Bluink Ltd.

Bluink builds eID-Me, a smartphone-resident digital identity wallet that lets individuals enroll once through remote identity verification and then carry government-grade credentials — mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) built to the ISO 18013-5 standard and ICAO Digital Travel Credentials — directly on their phone. The wallet binds credentials to the device’s native biometric and passcode protections, letting users authenticate password-free to supported websites or present proof of identity in person without handing over a physical document.

Founded in 2010 and based in Ottawa, Bluink built eID-Me in partnership with the Government of Ontario after winning a C$1.2 million award through the province’s Small Business Innovation Challenge, working alongside Crypto4A, Canadian POS, and Carleton University. The company later partnered with RBC to bring digital identity verification to Canadian banking customers. Bluink is a small, focused team (roughly two dozen people) operating in a segment — consumer-controlled mobile identity credentials — that larger IAM vendors have been slower to productize.

For CISOs, Bluink is most relevant as a building block for reducing reliance on shared secrets and physical documents in identity-proofing and authentication flows, particularly for organizations serving Canadian consumers or government-adjacent use cases. Its adherence to ISO 18013-5 and ICAO DTC standards means credentials it issues are designed to interoperate with the broader mobile-ID ecosystem rather than locking customers into a proprietary format.