WISeKey was named one of the 2011 AlwaysOn Global 250 emerging private companies that are creating new business opportunities in the global technology. AlwaysOn – the leading producer of world-class conferences for venture investors and entrepreneurs of emerging private companies – has a proven track record of predicting companies that will represent the biggest business investment and deals over the next 12 months. The companies selected for the AlwaysOn Global 250 represent the top private companies that are demonstrating significant market traction and pursuing game-changing technology in Cloud and Infrastructure, Consumer Internet, Digital Education, Digital Media, Enabling Tools and Devices, Greentech, and SaaS and Enterprise.
WISeKey is recognized for its innovation in the category of Cloud and Infrastructure. Several previous winners are OpSource (Cloud and Infrastructure), GroupOn (Consumer Internet), FreeWheel (Digital Media), Bloom Energy (Greentech) and Appirio (SaaS and Enterprise). The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process before finalizing the 2011 list. WISeKey and the other Global 250 winners will be honored at the Silicon Valley Innovation Summit 2011 the July 27-28, 2011 at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California.
The list is selected by AlwaysOn editors in collaboration with partners at Manatt, Morgan Stanley, the Blackstone Group, KPMG, Silicon Valley Bank, Sonnenschein, and Bridge Bank, as well as industry experts across the globe. Judges recognize honorees based on market opportunity, nature of innovation, media buzz and awareness, commercialization and ability to create stakeholder value.
“After examining the companies that are on the AO Global 250 list, it’s obvious that innovation is not only alive and well in the Global Silicon Valley, it’s accelerating in economic power and scope,” says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “The companies certainly represent some of the highest-growth opportunities in the private company marketplace.”
“We are proud to be selected as an AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner. This award highlights WISeKey’s contribution to make the Internet a safer place to participate by delivering trusted identities and secure infrastructures. More people are using WISeIDs to protect their personal data and communications,” said Carlos Moreira, CEO and Founder of WISeKey. “This award is for the WISeKey staff and management in recognition of their hard work to position WISeKey at the top of the prestigious Silicon Valley ecosystem.”
WISeKey has also been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Global Growth Company.
"This year's AlwaysOn Global 250 are companies driven by the biggest mega-trends, including the accelerating growth of mobile users, cloud computing, and SaaS offerings, globalization, and the socialization of commerce, and basically everything online," says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "This year's winners clearly represent some of the highest-growth opportunities we've seen in the private company marketplace in the history of the global Silicon Valley."
The list of winners are located at:
https://www.aonetwork.com/AOStory/Announcing-2011-AlwaysOn-Global-250
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About WISeKey
WISeKey secures the digital lives of people by providing specialized and cutting-edge security and digital identification technologies for personal data protection, effective identification and authentication of people and objects over physical infrastructures, mobile networks and the Internet to ensure secure communications, interactions and transactions, without compromising trust and privacy.
“…One of the risks of 2011 is actually the Internet… An infrastructure which was not designed to carry the burden it is carrying today… Something [intended to allow] us to transmit data … efficiently and fast, but security was not at all a thought at that time.”
-Carlos Moreira at the Global Competitiveness Forum, 24 January, 2011.
Transactional capabilities will determine just how the Internet will support growth in the 21st century. Security concerns have become paramount. Processes and behavior must be adapted to create a safe, trusted digital environment in which transactions can grow together with the security of the people, products and organizations that participate. WISeKey has spent more than ten years establishing a sound platform and technical infrastructure upon which WISeKey continues to offer solutions that protect people, objects and information with secure digital identification and authentication and encrypted data transactions.