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sproof and A-Trust Deepen Their Sovereign Alliance for Austria

ESAC portfolio company sproof, the Salzburg-based RegTech, has raised its collaboration with A-Trust to a new strategic level. Together, sproof and A-Trust are anchoring ID Austria even more deeply into digital signature workflows. As a result, businesses across the country gain a legally secure, fully European alternative to US providers. The move marks a clear commitment to digital sovereignty.

Digital Sovereignty Made in Austria: ESAC Portfolio Company sproof Brings the EUDI Wallet Vision to Life

The Salzburg-based company has taken a significant step toward advancing Europe’s digital sovereignty agenda by launching a publicly accessible demo environment for the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet). With its demo platform, available through , the company showcases how secure, efficient, and fully European digital identification processes can work in practice — without media disruptions, with high security standards, and with clear data sovereignty within Europe. 

Q.ANT Wins Photonics Frontiers Award 2026 for Industry-Ready Optical Computing Innovation

The future of computing is increasingly being shaped by new architectures that can overcome the physical and energy limitations of conventional processors. One of the most promising technologies leading this transformation is photonic computing — and Q.ANT is now receiving international recognition for its pioneering work in the field. At Optatec Messe 2026 in Frankfurt, Q.ANT was awarded the prestigious Photonics Frontiers Award 2026 in the category “Quantum Technologies & Optical Computing” for its industry-ready photonic co-processor.