Bindle Systems

Bindle was founded in June 2020 on the premise that an emerging technology - verifiable credentials - could, at long last, fill one of the remaining holes in the Internet’s infrastructure: the lack of an identity layer. Our first application, a COVID-19 "health pass”, proved the commercial viability of verifiable credentials while also delivering an essential tool to help reopen the economy: private and portable proof of health. Hundreds of health care institutions issued vaccination and test credentials on Bindle and hundreds of enterprise customers used Bindle to verify these credentials - including The Chicago Symphony, Dartmouth College, Dead & Company, The Kennedy Center, San Diego State University, and The White House Correspondents Dinner. Within 18 months of launch, Bindle became the largest private deployment of verifiable credentials in the United States. We are now expanding the platform to help society navigate the coming explosion of AI-driven misinformation, disinformation, deep fakes, and increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. Within the next few years, we believe it will be difficult to know whether you can trust the websites you visit or the texts and emails you receive. Similarly, sites and apps will have a very difficult time discerning humans from bots and “good” bots from “bad” bots. In this new world, verifiable credentials - specifically “proof of personhood” and “proof of identity” - will be critical in the fight to keep the Internet trustworthy and useful. While it may seem unimaginable today, you will soon be required to constantly prove that you are human and that you are who you claim to be. We have two offerings: Our verifiable credential platform (Bindle-branded or white-labeled) Consulting services - for more customized deployments Bindle is led by successful serial entrepreneurs who have also held executive product and technology roles at AOL, American Express, Samsung, and Time Warner.