Evernym that has been acquired by Avast (now called Gen) has provided seed investment to cheqd to stand up the team and company operations, along with other investors. They are also a close partner to cheqd, where they will be contributing significant software development effort, product management effort, and ecosystem governance support to help fulfil cheqd’s mission. We are glad to have a strong pioneer in the self-sovereign identity space as a partner as we build out the mechanisms for making decentralised identity financially viable. cheqd will also leverage Evernym’s expertise in building products in a collaborative fashion with open source communities.