LegitDoc

What LegitDoc does

LegitDoc, operating as a product brand under Zupple Labs (Bengaluru, India), is a blockchain-based SaaS platform for issuing and verifying tamper-proof digital credentials. The company anchors document hashes on Ethereum, Polygon, and Avalanche blockchains using a patent-filed proprietary hashing method, with fully gasless transactions and 10-second cryptographic verification that replaces traditional verification windows of one to six months. The platform is API-first and supports seamless integration into client systems, with a privacy-first architecture that exposes only irreversible document hashes to the internet. The company serves primarily government institutions and large enterprises, with notable deployments including the Maharashtra State Board of Skill Development (1.1M+ diploma certificates, described as the world's largest blockchain implementation for educational credentials), the Kenya National Examinations Council (15M+ academic records on Avalanche, planned to scale to 35M), the Office of Land Records in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh (750K+ land records serving 350K+ citizens), and Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra (65K+ caste certificates, India's first blockchain implementation for this document type). Across its deployments, the platform has managed over 300 million total credentials.

LegitDoc monetizes through SaaS subscriptions and quote-based enterprise contracts, with pricing not publicly disclosed. Its go-to-market combines direct enterprise field sales targeting government and institutional buyers with an API-first product-led motion that enables integration into existing client systems. Marketing relies primarily on thought-leadership content, case studies, and earned media coverage in outlets such as Business Standard, Cointelegraph, YourStory, and CoinMarketCap. The customer base is concentrated in government institutions across India (education, land records, district administration) and East Africa (Kenya), with secondary verticals targeted including financial institutions, healthcare providers, material testing labs, and the invoicing industry. The company holds a patent-filed invention related to document hashing methods and operates with a lean team of 1-10 employees, suggesting concentrated product focus and a sales-led motion rather than a heavy services or consulting model.

Revenue is not publicly disclosed. Two funding events appear in the record — InnovateIN48 (December 2022) and AIM Smart City (October 2020) — neither of which discloses a dollar amount, indicating the company may rely on grants, undisclosed equity rounds, or bootstrapped operations. The legal operating entity is Zupple Labs, under which LegitDoc operates alongside the LegitLedger sub-brand for custom private blockchain multi-organization collaboration applications. Founded in 2016 (per company history), LegitDoc's first major product launches and government deployments occurred in 2021-2022, followed by international expansion into Kenya in 2024-2026.

Name

LegitDoc

Legal name

Zupple Labs

Website

https://legitdoc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

LegitDoc is a blockchain-based SaaS platform, operating under Zupple Labs, that issues and verifies tamper-proof digital credentials for government institutions and enterprises across India and Kenya, supporting Ethereum, Polygon, and Avalanche blockchains.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Blockchain-based Digital Credential Management

NAICS

Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities (522320)

SIC

Finance Services (6199)

akta.pro primary industry

RWA Oracles, Data Attestation & Proof-of-Reserve/Proof-of-Collateral (FSADAEAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Governance, Controls & Policy Automation (GRC for Web3) (FSAPAJAG), Authorization & Permissions (delegation, allowances, capability-based access, session keys) (FSAPACAJ)

Keywords

• Blockchain credential management
• Digital document verification
• Tamper-proof certificates
• Verifiable credentials platform
• API-first blockchain platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Bengaluru

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: API-first platform for enterprises and governments to issue and manage tamper-proof records secured by blockchain, likely through subscription or usage-based pricing.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

LegitDoc is a scalable, API-first blockchain platform that enables enterprises and governments to issue and verify tamper-proof digital credentials. It supports Ethereum, Polygon, and Avalanche blockchains and provides fully gasless transactions so issuers do not need blockchain or cryptocurrency expertise. Documents are secured via irreversible cryptographic hashes stored on-chain, enabling 10-second verification globally versus traditional weeks-to-months timelines.

Product overview

LegitDoc is a single unified platform for tamper-proof digital credential management, built as part of the Zupple suite of products. The core offering is LegitDoc, which provides API-first infrastructure for issuing and verifying blockchain-secured documents in seconds. Alongside it, LegitLedger offers custom private blockchain applications for multi-organization collaboration. Together, these products enable governments and enterprises to replace paper-based and centralized digital systems with decentralized, tamper-proof credential verification.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• LegitLedger: Custom Private Blockchain Application to Streamline Multi-Organization Collaboration, part of the Zupple suite of products and services.

Products and services

• LegitDoc Scalable, API-first SaaS platform for enterprises and governments to issue and manage tamper-proof digital credentials secured by blockchain. Supports Ethereum, Polygon, and Avalanche blockchains with fully gasless transactions, enabling 10-second cryptographic verification of documents globally.
• LegitLedger Custom private blockchain application that streamlines multi-organization collaboration, part of the Zupple suite of products and services for enterprise blockchain use cases beyond credential management.

Quantifiable outcome

• 15+ million academic records anchored on blockchain with verification reduced from weeks/months to 10 seconds
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 August 2026KNEC partnered with LegitDoc to anchor 15+ million academic records on the Avalanche blockchain, covering KCPE, KCSE, diploma and teacher certification credentials dating back to 1989. This represents one of Africa's largest public-sector blockchain deployments, enabling cryptographic verification in seconds instead of previous one-to-six-month verification timelines.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Learning Machine (Blockcerts): Blockcerts is an open blockchain credentialing standard originally built by Learning Machine/MIT, issuing and verifying tamper-proof academic and professional credentials on blockchain. Like LegitDoc, it targets governments and institutions that need fraud-resistant, verifiable digital records, making it the closest direct peer.

Broad incumbents

• Parchment (Eidos Exchange): Parchment, owned by Instructure, is the dominant academic credential verification network in the US, used by universities and employers to exchange and verify degrees and transcripts. It competes with LegitDoc in the same educational-credential-verification use case but at much larger scale and without a public blockchain anchoring layer.
• Hyland Credentials (formerly Parchment): Hyland Credentials is a broad digital credentialing and content-services platform serving higher education and government agencies worldwide. It overlaps with LegitDoc in degree and certificate verification but offers a much wider product suite and lacks blockchain anchoring as a core feature.
• Credly: Credly, owned by Pearson, is a leading digital credentialing platform for issuing, managing, and verifying micro-credentials and certificates at enterprise scale. It addresses the same verifiable-credentials pain points LegitDoc solves (fraud, slow verification) and represents the kind of well-funded incumbent that could compress LegitDoc's opportunity.
• DocuSign: DocuSign is the leading electronic signature and digital agreement platform, serving enterprises and governments worldwide. While it focuses on signing workflows rather than blockchain-anchored credential verification, it competes for the same budget line in government digitization programs and could expand into verifiable credentialing.

Emerging players

• Concentric Sky (Badgr / Canvas Credentials): Concentric Sky builds Badgr and Canvas Credentials, open-standards digital badging and credentialing tools used by universities and training organizations. It is comparable to LegitDoc in targeting academic and skills credentials, but focuses on Open Badges rather than blockchain anchoring.
• Digital Credentials Consortium: An MIT-led consortium developing open standards (Learner Credential Wallet, CLR) for verifiable digital credentials across universities. It overlaps with LegitDoc in solving credential fraud and portability for academic records, and represents an emerging open-source alternative that could attract the same government and university buyers.

Regional players

• Aadhaar / UIDAI: India's UIDAI runs the Aadhaar national digital identity system, the dominant identity and document verification infrastructure for Indian residents. It is comparable to LegitDoc in providing tamper-resistant digital verification at population scale in India, but uses centralized architecture rather than blockchain anchoring.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/zupplelabs

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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