Hanko

🇪🇺 European

Kiel software company building open-source passkey authentication

Hanko GmbH is a German software company founded in Kiel in 2018 by Felix Magedanz, registered at the Kiel district court under HRB 19885 KI. It builds open-source authentication infrastructure centred on passkeys and the WebAuthn standard, released under AGPL-3.0 with MIT-licensed frontend components.

The company also runs Hanko Cloud, a hosted version served from Frankfurt. Its investors are German — High-Tech Gründerfonds, Smart Infrastructure Ventures, and adesso Ventures, alongside angels from PAYONE and Intershop. There is no parent company.

https://www.hanko.io

Location: Germany

Products

Hanko

Passkey-first authentication API with open-source, self-hosted core

replaces Auth0