SpruceID Blog · Apr 2026
SpruceID submitted comments to NIST on software and AI agent identity/authorization, arguing for cryptographic identity, delegated authority, and credential-based capability models for agents.
SpruceID lets users control their data across the web.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
SpruceID (Spruce Systems, Inc.) builds privacy-preserving digital trust infrastructure and open-source verifiable-credential tooling for governments and enterprises, centered on digital IDs, wallets, authentication, and legacy-system integration.
Primary product
Digital trust infrastructure and verifiable-credential tooling (SpruceKit, wallets, issuance and verification)
Founded
2020
Headquarters
New York, NY, United States
Team size
11-50
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Digital identity and verifiable credential infrastructure
Offices
228 Park Avenue S #28788, New York, NY 10003, United States (HQ)
Business model
B2G software
B2B software
professional services / implementation
open-source infrastructure
Funding
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$41.6M
Latest round
Series A · Apr 2022
Latest amount
$34M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Director, Head of Operations
Director, Head of Marketing
Director, Head of Delivery
Founders
Co-Founder and former CPO; current Advisor
Work & culture
Mission-driven, standards-based, open-source, privacy-preserving, and user-first; emphasizes real-world public-sector impact, collaborative implementation with agencies, and secure engineering practices.
Work style
Remote
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public job postings show roughly $110K-$225K base salaries plus equity for U.S.-remote roles; examples include new grad full-stack $110K-$150K, full-stack $120K-$200K, senior mobile $140K-$180K, senior forward-deployed $150K-$175K, and principal forward-deployed $200K-$225K.
Benefits
equity
performance-based bonuses
remote-first US-based roles
regular 1:1s and feedback
project ownership
async collaboration
support and guardrails for early-career engineers
benefits package
Product & market
Pricing
Custom enterprise/government contracts and implementation projects; public pricing not disclosed.
Differentiators
- —Open-source, standards-based credential infrastructure
- —Privacy-preserving selective disclosure
- —Interoperability across web2/web3 and government systems
- —Last-mile implementation with agencies and legacy systems
- —Rust-first memory-safe stack
- —Supports mDL and W3C VC formats
- —Wallet, issuance, verification, and gateway components
- —Public-sector domain expertise
Technology
Rust
W3C Verifiable Credentials
Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)
OpenID4VP
OID4VCI
ISO/IEC 18013-5
ISO/IEC 18013-7
mDL / mobile driver's licenses
Sign-In with Ethereum (EIP-4361)
DIDKit
SpruceKit
Android
iOS
Flutter
Kotlin
Swift
Objective-C
Dart
W3C Digital Credentials API
Customers
California DMV
Utah Department of Government Operations
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
state and local government agencies
financial institutions
enterprises
web3 projects such as TIMEPieces and Tally
Competitors
HYPR
Magic
Trulioo
Socure
Veriff
Onfido
Mitek Systems
Signicat
Acuant
AU10TIX
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
USD 1M-$10M (public profile estimate; other third-party estimates vary)
Estimated monthly visits
4K
Latest news
SpruceID Blog · Mar 2026
SpruceID described its collaboration with NIST NCCoE on a reference architecture for using mobile driver's licenses in financial services, including account opening and high-risk verification.
Biometric Update · Dec 2025
Biometric Update covered Wayne Chang’s NAPHSIS talk on verifiable digital credentials as public infrastructure for vital-records modernization.
SpruceID Blog · Dec 2025
SpruceID highlighted Wayne Chang’s NAPHSIS presentation on privacy-preserving digital verification and the role of verifiable credentials in vital-records modernization.
ID Tech · Oct 2024
ID Tech reported on DHS collaboration with SpruceID to improve privacy and interoperability for digital credential wallets and verifiers for travel, immigration, and employment verification.
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