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Company History

For more than 15 years, BIO-key success has been simple. It's been a combination of hard-working people and a vision of securing privacy and identity with biometric finger identification technology.

Our phenomenal story began in 1993 in Bloomington, Minnesota were the founders been experimenting fingerprint mathematical algorithms. The founders of the BIO-key developed the foundation of the biometric industry.  

1993 BBG Engineering was formed as a privately held company by Ben Wittig; the inventor of VST, Barry Wendt; an entrepreneur who believed in the idea of fingerprint biometrics and Gary Wendt, who became the Chief Executive Officer.
1995  BBG Engineering changed its name to SAC Technologies, Inc. aka Secure Access Control Technologies, Inc. another privately held Company.
1996 SAC was taken public in an IPO and became registered with the SEC and was traded on NASDAQ.  The company is now public and its shares of common stock can be traded on the open market.
1999 SAC Technologies, Inc. changed its name to BIO-Key International, Inc.
2004 In April BIO-key acquires; The public Safety Group, a privately held company
In September BIO-key acquires Aether Mobil Government from Aether Incorporated, a publicly traded company.

BIO-key International, Inc., is committed to an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action policy and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, affectional orientation, familial status, marital status, race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, disability, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations, or ordinances. Any offer of employment is conditional upon the applicant passing a pre-employment background check subject to federal, state and local laws.

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