Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2025: PassiveBolt

PassiveBolt

Headquarters: Michigan

CEO: Kabir Maiga

Website: PassiveBolt

Founding date: 2019

Investment: $5 million

PassiveBolt intends to revolutionize the hospitality industry with KeyShare, a universal, decentralized identity platform. KeyShare empowers guests to manage their own data while enabling hotels to accept digital IDs, authorize access to spaces with proof-of-identity, deliver personalized experiences, streamline operations and eliminate data privacy risks.

Founder Kabir Maiga, not pictured co-founders Mike Johnson, Victoria Crosby and Simon Forster

Strategic goals for 2025

The world is moving towards digital identity, where individuals and organizations can prove who they are online and offline with greater security and convenience. With KeyShare, we provide hotels with a secure and privacy-preserving platform for universally accepting government issued Digital IDs to enable personalization and physical access to authorized spaces.

Lessons learned since founding

Building a successful startup requires a combination of vision, resilience, and adaptability. We've learned the importance of listening to our customers, iterating on our product and building a strong team that shares our passion for innovation. Above all, we believe in the power of collaboration and the importance of building trust with our partners and users.