Name

Qiy Foundation

Legal name

Stichting Qiy Foundation

Website

https://qiyfoundation.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Identity Platform

NAICS

Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Private Foundations (BPAGAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Philanthropic & Charitable Trust Services (FSAAANAI)

Keywords

• Digital identity framework
• Personal data exchange
• Privacy by design
• Decentralised identity
• Trust framework licensing

Headquarters

HQ city

Boxtel

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Membership Fees - Supporter: Supporting Members provide a financial contribution to the continuity and further development of the Qiy Foundation and its infrastructure. Membership tiers range from €600/year for individuals to €50,000/year for large commercial organisations.
2. Membership Fees - Partner: Partners provide an annual contribution toward operational costs plus expertise and support from the Foundation. Includes predefined maximum support hours per year (technical, strategic, legal, organisational, and marketing). Partner fees range from €20,000 to €175,000/year.
3. Format Licensing: The Qiy Foundation licenses formats to partners such as Dappre for commercial implementation. The format for Score For Your Club (Dappre Clubs) was licensed to Dappre. The ID-Cover format was licensed to MVG Design.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The foundation develops, publishes and licenses the Qiy Trust Framework — an open, virtual network layer that lets individuals and organisations exchange verified personal data without a central database. It sells this framework to organisations through tiered Partner and Supporter memberships and through format-specific licences (Dappre Clubs, Qiy Foundation ID-Cover, Dutch Data Vault), and supports adoption by representing the framework at industry events and within European policy working groups.

Product overview

The Qiy Foundation offers the Qiy Trust Framework as its core product - a virtual network layer built on top of the internet that enables trust-based exchange of personal data under individual control. The framework comprises three interconnected components: the Qiy Trust Framework (the technical infrastructure), Qiy Node (the digital representation of connected users), and Qiy Trust Principles (the binding rules all participants must follow). Licensed products built on this framework include Dappre Clubs (a social organization funding platform) and the Dutch Data Vault (a cookie-free media profiling service). Additional formats under development include a Media Ecosystem for publishers, an AI-powered Debt control solution, and a Health and care data solution. The foundation publishes open technical standards and provides expertise to organizations seeking to implement privacy-by-design data exchange solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Dappre: A social network based on the Qiy Trust Principles where participants do not need to create an account and remain in control of their data. Launched in 2025 as the most socially engaged network in The Netherlands.
• Dutch Data Vault
• Dappre Clubs

Products and services

• Qiy Trust Framework An open, virtual network layer that lets individuals and organisations exchange verified personal data without a central database, using Privacy by Design and Privacy by Default with end-to-end encryption. It is licensed to and built upon by Partner Members across banking, government, media and healthcare.
• Qiy Foundation ID-Cover format A licensed Qiy-based format offering digital identity coverage to individuals, with the format licensed to MVG Design for commercial distribution.
• Dappre Clubs A licensed Qiy-based network that enables sports clubs, charities and their members to exchange verified personal data and engage socially without third-party tracking.
• Dutch Data Vault A partnership-enabled Qiy-based data locker that lets Dutch individuals and organisations store and exchange verified personal data under privacy-by-design conditions, operated by Stichting De Nederlandse Datakluis using the Qiy Trust Framework.

Quantifiable outcome

• Customer trust increases when individuals can control their data sharing
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Dutch Data Vault FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Qiy Foundation participated in preliminary research (2023-2024) for a privacy-friendly data locker for individual data subjects - a collaboration between publishers (DPG, RTL, Talpa, NPO, Mediahuis) to make the use of cookies obsolete.
• Talpa NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Since December 2020, Qiy Foundation advises Talpa Network on how to bring the human touch back into the online world through alternatives for online tracking and profiling. Talpa embraced the Qiy Trust Framework to empower consumers instead of relying on big data companies.
• DapprecoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 1 January 2020The 'Score For Your Club' format was licensed to Dappre in 2020. Dappre developed Dappre Clubs enabling local entrepreneurs, residents and clubs to benefit together while protecting personal data by design and by default. Since 2025, Dappre operates as 'The most socially engaged network in The Netherlands'.
• Dutch Sports Fund for People with DisabilitiesminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Since 2019, Qiy Foundation has been advising the Dutch Sports Fund for People with Disabilities (Fonds Gehandicaptensport) regarding their 'Uniek Sporten' initiative.
• MedMijcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Qiy Foundation participated in the legal ('data juridica') working group for the creation of a trust framework for MedMij, the Dutch standards for health data exchange, from 2017-2018.
• Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and SportcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2015The Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport co-financed the 2015 patient-controlled health data solution developed by Qiy Foundation for secure, transparent data exchange.
• MVG DesignminorOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 1 January 2013Qiy Foundation ID-Cover format developed in collaboration with Netherlands Association for Civil Affairs (NVVB) and licensed to MVG Design in September 2013.
• Nederlandse Vereniging voor Burgerzaken (NVVB)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013The Qiy Foundation ID-Cover format was developed in collaboration with the Netherlands Association for Civil Affairs (NVVB) in September 2013.
• InnopaycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013Qiy Foundation and Innopay organised a session with Members of the European Parliament ahead of the adoption of the GDPR in November 2013. Innopay was also a participant in Project 1111.
• Fiserv-CCVminorOthersFiserv-CCV is listed as a Dappre consulting partner since 2025.
• MastercardminorOthersMastercard is listed as a Dappre consulting partner since 2025.
• NOC*NSFminorOthersNOC*NSF (Dutch Olympic Committee*Dutch Sports Federation) is listed as a Dappre consulting partner since 2025.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• MyData Global: Non-profit organisation advocating for human-centric personal data management and fair data economy. Directly comparable to Qiy Foundation as both are membership-based foundations building frameworks, principles, and ecosystems that put individuals in control of their personal data.
• SOLID (Inrupt): Tim Berners-Lee-led initiative building decentralized personal data pods where individuals control their data. Operates via an open web standards approach similar to Qiy's Trust Framework, focusing on giving people agency over personal data via technology standards.
• Human Colossus Foundation: Swiss non-profit advancing open data ecosystems and personal data sovereignty through dataspaces and trust frameworks. Peer in building governance models and open infrastructure for trustworthy, individual-controlled data exchange.
• Open Data Institute: Non-profit founded by Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt to build trustworthy data ecosystems and data trust frameworks. Highly comparable to Qiy's mission of institutionalising human-centric, trust-based data exchange.
• Sovrin Foundation: Non-profit foundation stewarding a decentralized identity trust framework using self-sovereign identity (SSI) principles. Comparable as a foundation-led trust governance model focused on individual control over digital identity and personal data.

Emerging players

• IDunion: European non-profit consortium building decentralised digital identity infrastructure using SSI for industry and public sector use cases. Overlapping technology stack and trust framework objectives with Qiy, but more nascent and infrastructure-focused.
• PersonalData.EU / Personal Data Ecosystem Coalition: Advocacy coalition championing personal data sovereignty and human-centric data infrastructure in Europe. Peer in mission and ecosystem-building function, though primarily advocacy-focused rather than building a technical trust framework.

Regional players

• MedMij / Stichting MedMij: Dutch foundation managing the trust framework and standards for patient-controlled health data exchange, with which Qiy Foundation collaborated in the legal/data working group (2017-2018). Closely comparable as a regional trust framework authority operating in a specific vertical.

Others

• Innopay: Dutch consultancy specialising in digital identity, payments, and data sharing, co-organised an MEP session with Qiy Foundation ahead of GDPR adoption and participated in Project 1111. Closely allied ecosystem participant in the same regulatory and trust-framework space.

Broad incumbents

• European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet) / eIDAS: EU-wide public initiative under eIDAS 2.0 providing citizens with a digital identity wallet for accessing public and private services. Comparable as a trust framework for individual digital identity, but operating at EU institutional scale rather than as an independent foundation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/qiy-foundation
• GitHubgithub.com/qiyfoundation
• Xx.com/qiyfoundation

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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