Where We’ve Come From and Where We Are Going
NAGRAVISION is part of the Kudelski Group, a business that spans the globe, generates billions of dollars’ worth of value, and keeps a strong family culture at its heart.
2022
With exploding use cases for blockchain and Web3, NAGRAVISION teams up with companies and projects in this space to conceptualize new business models that improve consumer engagement and retention.
2018
The Group’s collective expertise in hardware and software encryption finds new uses as blockchain and cryptocurrency start to find early adopter use cases. A dedicated team is formed to focus on blockchain security, performing audits and assessments on most of the major currencies, exchanges, and business applications.
2017
As threats start to focus on the Internet of Things (IoT), a dedicated business unit, Kudelski IoT, is established to help this new, enabling technology achieve security by design.
2016
NAGRAVISION extends its portfolio to business performance with NAGRA Insight, an artificial intelligence and big data business performance platform that helps clients to improve business performance and accelerate transformation.
NAGRAVISION expands its security portfolio with the acquisition of digital watermarking business, NexGuard.
2012
With the arrival of a more interconnected world come new threats in cyberspace. In 2012, the Group leverages its digital encryption roots to launch Kudelski Security and to help organizations build strategies to secure their systems, data, and reputations from cyber threats.
2010
In the early 2010s, new R&D centers are opened outside Switzerland – in Bangalore, San Francisco and the U.K. This allows local market trends to be captured and broadens the appeal of NAGRAVISION solutions globally.
1995
The first contract for a NAGRA digital system marks the entry into digital TV, which will drive the future of Kudelski Group’s business activities. With the acquisition of 100% of OpenTV in 2009, the Kudelski Group’s solutions manage the entire pay-TV ecosystem.
1989
This year sees the company’s primary business pivot to television, with the introduction of the first encryption systems for analog and its entry into the pay-TV sector.
1951
Stefan Kudelski is studying at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), when he invents the first-ever portable analog audio recorder. Shortly after, he founds his own company to commercialize this revolutionary product under the name NAGRA, which means “it will record” in his native Polish.
Symbolizing the highest quality, NAGRA recorders become widely used by the media, music, and film industries as well as intelligence services.
Where We’re Heading
While the media and entertainment industry landscape is a world apart from its early and formative years, NAGRAVISION’s mission is still focused on securing a thriving media and entertainment industry. With proven products, services, and technology that span everything from content creation to consumer behaviors, NAGRAVISION is recognized as a world leader in solutions for a dynamic and changing industry.
Our next chapter will continue to leverage the innovative spirit that founded the company – addressing changing dynamics in technology, market conditions, and consumer trends to ensure premium content experiences are always available – whenever and wherever they are needed.
That’s our vision and where our investment is focused.
Creators
Creators will have secure environments to develop their ideas, and safely invest in new content that will thrill consumers, regardless of where and how this content is consumed.
Operators
Operators will have flexible, open systems that allow them to optimize their ecosystems to profitably engage consumers. They will benefit from smart, AI-based business tools that monitor consumer relationships and enable them to manage these relationships to deliver maximum satisfaction and minimal churn.
New Entrants and Niche Creator Communities
New entrants and niche creator communities will have tools and ready-to-use resources to take their products direct to consumers – satisfying an interest for live action sports or interesting information that isn’t included in traditional content delivery models.
Consumers
Consumers become the real winners in our future. We are enabling an ecosystem where they can easily engage, interact, and transact with the new age of media and entertainment industry offerings.