Yousign launches in Germany

The French start-up Yousign is coming to Germany and wants to make digital signatures the standard.

Luc Pallavidino and Antoine Louiset founded the start-up Yousign in France in 2013 and are now launching it on the German market. Yousign offers a digital signature for all sectors, but focuses primarily on those with a large number of contracts, such as human resources: "There is no way around electronic signatures here, especially in the current home office situation," says Dominik Drechsler, Head of Germany.

Allianz and Roland Berger are among the more than 5,000 customers to date. In Germany, "we see ourselves at the forefront of digitizing all work processes - at the end of which electronic signatures are often used," says Drechsler about the company's expansion in Germany. Yousign currently employs 90 people.

"Although digital signatures are shaping the future of work, market penetration in Europe is only 20 percent," says Drechsler. However, growth of up to 25 percent per year is expected. Yousign is a certified provider of electronic signatures, electronic time stamps and electronic server seals and a member of the Trusted List (EUTL) of trust service providers published by the European Commission.