WISeKey Named Winner of the Silicon Valley Innovation Summit Global 250 Top Private Companies Distinction

GENEVA, July 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

WISeKey is among the winners of the 2011 AlwaysOn Global 250 emerging private companies creating new business opportunities in the global technology. AlwaysOn has a proven track record of predicting companies that will represent major business investment over the next year. Companies selected for the AlwaysOn Global 250 represent the top private companies demonstrating significant market traction and pursuing game-changing technology.

WISeKey is recognized for its innovation in the Cloud and Infrastructure category. Previous winners are OpSource (Cloud and Infrastructure), GroupOn (Consumer Internet), FreeWheel (Digital Media), Bloom Energy (Greentech) and Appirio (SaaS and Enterprise). Winners were selected from among hundreds of technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders.

"… Innovation is not only alive and well in the Global Silicon Valley, it's accelerating …" says Tony Perkins, Founder of AlwaysOn. "The companies certainly represent some of the highest-growth opportunities in the private company marketplace."

"This award highlights WISeKey's contribution making 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 recognizes the WISeKey staff and management for their hard work making WISeKey part of the prestigious Silicon Valley ecosystem."

WISeKey has also been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Global Growth Company.

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WISeKey secures the digital lives of people by providing specialized 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.

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