What filancore does

filancore GmbH is a German private company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Limburgerhof, operating as a remote-first team of 1–10 employees. The company builds a Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) platform based on W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials, anchored on the IOTA distributed ledger, that replaces traditional Public Key Infrastructure with a web-of-trust and zero-trust architecture. Its product suite centers on filancore Sentinel, an identity gateway for people, machines, and organizations, and is complemented by Ankrypt (an on-device IoT SDK and authentication client), Records & Streams (tamper-proof data provenance), Over-the-air (firmware verification for OTA updates without certificates), and Wallet (passwordless human login). The technical differentiator is the deliberate removal of certificate authorities from the trust chain, which the company cites as delivering 5–10x lower IoT identity infrastructure cost and up to 65% faster deployment versus PKI.

filancore monetizes through subscription-based software licensing of its modular platform, augmented by professional services for onboarding and implementation. The accelerator program (€4,500 for a 6-month testing license including onboarding, use-case support calls, and implementation sessions) functions as a structured entry point, with a 15% renewal discount and quoted enterprise pricing thereafter. Go-to-market is enterprise-focused, combining direct field sales, consultative feasibility and ROI engagements, and active participation in European IoT and cybersecurity conferences. Distribution is amplified through partnerships with ETO GRUPPE (strategic investor and Industry 4.0 co-developer), STACKIT/Schwarz Digits (sovereign cloud bundling), Tropic Square (hardware root-of-trust), and ecosystem partners including Venafi, IOTA Foundation, ioncentric, and Impierce Technologies.

Customer concentration is high and skewed toward European anchor accounts: BWI GmbH (defense IT), ETO GRUPPE (manufacturing/IoT), Venafi (machine identity), Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (automotive research), Hannah&/ETO Gruppe (smart healthcare), and Blue Flash Mobility Concepts (Formula Student battery passport). The company is certified ISO/IEC 27001:2022 by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), was featured in two Gartner Hype Cycles in 2025, and won the 2024 Defence Challenge in software-defined defence, supporting a regulatory-led go-to-market targeting EU CRA, NIS-2, eIDAS 2.0, and EU Battery Regulation compliance buyers.

Name

filancore

Legal name

Filancore GmbH

Website

https://filancore.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

filancore is a German SSI platform provider replacing PKI with decentralized identity infrastructure for IoT devices, organizations, and humans. It sells a modular subscription platform (Sentinel, Ankrypt, Records, Over-the-air, Wallet) to European enterprise, defense, manufacturing, and healthcare customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Decentralized Identity & Access Management

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) (561621), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Secrets Management & Machine Identity (API keys, certificates, workload identity) (HDAEAJAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Device Identity & Certificate-Based Authentication (PKI) (BPAMAEAL), Decentralized Identity & Verifiable Credentials for Finance (DID/KYC Reuse) (FSAGAMAE), Compliance Identity & KYC/KYB for Wallets (on-chain identity, reusable KYC, travel rule tooling) (FSAPACAL), API Security & Service-to-Service Security (mTLS, Service Mesh Security) (HDABAHAN)

Keywords

• Decentralized identity management
• IoT security solutions
• Self-sovereign identity
• Machine identity authentication
• Verifiable credentials platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Limburgerhof

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Software Licenses and Subscriptions: The company offers its identity management platform through software licenses, with an accelerator program providing 6-month testing licenses. Products include Sentinel, Ankrypt, Records, and Over-the-air modules. Pricing is subscription-based with enterprise quotes.
2. Professional Services and Consulting: Implementation support, onboarding, and consulting services included in accelerator program (feasibility calls, ROI calculations, use case support, implementation sessions). Additional consulting engagements for custom integration.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

filancore builds and sells a modular Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) platform for managing digital identities of people, machines, and organizations without relying on traditional Public Key Infrastructure. Its core product, filancore Sentinel, anchors verifiable credentials on the IOTA distributed ledger using W3C DIDs, and is complemented by Ankrypt (IoT SDK for device access), Records & Streams (tamper-proof data provenance), Over-the-air (firmware verification), and Wallet (passwordless human login). Offerings are delivered as enterprise software subscriptions, supplemented by professional services for onboarding and integration.

Product overview

filancore offers a modular sovereign identity platform consisting of the core filancore Sentinel identity gateway plus supplementary modules. filancore Sentinel serves as the unified platform that secures and manages all identities and credentials for people, machines, and organisations. This core platform is complemented by filancore Ankrypt (IoT-ready SDK for access control and authentication), filancore Records (tamper-proof data provenance and streaming), filancore Over-the-air (secure firmware verification for OTA updates), and filancore Wallet (passwordless human identity management). The entire portfolio operates on a PKI-free, zero-trust architecture using decentralized identity standards (W3C DIDs and Verifiable Credentials), enabling organisations to establish sovereign identities without relying on traditional certificate authorities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Sentinel: All-in-one platform that secures and manages all identities and credentials - the main identity and access management platform for IoT based on Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI).
• Ankrypt
• Records
• Over-the-air
• Wallet

Products and services

• filancore Sentinel Core identity gateway platform that secures and manages all digital identities and credentials for people, machines, and organisations via self-sovereign identity, intended for enterprises that need sovereign, PKI-free identity and access management.
• filancore Ankrypt IoT-ready client and SDK providing on-device self-sovereign identity for access control, supporting machine-to-machine and machine-to-people authentication using DIDs and verifiable credentials via OIDC standards, for IoT device manufacturers and integrators.
• filancore Records & Streams Module that provides tamper-proof data provenance by guaranteeing the origin and history of data with cryptographically verifiable and immutable records, for organisations needing trusted data sharing and audit trails.
• filancore Over-the-air Provides on-device firmware verification for secure over-the-air updates, validating firmware packages without certificates by using verifiable credentials to confirm originality and immutability, for IoT device manufacturers and OT operators.
• filancore Wallet Passwordless and cross-system login solution for human identity management based on unique identifiers without PKI, providing privacy-first personal identity management for organisations and their end users.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 60% cost reduction in security costs compared to traditional PKI implementations
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• STACKIT (Schwarz Digits)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 March 2026Partnership to combine sovereign cloud infrastructure with innovative identity and access management. Joint go-to-market for European digital sovereignty, compliance, and traceability. STACKIT is the cloud provider of Schwarz Digits working toward becoming Europe's first hyperscaler.
• Tropic SquarecoreTechnology or Integration · 17 June 2025Integration of Tropic Square's TROPIC01 secure element with filancore Ankrypt. TROPIC01 provides auditable hardware root-of-trust for storing device identity keys on IoT devices. Enables end-to-end trust from secure key storage in silicon to verifiable identities at the edge.
• IOTA FoundationcoreTechnology or Integrationfilancore develops on base of IOTA technology and uses IOTA Identity framework. Massive contributions to IOTA Identity framework including beta release development. IOTA provides the distributed ledger foundation for decentralized identity anchoring.
• Technische Hochschule IngolstadtminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner in TRADE project for automotive cybersecurity. THI researches decentralized web-of-trust scenarios, digital sovereignty in C2X ecosystems, and conducts security testing using Laboratory for Security in Mobility and Forensics of Alternative Drive Systems.
• ioncentricminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-exhibited at embedded world 2026 for digital battery passport solutions. ioncentric provides dynamic data acquisition with SSI-secured cloud infrastructure for lifecycle monitoring, predictive analytics, and EU-compliant battery passports.
• Deutsche Telekom TechBoostminorGTM or Marketing PartnerAccepted into Telekom TechBoost Startup Partner Program to strengthen IoT security together. Startup acceleration program providing resources and market access.
• Silicon Valley EuropeminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMember of Silicon Valley Europe network for European technology companies.
• Blue Flash Mobility ConceptsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTechnology partner and sponsor for E_HAWK25 Formula Student electric race car. Integration of IoT-enabled battery management system using filancore's SSI technology for digital battery passport.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Trinsic: Trinsic offers a SaaS platform for issuing, managing, and verifying verifiable credentials and DIDs — directly comparable to filancore Sentinel, with similar SSI-first architecture and developer tools aimed at enterprise pilots.
• Indicio: Indicio provides decentralized identity infrastructure (Indicio Proven) for verifiable credentials, focused on government, travel, and supply chain — overlapping with filancore's organizational and IoT identity use cases.
• Spruce Systems: Spruce builds DID-based authentication, OIDC4VC, and credentialing tools for developers and enterprises — a direct technical peer in the W3C DID / verifiable credentials stack that filancore also targets.
• Evernym: Evernym pioneered Sovrin-based self-sovereign identity and was acquired by Avast/Norton; a foundational direct peer whose original DIDs/VC technology underpins much of the same standards filancore leverages.

Broad incumbents

• DigiCert: DigiCert is the largest commercial PKI and certificate lifecycle management vendor; it is the established incumbent whose centralized certificate-authority model filancore is positioning against, and is now extending into IoT/device identity.
• CyberArk (Venafi): CyberArk acquired Venafi to combine privileged access with machine identity security at scale; Venafi is a filancore ecosystem partner today but CyberArk's broader portfolio could subsume filancore's machine identity wedge.
• Sectigo: Sectigo is a major commercial CA and IoT/enterprise PKI provider; broadly incumbent in the certificate lifecycle space filancore seeks to replace for select IoT and supply chain use cases.
• HashiCorp (IBM): HashiCorp Vault is the dominant secrets and machine identity platform for cloud-native workloads, recently acquired by IBM; an incumbent whose territory overlaps with filancore's on-device secrets and workload identity claims.
• Okta: Okta is the leading workforce and customer identity platform and is extending into decentralized identity (CIC, ID-JAG) and passwordless auth; a broad incumbent with overlapping human identity ambitions versus filancore's Wallet module.

Others

• IOTA Foundation: IOTA Foundation provides the distributed ledger and IOTA Identity framework on which filancore builds its SSI platform; an upstream technology enabler/infrastructure provider rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/FilancoreGmbH
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/filancore

Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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