What Inrupt does

Inrupt is a Boston-based private company founded in 2017 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, who serves as CTO, alongside John Bruce as CEO. The company builds enterprise infrastructure on top of Solid, an open W3C standard for decentralized personal data in which individuals store their information in personal data stores called "Pods" and grant fine-grained consent to applications and AI agents. Its product suite spans the Enterprise Solid Server (ESS), Enterprise Wallet Infrastructure, Data Wallets, and Agentic Wallets — the last of which is designed to let AI agents act on a user's behalf against consented personal data, directly enabling agentic commerce use cases.

The company's technology positions privacy, consent, and data sovereignty as architectural primitives rather than as add-on compliance layers. Co-founder Tim Berners-Lee and Chief of Security Architecture Bruce Schneier provide standards-level and cryptographic credibility that underpins enterprise buyer confidence. Strategic partners include Visa (April 2025, for Intelligent/Agentic Commerce) and Accenture Ventures (April 2022, strategic investor and systems-integration channel); the Belgian Flemish Government has been disclosed as a public-sector pilot customer.

Inrupt's go-to-market is enterprise-led with quote-based pricing for wallet and server deployments, supplemented by SDK and developer tooling around the W3C Solid standard. Total disclosed funding is approximately $46M+ across rounds, including a ~$30M Series A led by Forté Ventures in December 2021 and a strategic investment from Accenture Ventures in April 2022. The team sits in the 51-100 employee range, and the company is targeting financial services, retail, healthcare, travel, and the public sector across geographies including the US, India, and Belgium.

Name

Inrupt

Legal name

Inrupt, Inc.

Website

https://inrupt.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Inrupt is a Boston-based company co-founded by Tim Berners-Lee that builds enterprise infrastructure on the open W3C Solid standard, enabling user-controlled personal data Pods, Data and Agentic Wallets, and Enterprise Solid Servers for financial services, retail, healthcare, travel, and public-sector clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Decentralized Personal Data Infrastructure

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Wallet Infrastructure (SDKs, Wallet-as-a-Service) (FSADACAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Stored Value Ledger / Wallet Infrastructure (Non-Bank) (FSAMANAM), Digital Wallet Platforms (Consumer & Merchant) (BPAMAFAC), Embedded Wallets (Platforms & Marketplaces) (FSAMAEAM)

Keywords

• Decentralized data infrastructure
• Personal data vaults
• Consent management software
• Enterprise wallet platform
• Solid protocol server

Headquarters

HQ city

Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Enterprise Software Licenses and Subscriptions: Inrupt sells the Enterprise Solid Server (ESS) to enterprise customers, likely through licensing agreements with tiered support levels (Silver, Gold, Platinum). Support subscriptions provide differentiated service levels with varying response times and support hours, from business-hours Silver to 24x7 Platinum with dedicated phone support.
2. Developer Tools and Open Source: Inrupt provides developer tools (JavaScript SDK, Java SDK) licensed under MIT License, and Data Wallet under Apache License 2.0 — these are free/open source offerings that serve to grow the ecosystem and drive adoption of the enterprise platform.
3. Professional Services and Implementation: Given the enterprise sales motion targeting government and business clients, Inrupt likely generates revenue through professional services for implementation, customization, and deployment of its Solid-based solutions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Inrupt builds enterprise software infrastructure and wallet products on the open Solid web standard for user-controlled personal data management. Its core products — Agentic Wallets, Data Wallets, and Enterprise Wallet Infrastructure (powered by the Enterprise Solid Server) — enable organizations to host secure, interoperable personal data vaults (PODs) at scale and deliver consent-based, AI-powered customer experiences to enterprises and governments.

Product overview

Inrupt offers a suite of products built on the open Solid protocol for user-controlled personal data management. The portfolio centers on Agentic Wallets (AI-powered personal data wallets) and Data Wallets (user-controlled data storage), supported by Enterprise Wallet Infrastructure as the hosting platform. The core infrastructure includes the Enterprise Solid Server (ESS) for organizations deploying Solid-based solutions. Developer tools comprise JavaScript and Java SDKs plus a Solid Wallet API. All products enable user consent-based data sharing with enterprise safety, built on Solid as the Web standard for data interoperability.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Solid: Open technology created by co-founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee for personal data empowerment and decentralized web infrastructure.
• Data Wallets
• Agentic Wallets
• Enterprise Wallet Infrastructure
• Charlie

Products and services

• Agentic Wallets AI-powered digital wallets that combine Data Wallets with artificial intelligence for innovative, compliant, and hyper-personal customer experiences; enable AI agents to act on behalf of users with their explicit consent and control. Targeted at enterprises building agentic commerce and personalized AI experiences.
• Data Wallets User-controlled personal data wallets that hold consented, real-time customer data, enabling existing customer applications to be enhanced with flexible, secure access to the data businesses need while users retain full control. For enterprises and developers building consent-based data applications.
• Enterprise Wallet Infrastructure Software infrastructure that enables organizations to host safe, interoperable wallets for millions of customers. Built on open Solid standards, providing enterprise-grade data security and privacy for AI-powered customer experiences. For large enterprises and governments deploying at scale.
• Enterprise Solid Server (ESS) Enterprise-grade Solid server implementation for organizations deploying the Solid protocol at scale. Includes services for Access Grants, Auditing, Authorization, Notifications, Pod Management, Query, Wallet, WebID, and supports multi-tenant deployments with high availability architecture. Includes annual third-party penetration testing certification. For enterprises and governments.
• JavaScript SDK JavaScript software development kit for building applications that interact with Solid Pods and Inrupt services; includes modules for authentication, data CRUD operations, access requests/grants, and notifications. Distributed free under MIT License. For developers building on Solid.
• Java SDK Java software development kit enabling developers to build applications that interact with Solid Pods and Inrupt services; supports authentication, session management, CRUD operations, and access control. Distributed free under MIT License. For Java developers building on Solid.
• Solid Wallet API REST API for interacting with Solid Wallets, including Wallet, Inbox, Access Grants, Access Prompts, Access Requests, Signup, and Login endpoints. Enables developers to build custom wallet applications on top of Solid. For developers and integrators.
• Authorization Management Component (AMC) Reference application for managing and accepting Access Requests and Grants, enabling fine-grained control over who can access what data under what conditions. For developers and integrators building consent workflows on Solid.
• PodBrowser Web-based interface for browsing and managing Solid Pods. Reference implementation demonstrating Solid protocol capabilities. For developers and end users exploring Solid Pod data.

Quantifiable outcome

• Belgian Flemish government is piloting citizen data vaults for public services
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• VisaflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 April 2025Inrupt and Visa have been working together for over two years on Intelligent Commerce (safe AI-driven commerce). They conducted a successful POC and are now standing up a sandbox inside Visa so merchants, financial institutions, and LLM providers can test Inrupt's Agentic Wallets alongside Visa's Intelligent Commerce APIs. Visa is making its consent and personal data API compatible with the Solid protocol. Visa's Chief Product and Strategy Officer Jack Forestell has publicly endorsed Inrupt's vision.
• W3CcoreTechnology or IntegrationSolid is a W3C-standardized protocol for decentralized personal data management. W3C is the main standards body for the World Wide Web, co-founded by Tim Berners-Lee. The Solid standard's W3C endorsement is fundamental to Inrupt's technology proposition and interoperability.
• Open Data Institute (ODI)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner logo appears on Inrupt's homepage. The ODI is a non-profit organization that works with companies to open, share, and use data responsibly. The relationship appears focused on standards advocacy and ecosystem building around personal data.
• AccentureminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAccenture logo appears on Inrupt's homepage alongside W3C and ODI, suggesting a go-to-market or implementation partnership relationship beyond just the investment from Accenture Ventures.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Trinsic: Trinsic offers a verifiable-credentials and digital-wallet platform (Trinsic Wallet, Trinsic Studio) targeting enterprises, governments and ecosystems — directly comparable to Inrupt's Agentic/Data Wallets and Enterprise Wallet Infrastructure use cases.
• Indicio: Indicio provides decentralized-identity and verifiable-credential infrastructure (Indicio Proven, hosted wallets) for governments, travel, and enterprise — closely aligned with Inrupt's Solid-based wallet and citizen-data-vault offerings.
• Dock Labs: Dock Labs builds verifiable-credential and decentralized-identity infrastructure including a digital wallet SDK and credential issuer tools, directly comparable to Inrupt's enterprise wallet infrastructure and access-grant flows.
• SpruceID: SpruceID builds developer tools and enterprise infrastructure for decentralized identity and verifiable credentials, including DIDKit and Spruce Kit — overlapping directly with Inrupt's W3C-standards-based wallet, access grants, and Solid Pod positioning for enterprise and government buyers.

Others

• OneTrust: OneTrust is the leading consent-management and privacy-platform vendor, addressing enterprise compliance, consent capture and data-governance needs that complement — and partially overlap with — Inrupt's consent and access-grant architecture for personal data.

Regional players

• ID.me: ID.me provides a digital-identity wallet and verification network used primarily by US federal agencies, states and enterprises — comparable to Inrupt's government digital-identity use cases but anchored in the US public-sector market rather than W3C Solid.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Entra Verified ID: Microsoft's enterprise decentralized-identity product, built on W3C standards, issues and verifies verifiable credentials and supports employee/customer wallet scenarios — a broad incumbent with overlapping wallet and consent-management capabilities aimed at enterprise buyers similar to Inrupt.
• Okta: Okta is the dominant enterprise identity and access-management platform; its Customer Identity Cloud (including Auth0) increasingly overlaps with wallet-style, consent-based personal-data use cases relevant to Inrupt's enterprise wallet strategy.

Emerging players

• Magic Labs: Magic Labs provides embedded wallet-as-a-service and authentication SDKs for Web3/AI applications; comparable to Inrupt's SDK-led, developer-focused wallet infrastructure and API product strategy, though focused on crypto/Web3 use cases rather than W3C Solid.
• Persona: Persona offers an identity-verification and consumer-data platform with consent capture and reusable KYC profiles, partially overlapping with Inrupt's Data Wallets and consented-customer-data value proposition for AI-driven enterprise apps.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors9 records

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M&A

Investments

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