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 UPEK, Inc. Selected by AlwaysOn as AO100 Private Company Award Winner Recognized for leadership in emerging technology for second year
UPEK and the AO100 will be honored as part of the AO2006: Stanford Summit, July 25-27, at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California. The summit will bring together successful entrepreneurs, business and political thought leaders, and top venture capitalists to spot trends and spark new ideas and initiatives. The AO100 was selected from over 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts. The AO100 consists of private companies at all stages of development, from early to late stage. UPEK, which enables easy-to-use security with user authentication at the touch of a finger, has been recognized for numerous market innovations including: the highest performance fingerprint authentication solution resulting in optimal user experience; the only end-to-end solution providing low integration costs and fast time-to-market for OEMs; and the most secure authentication enabled by a hardware-based security architecture. UPEK solutions have been adopted by four out of the top five leading brands of notebook PCs, as well as a wide variety of market leaders in the portable storage, mobile phone, government ID, access control, financial services, and healthcare industries. “The AO100 companies are driving the next wave of innovative technologies that are disrupting the old guard and shaping the new media landscape,” said Tony Perkins, founder of AlwaysOn. “As ever, we were inundated with nominations from leading companies, and it’s heartening to know that tomorrow’s thought leaders and technology visionaries are already out there. My congratulations to each AO100 winner - these are the companies which we predict will have the greatest market traction, strongest innovation and most game-changing approaches this year.” “UPEK is proud to be recognized by Always On for the second year in row,” said Alan Kramer, CEO of UPEK. “In a world becoming more and more digital, mobile, and virtual, we are striving to enable trust in an untrusted world, whether it be by resolving digital plagues such as identity theft and phishing, or by simplifying everyday transactions such as mobile banking and online shopping.” A full list of all the AO100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn website at: http://stanfordsummit.goingon.com/permalink/post/866 About UPEK, Inc. UPEK, Inc., a global leader in biometric fingerprint security solutions, offers integrated end-to-end solutions including comprehensive design & integration services to the world’s leading consumer and industrial products companies. UPEK solutions enable the strongest fingerprint authentication security available, packaged for high user convenience and rapid integration into existing products and network architectures. The company has been pioneering biometric fingerprint technology since 1996 and shipping product in volume since 1999. UPEK is headquartered near Berkeley, California, with offices in Prague, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo. For more information, please visit www.upek.com. About AlwaysOn AlwaysOn is transforming the communication business with its online blogging network; establishing it as a leader in the open media revolution. Borrowing on the underground blogging and social networking traditions, AlwaysOn (www.alwayson-network.com) was launched in 2003. Today, AlwaysOn’s annual Summit @ Stanford and OnHollywood events, print “blogozine” and online services encourage direct collaboration between the global thought leaders and technology insiders whose ideas and innovations are shaping the always-on world.AlwaysOn, LLC, is a privately held and virtually headquartered company born out of the heart of Silicon Valley. For UPEK, Inc. For AlwaysOn |
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BERKELEY, CA - July 12, 2006 – UPEK®, Inc, the world’s leading brand of fingerprint authentication security solutions, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Top 100 Private Company award winners. The award marks the second time in as many years that the company has been recognized with this award, and UPEK was once again handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial panel based on a set of five criteria - technology innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.