supports its portfolio companies with a strong European network, scale-up experience and a long-term focus.

Gijs Nagel, co-founder of investment platform DEGIRO, is investing millions through Lenos Equity in Cleverbase, one of the few eIDAS-qualified Trust Service Providers (QTSPs) in the Netherlands. The investment is intended to accelerate the broad adoption of secure digital identification, authentication and qualified electronic signatures, and supports the shared ambition to build a European "Trust Valley": a reliable digital foundation layer where citizens, businesses and governments can transact safely.

With the capital injection, Lenos Equity takes a substantial stake in Cleverbase. The current managing directors, Remco van Wijk and Sander Dijkhuis, remain responsible for day-to-day management. The focus is on three accelerators: further development of digital wallets and attestation services, an accelerated international roll-out within the eIDAS framework, and new integrations with banks, notaries, public authorities and commercial platforms.

Gijs Nagel, founder of Lenos Equity: "Responsible, European trust services are becoming the new norm, and with the rise of AI and growing geopolitical tensions this is more urgent than ever. Cleverbase has proven technology and a strong team, and together we are contributing to a European 'Trust Valley': a dependable layer over digital transactions, at scale."

Remco van Wijk, CEO and co-founder of Cleverbase: "This partnership is about scale and accessibility. Since 2016 we have invested substantially in our technology and proven that digital trust can be safe and simple. With the expertise and network of Lenos we are accelerating product development, integrations and the broad adoption of our trust services."

Press release

For more information: Cleverbase, Vidua, and Lenos Equity

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