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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Saflink Corp. (ESAF) Biometric Software Provider -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: srs who wrote (2437)	12/2/1997 10:25:00 PM
From: srs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4676

follow-up I could not find the article on the interactive edition of Red Herring regarding biometrics. Gives a nice plug to Veridicom and talk about them being the new kid on block. Could someone tell me what relationship does NRID have with Veridicom? thanks

To: srs who wrote (2437)	12/3/1997 1:24:00 PM
From: Dan Shubin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4676

To all: Looks like that RedHerring article is off the archives but I found this to ponder: TOP IPO CANDIDATES Private companies projected to go public within the next 24 months. Security Dynamics, Cambridge, MA CEO: Charles Stuckey Founded: 1984 Employees: N/A Phone: 617/547-7820 Market/Product: Computer access security hardware & software products to prevent unauthorized user access to information on host computers & networks. Products include a credit-card sized token which is carried by authorized users. Patented technology produces a unique, unpredictable access code that automatically changes every minute. Available for IBM, Digital, H-P, AT&T, Sun, SGI, Cray, & other UNIX platforms. Clients include over 40% of the Fortune 500 companies. No other vendor has competitive product set/technology. Indirect competition with dial-back systems, challenge-response tokens, smart card technology, & biometric devices. Finance/Strategy: CEO from Control Data. Venture backing from Apex, Alta, Burr Egan Deleage, Productivity Fund, Keystone, Corning Capital, & Sequoia Capital. Last round in '88 was $1.6M for a total of $6M. Greater than 65% compounded annual growth since it began shipping products in '87. Forecast revenues of $15M to $20M for FY'94. Strategic partnerships with Apple, AT&T, Raptor Systems, Shiva, Telebit, Xylogics, Xyplex, & others. Holds 60% of the token-based security marketplace, which is estimated to reach $100M by '95. BTW: we used these very succesfully at Synopsys. dna