Our advice is grounded in what we have built ourselves.
Internet pioneer in 1995. Austria's first private fixed-line operator. Biometric hardware with worldwide patents. Encrypted communications for government agencies. Multiple spin-offs and successful exits — all from one company.
Established Austria's first private PSTN fixed-line operator (PTAG, Siemens EWSD) — including interconnection with the state-owned PTT. Further telecoms ventures followed: Best Telecom, A-Tel and Phoenix.
Founded a biometric ID company with its own hardware. Later acquired the complete identity protection technology of Switzerland's AXSionics, a spin-off of Bern University of Applied Sciences — including all patents — licensed by Bloomberg.
Launched as an ICSL project in 2007, spun off in 2008: AGSES — biometric multi-factor authentication on a dedicated card: EAL4+ chip, fingerprint reader, trusted display, optical interface, 128 independent cryptographic slots. Around 120,000 cards in use — plus approximately 500,000 manufactured under licence: the Bloomberg B-Unit.
Secure communications systems for government bodies and major customers: hardware-based encryption, integration of different cryptographic systems, EMEA responsibility for distribution, workshops and training.
Example PTAG — Pegasus Telekom: from zero to 35 employees and 1,100 business customers in three years — the only alternative telecoms operator in Austria at the time with positive EBITDA. Successfully sold in 2000. Alongside technology acquisitions, partnerships and the 2004 spin-off of the COMSEC business into today's ICSL GmbH.
Telemedicine Spin-off TeleMed / vitaphone (founded in 2004, successfully sold in 2012): a telemedicine innovation leader — its cardiac monitoring phone was even featured in ORF broadcasts. Today, a smartwatch recording an ECG is commonplace — in 2004, it was pioneering work. New to the market, sometimes too early — always ahead.
