Legium

Legium.io - creator of online signature service

History

2021:10 million rubles of investments from Denis Alenin

The startup Legium.io attracted 10 million rubles in exchange for a share of 4.5% of business angel Denis Alenin. Since 2020, the Legium.io estimate has almost doubled and amounts to 222 million rubles. This was announced on August 9, 2021 by Sber.

Legium.io - an electronic document management service with remote identification, which accelerates and simplifies the process of signing documents compared to systems using qualified electronic signatures. This is especially important for companies with a large number of self-employed employees: logistics and courier services, educational platforms, advertising agencies. As of August 2021, about 30 thousand legal entities use the service, about a million documents have already been signed on the platform.

The funds raised will be used to expand the functionality of the service. In addition to signing documents, the function of their automatic generation will appear, as well as the option of concluding contracts for the purchase financial of products (,, crediting insurance bank deposits). In 2022, the startup plans to enter the markets. countries CIS

According to our estimates, no more than 10% of companies use electronic document management (EDO) systems in their work. Among the reasons that hinder the widespread implementation of electronic systems, business representatives cite the complexity and duration of the process of connecting and configuring a qualified electronic signature. And the situation in the market for EDO systems may worsen with the introduction of restrictions on the issuance of electronic signatures through tax authorities in 2022. Legium.io is an alternative method of legally signing documents that does not require efforts to make and connect, "said Ivan Khaustov, Founder, Managing Partner Legium.io.

We at Asap.digital help large companies with promotion on the Internet, including working with bloggers. Most of them are self-employed and IP. For them to make a qualified signature and start using it - a whole quest and loss of time. We solved this problem with the help of Legium.io. I believe that the transition to remote signatures in the very near future will become ubiquitous, so I decided to become not only a client, but also a partner in the promotion of the service, "said Denis Alenin, Business Angel, CEO of Asap.digital advertising agency.

2020: Sberbank bought 8.06% of Legium for 10 million rubles

May 25, 2020 it became known about the investment of 10 million rubles Sberbank in Legium. We are talking about the first deal to invest the state bank in startups that won its accelerator 500 Startups 2019.

According to Kommersant, citing a statement by Sberbank, in exchange for investment, an 8.06 percent stake in Legium will be received. Other details of the agreement are not disclosed.

Sberbank invested in Legium electronic document management service

The publication cites data from the SPARK-Interfax system, according to which 85% of Legium LLC belonged to Ivan Khaustov, 15% to Alexander Trifonov. Data on the new owners of the electronic document management service after the deal with Sberbank have not been updated by May 25.

Over the past month, the growth of activity on the platform, according to its own data, amounted to 300%, among its customers - Dodo Pizza, the platform for the self-employed Roket Work, SberLogistics and even more than 200 Russian companies, according to a publication dated May 25, 2020.^[1]

Legium has developed  a contactless electronic document management service with remote identification.  Users can remotely sign an agreement with a supplier, issue an act with a freelancer, or transfer an employee to remote work. 

Remote authentication is free for customers. Legal entities and entrepreneurs must pay 1 ruble from the settlement account. Individuals just send selfies with a passport, say in Legium.io.

The neural network checks the photos for compliance and the presence of fakes. In addition, the passport data and the ownership of the phone number by the user are checked. In a word, identification as in carsharing, stated in the company.

Once the document is signed by both parties , the Legium.io  automatically generates an online signature certificate that you can print. In addition, a "congratulatory" message comes to all parties to the transaction.

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