Shareid

Market position

ShareID competes in digital identity verification and strong customer authentication, differentiating on eIDAS 2.0 assurance-level coverage, EUDI Wallet readiness and a no-data-storage architecture. Investor commentary at the seed round framed existing MFA solutions as unable to confirm the actual person behind the screen. Third-party profiles describe the company as an early-stage seed company with 11-50 employees serving regulated organisations, with public-sector validation from work with the Gendarmerie Nationale and the Ministry of the Interior [2][4][5][6][7].

Stated differentiators are: no storage of personal or biometric data (in-memory processing plus hashing), reusable identity allowing passwordless re-authentication with a smile, eIDAS 2.0 assurance levels (low, substantial, high) built into every module by design, EUDI Wallet attestation issuance and verification, ETSI TS 119 461 compatibility, modular assembly of journeys with intelligent fallback and optional human operator, deployment choice including SecNumCloud, and a fraud-detection feedback loop from the Gendarmerie Nationale partnership [0][1][6][7].

Technology

The platform uses computer vision and machine learning to check the authenticity of government-issued identity documents through photo, video and NFC capture, and to run active and passive liveness detection compatible with ETSI TS 119 461. It supports EUDI Wallet PID enrolment and issuance/verification of EAA and QEAA attestations, and offers reusable digital identity for re-authentication. Materials describe patented technology and biometric chain encryption, transient in-memory processing with hashing before deletion so that no personal or biometric data is retained, and AI models trained on Google Cloud. Claimed accuracy is up to 99.9% for document authentication across more than 120 countries [0][1][4][6][7].

Go-to-market

ShareID sells directly to businesses via a self-serve free trial and SDK-based integration, and also distributes through partners and other providers — one testimonial comes from a partner (Foster) integrating ShareID technology into its own portfolio, and the platform can ingest verifications from other IDV providers as a trusted source. The founders describe an expansion strategy of distributing through established players in target regions, with seed proceeds directed at the US market. Content marketing includes a blog, video library, press page and a monthly newsletter [0][1][2][4][7].

Businesses with regulatory or legal obligations to verify and authenticate users, including financial services and regulated institutions and their trusted service providers, e-commerce, government, enterprise, hospitality and real estate. Named or referenced customers include Euro Information, Chari, Foster and the French Ministry of the Interior [0][1][6][7].

Geography

Headquartered in Paris, France, with offices listed in Casablanca and San Francisco. One third-party profile gives the HQ as Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France. Document verification coverage is stated at more than 120 countries, and seed funding was raised to expand into the United States [0][1][2][4][6][7].

History

Founded in 2020 in Paris, ShareID began collaborating with France's Gendarmerie Nationale on document fraud detection in 2021. It raised a €2M seed round led by Newfund, reported by third-party trackers as a $2.0M round dated January 2023, to fund expansion into the United States. In early 2024 the founders joined the second cohort of the Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for Cybersecurity and adopted Google Cloud for AI model training and production. Later in 2024 the company supplied identity checks on French Ministry of the Interior terminals during the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games and was nominated for the Unicorn Kingdom: Pathfinder Awards. By 2025-2026 the product had been repositioned as a modular eIDAS 2.0 identity hub spanning document IDV, liveness, EUDI Wallet attestations and MFA 3.0 [0][1][2][4][5][6][7].

Risks & controversies

No controversies are reported in the sources. Sourcing limitations are notable: funding figures are inconsistent across sources (€2M seed per company press release and trackers, versus a €4 million raise referenced by Google for Startups), the seed round date is given as January 2023 only by an aggregator while the press release is undated, investor lists differ between the company release (Newfund, 212 Founders/CDG Invest, Bernard Mourad, Tom Kemp) and an aggregator (Newfund, XAnge, Frederic Montagnon, Sebastien Borget), and headquarters is variously listed as Paris or Neuilly-sur-Seine. Performance figures (92%, 99.9%, 120+ countries) are company-claimed. A separate, unrelated company at shareid.io in Milan, Italy offering holographic staffing technology creates a name-collision risk in data collection [2][4][5][6][7].