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SAPIO in one sentence
SAPIO is a Swiss company that lets schools, universities and training providers issue tamper-proof digital certificates that learners keep in their own wallet and employers verify in seconds.
About SAPIO
SAPIO GmbH, based in Unterägeri in the Canton of Zug, builds digital credential infrastructure for education and the labour market. Institutions use SAPIO to issue verifiable credentials, such as certificates, diplomas and micro-credentials, in the open formats used by swiyu, the Swiss federal wallet, and the EU Digital Identity Wallet: SD-JWT VC, OpenID4VCI and OpenID4VP. Learners keep the credentials in their own wallet; employers and other institutions check them without contacting the issuer. SAPIO grew out of a project at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), is a consortium partner in the EU large-scale pilot WE BUILD and a member of DIDAS, the Swiss digital trust association, where it leads the Education Working Group.
Key facts
- Legal name
- SAPIO GmbH
- Registered
- 19 February 2025, commercial register of the Canton of Zug
- Seat
- Unterägeri, Canton of Zug, Switzerland
- UID
- CHE-177.739.827
- Founders
- Matteo Demasi (CEO), Sibille Scherrer, Giuseppe Demasi
- Origin
- Project at HSLU, Best Bachelor Project 2023 in Information & Cyber Security
- Standards
- SD-JWT VC, OpenID4VCI, OpenID4VP, did:webvh, European Learning Model
- Networks
- WE BUILD consortium partner (EUDI Wallet large-scale pilot); DIDAS member, lead of the Education Working Group
- Milestones
- EU.ACE cross-border pilot; first SAPIO credential in swiyu, federal sandbox, October 2026
- Recognition
- Winner HR Tech Jungle 2025, Berlin; finalist FIDES Global Digital Trust Awards 2026, Global Collaboration; finalist Zuger JungUnternehmerpreis; Swiss Made Software label
Coverage
- Digital Trust in Practice 2026: the EU.ACE Chain, one of 24 finalists from 99 submissions in 29 countries
- Global Digital Trust Community Awards 2026: finalist in Global Collaboration with the EU.ACE Chain
- Cross-Border Micro-Credentials: The EU.ACE Chain (EU–CH)
- Der CV zeigt zu wenig – das wird zum Problem (by Matteo Demasi)
- TrustXchange: research on cross-border verification of educational credentials, with HSLU spin-off SAPIO
- Builder spotlight: Sapio
- SAPIO – Digitale Identitäten neu denken und sicher gestalten
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