French Legal Tech Startup Legapass is Solving the Digital Mortality Crisis
The Digital Afterlife Has Become a Legal Problem
Death used to leave behind physical assets that could be inventoried, valued, and transferred through established legal processes. Today, a person’s estate can also contain cryptocurrency, online accounts, investment platforms, digital documents, passwords, intellectual property, and access credentials. Finding and transferring these assets can become considerably harder when family members or notaries do not know they exist.
Legapass is tackling this problem by creating technology designed to help individuals organise their physical and digital wealth while helping professionals identify assets that may otherwise remain hidden. Its approach effectively treats a person’s digital footprint as another part of their estate, bringing information that traditionally sits across disconnected platforms into a more structured succession process.
Legapass Turns Digital Inheritance Into Something That Can Be Planned
Legapass offers individuals a digital vault where they can map their assets, record access information, add instructions, and decide what should eventually be shared with trusted beneficiaries. The platform is designed to include everything from conventional wealth and important documents to cryptocurrencies and digital accounts. Its model also addresses one of the biggest challenges of digital inheritance: security.
Rather than simply giving someone a list of passwords, Legapass is designed so that information remains protected until the appropriate succession conditions are met. In its process, the identity of the designated beneficiary and legal documents such as a death certificate can be verified before the encrypted contents of the vault are transferred, with a partner bailiff providing the decryption key. This creates a controlled bridge between digital security and the legal requirements surrounding inheritance.
From Digital Safes to Finding Assets That Heirs Did Not Know Existed
Legapass is also expanding the other side of the inheritance equation: helping professionals discover assets in the first place. Its Legapass Radar solution is designed for notaries handling estates and divorces, helping identify previously unknown assets and generate a research report through the professional’s existing workflow. The company says more than one in four estates risks missing an important asset, potentially leading to financial losses, reopening of an estate, or delays.
Its platform has reported discoveries involving assets ranging from Binance and Coinbase accounts to overseas property, insurance, companies, and investment platforms. Legapass has also been certified by France’s Conseil Supérieur du Notariat, while Adnexus, a subsidiary of the ADSN group, has joined its capital to support innovation in wealth transmission.
Legapass Is Building a Broader Legal Technology Platform
The company’s ambitions extend beyond inheritance. Legapass now provides a suite of compliance products aimed at regulated professionals dealing with anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing obligations. VigiNot targets notaries, VigImmo serves real-estate professionals, VigiLexi is designed for lawyers, and VigiCab addresses accountants. These tools automate checks across sources such as beneficial ownership records, sanctions lists, politically exposed persons, corporate information, and other public databases.
Legapass says its systems can consolidate these checks and preserve an auditable record of the work, while its infrastructure is designed around French data hosting, processing, and archiving. This broader product strategy gives Legapass a position between traditional legal workflows and the increasingly data-intensive compliance environment surrounding regulated professions.
Solving the Digital Mortality Crisis Means Making Digital Wealth Legible
The deeper problem Legapass is addressing is not simply what happens to someone’s passwords after death. It is the growing disconnect between the legal concept of an estate and the digital reality of modern life. Assets can exist across dozens of platforms, while critical information can remain invisible to heirs and difficult for professionals to locate. Cryptocurrency makes the problem even more acute because access can depend on credentials and private keys rather than a conventional bank relationship. Legapass has already partnered with crypto platform Meria to address the succession of digital assets, reflecting how inheritance is evolving alongside new forms of wealth.
As digital assets become a more significant component of personal and business wealth, the ability to identify, secure, document, and eventually transfer them will become increasingly important. Legapass is betting that the legal system needs new digital infrastructure to keep pace with that reality. Its proposition is ultimately straightforward: if modern life exists partly online, modern inheritance needs to know how to follow it there.