Kivra
Kivra is a Stockholm-based digital mailbox platform that serves Swedish consumers with a free secure inbox for personal and government mail, while charging connected businesses and government agencies to send digital correspondence.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2010
- HeadquartersStockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
- Headcount101–250
- GTM typeB2B and B2C
- OfferingSoftware
What Kivra does
Kivra AB is a Stockholm-based digital mailbox platform founded in 2010 that operates as a two-sided marketplace for consumer and business/government correspondence in Sweden. The platform serves individual Swedish consumers with a free digital mailbox for receiving letters, invoices, receipts, payslips, and government documents, while charging connected companies and government agencies to send digital communications to their customers and citizens. As of the source data, Kivra reports 6,449,182 registered users (over half of Sweden's population), 59,359–60,000 connected senders, and 3,543,135,074 documents processed through the platform.
The core product is a secure digital mailbox accessible via mobile app (iOS and Android) and web, with end-to-end encryption and a self-serve onboarding flow that takes approximately one minute. The product suite has expanded well beyond basic mail into tax returns and tax refunds, government mail (Myndighetspost), digital invoices with integrated payments, digital receipts, payslips, shared household mailboxes, document uploads, expense management, credit reports, identity monitoring, and a offers module. Kivra Företag is a separate business-facing product that enables companies to send digital communications to private individuals through the platform's infrastructure, with API integrations to enterprise and government senders.
Kivra's revenue model is a freemium/transaction-fee hybrid: consumers pay nothing, while businesses and government agencies pay sender fees to distribute documents through Kivra. The customer base spans Swedish government agencies (Skatteverket, Försäkringskassan, Pensionsmyndigheten, CSN) and major enterprises across banking, insurance, energy, and credit reporting (ICA Banken, Skandia, Vattenfall, Folksam, Creditsafe, UC). Operations are concentrated in Sweden with no disclosed geographic expansion, and the company is privately held with 189 employees. No funding rounds, M&A, or external ownership information is disclosed in the source material.
Kivra firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Kivra
- Legal name
- Kivra AB
- Website
- https://kivra.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2010
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 101–250 employees
- Short description
- Kivra is a Stockholm-based digital mailbox platform that serves Swedish consumers with a free secure inbox for personal and government mail, while charging connected businesses and government agencies to send digital correspondence.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Kivra industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Digital Mailbox & Document Management
- NAICS
- Private Mail Centers (561431)
- SIC
- Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)
- akta.pro primary industry
- P.O. Boxes & Virtual Mailboxes (TLAAAAAG)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- Government & Public Service Mail (Official Communications, Elections) (TLAAAAAN)
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Where Kivra is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Stockholm, Stockholm
- HQ country
- Sweden
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices1 record
Markets served
Kivra business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B and B2C
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations
Revenue model
- Consumer Service (Free Tier): Free digital mailbox service for individual consumers. Users receive mail from connected senders at no charge.
- Business Sender Fees: Companies and government agencies pay to send digital documents through Kivra to their customers/citizens. This creates a two-sided marketplace revenue model where senders pay for the digital distribution service.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Freemium | Monthly | Free Personal Account |
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels3 records
Marketing channels1 record
Kivra product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Kivra operates a centralized digital mailbox platform that allows Swedish consumers to receive, store, and manage letters, invoices, receipts, payslips, tax declarations, and official government correspondence digitally. On the supply side, the platform enables Swedish companies and government agencies to send digital documents to their customers and citizens in place of paper mail, charging senders for the digital distribution service while the consumer-facing mailbox remains free.
Product overview
Kivra is a unified digital mailbox platform for Swedish consumers and businesses. The core platform provides a centralized hub for receiving and managing important documents including digital mail from companies and government agencies, tax returns, invoices, receipts, and payslips. The product ecosystem includes the main Kivra Private consumer platform with multiple integrated services: Digital Post (digital mailbox), Myndighetspost (government mail), Deklarationen (tax returns), Digitala kvitton (digital receipts), Digitala fakturor och betalningar (invoices and payments), and Lönebesked (payslips). Additional modules enhance the core offering with features like Uppladdningar (document uploads), Delad brevlåda (shared mailbox), Utläggshantering (expense management), Erbjudanden (offers), Kreditupplysningar (credit reports), and Id-bevakning (identity monitoring). For businesses, Kivra Företag provides a separate platform for sending digital communications. The platform emphasizes security, accessibility, and environmental sustainability with encrypted data storage and paper reduction.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- Digital Post (Digital brevlåda)
Companies that use Kivra
Customer profileNamed customers10 records
Segments3 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
Kivra technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature10 records
Kivra partnerships and signals
Strategic signalScale indicators5 records
Recent moves5 records
Expansion highlights5 records
Kivra competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- DocuSign: Global leader in digital agreements and electronic signature with adjacent document workflow capabilities. Broader incumbent whose eSignature and Intelligent Agreement Management overlap with Kivra's document-handling and approval use cases at the enterprise level.
- PostNord: Sweden's and the Nordics' primary postal and logistics incumbent, operating physical delivery as well as digital communication services. Competes with Kivra on digital mailbox services from a position of physical-network scale.
Emerging players
- Signicat: Nordic-based digital identity and electronic signature provider serving banks, governments and businesses across Europe. Comparable in trust services, identity verification and regulated document delivery that underpins Kivra's security layer.
- Tink: Sweden-based open banking platform (now part of Visa) enabling account aggregation, payments initiation and transaction data. Comparable in connecting consumer financial data and payment flows within Sweden, an adjacent capability to Kivra's payments and credit features.
Direct peers
- e-Boks: Denmark's leading digital mailbox platform used by citizens, businesses and public authorities to send and receive secure digital post. Directly comparable to Kivra as a Nordic digital mailbox with government integrations and a similar two-sided business model.
- Eget Ansvar / Strålfri (PostNord digital mail): PostNord's digital mailbox offering in Sweden targeting the same consumer and enterprise digital-post use cases as Kivra, leveraging the parent's physical postal infrastructure.
- Digipost (Posten Norge): Norwegian digital mailbox operated by the national postal operator, used for secure digital post from public agencies and businesses. Closest direct competitor to Kivra in a neighbouring Nordic market with the same consumer and government use cases.
Regional players
- Suomi.fi Messages: Finnish government-run secure digital mailbox for official communications from public authorities. Comparable to Kivra's Myndighetspost service but state-owned and limited to government correspondence.
- Civi Mail / De-Mail: German regulated secure electronic mail service for confidential digital communication between citizens, businesses and government. Comparable in product category (secure digital mailbox) but operating in a different regulatory and geographic environment.
- Netox (Netletter / Verkkoposti): Finnish digital mailbox service provider enabling secure electronic correspondence between consumers and businesses/government. Comparable Nordic private operator competing against state and bank-led alternatives.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
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Kivra leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Kivra funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Kivra M&A and investment
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Investments
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Frequently asked questions about Kivra
What does Kivra do?
Kivra operates a centralized digital mailbox platform that allows Swedish consumers to receive, store, and manage letters, invoices, receipts, payslips, tax declarations, and official government correspondence digitally. On the supply side, the platform enables Swedish companies and government agencies to send digital documents to their customers and citizens in place of paper mail, charging senders for the digital distribution service while the consumer-facing mailbox remains free.
Is Kivra a public or private company?
Kivra is a private company. It is classified as unknown and is currently operating.
When was Kivra founded?
Kivra was founded in 2010. It employs 101 to 250 people.
Where is Kivra based?
Kivra is headquartered in Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, in the Europe region.
How does Kivra make money?
Two revenue lines are on record. Consumer Service (Free Tier) is the primary driver. The others are business Sender Fees.
Who are Kivra's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are DocuSign and PostNord. Emerging players are Signicat and Tink. Direct peers are e-Boks, Eget Ansvar / Strålfri (PostNord digital mail) and Digipost (Posten Norge). Regional players are Suomi.fi Messages, Civi Mail / De-Mail and Netox (Netletter / Verkkoposti).
Does Kivra have an API?
No public API is recorded for Kivra.
What industry is Kivra in?
Kivra's product category is Digital Mailbox & Document Management. Its primary akta.pro industry code is TLAAAAAG, P.O. Boxes & Virtual Mailboxes, with a secondary code of TLAAAAAN, Government & Public Service Mail (Official Communications, Elections). Its NAICS code is 561431 and its SIC code is 7370.