Digiseq
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DIGISEQ provides an IoT platform that delivers contactless payment, access control, and digital identity functionality to wearables and everyday objects without requiring internet access. The platform serves banks, retailers, product creators, and service providers seeking to integrate passive wearable payment technology.
Also known as DIGISEQ · Digiseq Ltd · DIGISEQ Ltd
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026DIGISEQ Ltd is a London-based company whose platform provisions payment, access control and promotional services onto branded wearables and everyday objects, connecting device manufacturers, service providers and card issuers through a single integration. The company positions its offering across three service lines — Payment Ready, Access Ready and Promo Ready — supported by a range of certified chip inlays intended for plug-and-play integration by product makers.
Its payment service provisions payment tokens or full card accounts to devices containing a secure element. DIGISEQ holds PCI CPP and PCI DSS Level 1 certification, allowing it to handle full payment card data and act as a digital personalisation bureau, pushing or pulling prepaid, debit and credit accounts via APIs or file transfer and loading them onto a wearable either centrally or through the consumer's mobile phone. It is also a certified Token Requestor with Mastercard, and where its Token Requestor ID is enabled by banks and issuers it can link a consumer's payment card to their wearable through tokenisation. A white-label mobile application, Manage-Mii, is offered via reskin, SDK or API integration and lets consumers activate and manage services on a device, view payment configuration, share a customisable digital business card and freeze a lost wearable. The company also provides interactive features and technical support at events.
Founding story
The company was founded in 2014 by two former Mastercard senior leaders; its management team is described as having more than 75 years of combined payments industry experience and involvement in the development of tokenisation for Apple Pay.
Business model
DIGISEQ supplies its provisioning platform, certified inlays and white-label app to brands, manufacturers, banks and issuers as a route to market for wearable payment and access products, with integration available by app reskin, SDK or API so partners retain ownership of their customers.
Not detailed in available sourcing beyond a reported $500K trailing-twelve-month revenue figure.
Traction
Reported $500K in trailing-twelve-month revenue and 12 employees. Client deployments include Niceboy's commercially launched smart health ring with payment, mBank's kids' payment bracelets and payment finger nails with Manipal Identity Solutions and RuPay; the company also states it provisioned functionality such as anti-counterfeit provenance for the Golden Globes Awards.
Latest developments
Recent company news covers a personalised guest experience delivered for Mastercard VIPs (January 2026), support for Manipal Identity Solutions and RuPay payment finger nails (October 2025) and the commercial launch of a smart health ring with payment by client Niceboy (September 2025).
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Presents itself as an innovator in the wearables payment segment, acting as a single connection between thousands of banks and large volumes of wearable devices, with named work alongside Mastercard, Infineon and multiple consumer device brands.
The company cites patented rapid provisioning claimed to be six times faster than alternatives, PCI CPP and PCI DSS Level 1 certification enabling it to act as a digital personalisation bureau, certified Mastercard Token Requestor status, universally certified inlays, and its claim to have been first, with Mastercard, to tokenise passive wearable payments.
Technology
The platform provisions payment tokens or full payment accounts into secure elements embedded in wearables. Its patented Rapid Contactless Personalisation (Rcos) process lets a consumer personalise a device at home using a mobile phone, which the company states runs six times faster than other providers. Tokenisation replaces the 16-digit card number with a device-unique token so the original number is neither used nor stored on the wearable. Certified inlays and the Manage-Mii white-label app complete the stack.
Go-to-market
DIGISEQ works through partners — banks, issuers and consumer product brands — providing a full-service route to market including certified products and chip inlays plus a white-label consumer app, and supports client launches such as Niceboy's smart health ring, mBank's children's payment bracelets and Manipal Identity Solutions' RuPay payment finger nails.
Banks and card issuers, product brands and device manufacturers, service providers, and event organisers seeking payment, access or identity functionality in wearables.
Geography
Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with client and partner deployments referenced in European and Indian markets.
History
Founded in June 2014 in London by two former Mastercard senior leaders, the company built a management team drawn from the payments industry and developed provisioning technology for passive wearables. It subsequently partnered with Mastercard on tokenised passive wearable payments and has supported commercial client launches including mBank kids' payment bracelets (2024), Niceboy's smart health ring with payment (2025) and payment finger nails with Manipal Identity Solutions and RuPay (2025).
Compiled by commissioned research from 5 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 5
launches, deals, and filingsCompany news item describing a fully personalised guest experience delivered for Mastercard VIPs.
DIGISEQ states that, in partnership with Mastercard, it was the first to tokenise passive wearable payments.
DIGISEQ supported Manipal Identity Solutions and RuPay on a payment-enabled finger nail product.
DIGISEQ client Niceboy commercially launched what the company describes as the first smart health ring with payment functionality.
mBank launched children's payment bracelets to complement its parent/child accounts, listed among DIGISEQ Payment Ready case studies.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureCompanies House · registry record
View on Companies House ↗- Registered name
- DIGISEQ LIMITED
- Company number
- 09085152
- Status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 13 Jun 2014
- Registered office
- International House, 64 Nile Street, London, N1 7SR
- Nature of business (SIC)
- 62090 — Other information technology service activities
- Accounts
- last made up to 31 Dec 2025 · next due 30 Sept 2027
- Confirmation statement
- last made up to 29 Jul 2025 · next due 12 Aug 2026
Current officers · 5
- David Gerald William Birch — director, appointed 25 Nov 2021
- Ido Kariti — director, appointed 25 Nov 2021
- Theresa Lorraine Smith — director, appointed 13 Jun 2014
- Colin Robert Tanner — director, appointed 13 Jun 2014
- Angela Geraldine Yore — director, appointed 25 Nov 2021
Source: Companies House public register · retrieved 24 Jul 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
▸Research sources · 5
primary sources listed
- Digiseqdigiseq.co.uk · web
5 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Digiseq do?
- UK platform that provisions contactless payment, access and identity services into wearables and everyday objects.
- Who founded Digiseq?
- Digiseq was founded by Colin Tanner, Terrie Smith.
- Who are Digiseq's investors?
- Digiseq's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Digiseq headquartered?
- Digiseq is headquartered in London, GB.


