About Zynyo
Zynyo makes secure, legally valid and responsible digital signing simple and accessible to everyone
The Origins of Zynyo
In 2015, co-founder Arjan Engbers, the current Chief Technology Officer, observed a paradox: organizations were increasingly operating digitally, yet signatures were often still being made on paper. Our solution? A secure and reliable digital signature that eliminates even the last remaining paper-based process and makes the workflow fully digital.
Ambition
The starting point was to develop a platform that would be entirely in-house, with the highest level of security as a requirement. In addition, Zynyo felt it was important that everything related to this SigningService be and remain under Dutch control, including the application, infrastructure, and hosting. After two years and countless iterations, a platform emerged that is both highly secure and user-friendly.
Team
Arjan Engbers played a key role in the creation of SigningService. In 2017, Michiel Geerdink joined the company as CEO and shareholder, following a successful career in the financial sector. Under his leadership, Zynyo grew and forged important partnerships. Today, Zynyo consists of several team members, most of whom are shareholders.
Mission
Zynyo’s mission is to make legally valid, secure, and responsible digital document signing accessible and feasible for everyone. Our organization is committed to long-term partnerships and creating added value for customers and users. This is reflected in our flexible contracts and pricing. At Zynyo, we continue to optimize our signing processes, with the goal of making them as intuitive as possible—so that users find them easy to use and have as few questions as possible.
Confidential Counseling Services
In addition to digital signing, organizations can use the following services:
- Sending digital certified emails: provides certainty regarding both the delivery and receipt of important documents.
- Digital sealing: ensures the authenticity and integrity of documents with a digital organizational seal.
- Digital identification: provides online proof of the other party’s identity.
What makes Zynyo unique
A Dutch organization with its own high-quality infrastructure
Zynyo uses proprietary software and infrastructure, ensuring that all data—including personal data—is processed entirely within the Netherlands. The service is closely tailored to the functional needs of Dutch customers. Zynyo also places great emphasis on Dutch solutions for online identification.
Complies with strict laws and regulations
Zynyo complies with European and Dutch eIDAS legislation on digital signatures. All levels of digital signatures—standard, advanced, and qualified—are available. In addition, Zynyo complies with the GDPR and is ISO 27001 certified.
Every signed document is accompanied by a Deed of Signature (audit trail) that records every step of the signing process. This document is irrefutably secured with a eSeal , which guarantees its integrity and authenticity.
Ease of use and integration
Zynyo’s SigningService can be integrated into an organization’s existing application, allowing employees to start using it immediately without any special training. Signed documents are automatically returned to the application, improving efficiency and streamlining archiving. In addition, signing requests can be further secured with 2FA authentication, ensuring that only the intended recipients have access to the content.
Transparent pricing structure
Zynyo uses a clear and user-friendly pricing structure, under which you generally pay only for actual usage. In addition, custom settings are available, ensuring that signature requests are clearly identifiable as coming from your organization.
Vision
Our vision is that legally valid digital signing is the final step in the full automation of document processing. And thus a major step toward the complete digitization of organizations. Digital signing is evolving rapidly, and reliability, security, and legal validity must be ensured. To achieve this, three pillars are of paramount importance: platform, policy, and partnership. These are our guiding principles in everything we do, design, and develop.
Platform
The perfect platform for digital signing offers high availability and can process large volumes of signatures. No waiting times for our customers. The platform features a flexible configuration, allowing us to respond effectively to both our customers’ needs and changing legislation. Customers can use all available and reliable means of identification. The platform has its own in-house, high-end, scalable infrastructure that is future-proof for developments in the field of digital signing.
Policy
The second pillar, “policy,” underscores our commitment to ensuring that Zynyo’s services consistently comply with all applicable laws and regulations, both national and international. This also means that we issue and manage our own certificates, as well as manage certificates on behalf of our clients. “Policy” further ensures that we always sign with the appropriate levels of assurance.
Partnership
Partnership refers to the relationship and interactions we have with our customers and partners. The starting point for integrating digital signatures is the existing customer process, combined with legal requirements. Connecting to our platform is straightforward and has minimal impact on our customers. In addition, new functional requirements must be made available quickly, and we position ourselves as a knowledge partner for our business partners.
Innovating with an eye to the future
At Zynyo, our passion for the product is at the heart of everything we do. We are always on the lookout for innovations that deliver added value to our customers. For example, we were the first to integrate iDIN for authentication, the first to introduce eWallet (IRMA/Yivi), and the first to bring a PKIcloud certificate (Cleverbase) to market.
We continue to look ahead. For example, we are participating in the HAPKIDO consortium with TNO to prepare for the emergence of quantum computers. In addition, we are developing sector-specific innovations, such as the signing process for the KNB for the digital incorporation of a private limited company, implemented in collaboration with multiple PKI cloud providers.
