Securing Europe's Digital Autonomy

My name is Chidinma Egbukichi, and I am the founder of SovCore. I began my career at the heart of the U.S. tech ecosystem—from technical roles at Pinterest to founding roles at venture-backed startups in Silicon Valley. With degrees from MIT and Columbia, I’ve spent years building systems designed for scale. However, since moving to Europe, I’ve realized that the next frontier isn’t just about scale, it’s about assurance.

Recent large-scale breaches in the Netherlands have only reinforced my conviction: the "trusted" central server model is structurally flawed. The future of high-assurance data cannot rely on the promises of a provider. We need a model built on mathematical certainty. With the arrival of the European Digital Identity Wallet (eIDAS 2.0) and the NIS2 Directive, we finally have the tools to build a truly sovereign alternative.

Most "secure" cloud providers operate on a foundation of faith, promising not to access your data while maintaining the technical ability to do so. In the current threat landscape, this reliance on trust is both a design flaw and a significant liability. For a law firm handling a confidential M&A deal or a clinic managing sensitive medical records, the status quo of trusting a provider's promise of privacy is no longer acceptable.

This architecture replaces the 'trusted third party' with mathematical verification, ensuring that confidentiality is maintained through provable security rather than organizational policy. We are starting here in the Netherlands, launching for the legal and medical sectors, with plans to scale across the European Union. If you share this vision for digital autonomy, I'd love to connect.