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Scytl is a worldwide leader in the development of secure solutions for electoral modernization.

These solutions incorporate unique cryptographic protocols that enable to carry out all types of electoral modernization processes and elections in a completely secure and auditable manner. Scytl's advanced electoral security technology positions the company as a leader in electoral modernization industry.

Scytl was formed as a spin-off from a leading research group at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. This group, funded by the Spanish Government's Ministry of Science and Technology, has pioneered the research on e-voting security in Europe since 1994 and has produced significant scientific results, including 25 scientific papers published in international journals and the first two European Ph.D. theses on electronic voting security, by Prof. Joan Borrell and Scytl's founder Dr. Andreu Riera (in 1996 and 1999, respectively). This research group also participated in the first Internet binding election in Europe (i.e., the 1997 election to the Presidency of the IEEE IT Spanish chapter).

One of Scytl's key differentiators is its unique electoral security technology, which derives from over 14 years of pioneering R&D and is protected by a portfolio of international patents. The groundbreaking cryptographic protocols developed by Scytl provide electoral modernization with the highest levels of security, in terms of voters' privacy, ballot box integrity, and voter-verifiability.

This innovative technology has received numerous international awards, including the prestigious ICT Prize granted by the European Commission, the European Venture Contest Prize, the Best Case Label granted by the European Commission, the "leaders of the ITech Economy" award granted by the IE-Club, the RedHerring 100 granted by RedHerring magazine and the Global Innovator granted by Guidewire Group.

Scytl has customers both in the private and public sectors. Some of these customers represent leading references in the electoral modernization market (e.g., governments in Spain, the USA, France, Austria, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Philippines, Argentina, Mexico, Finland and Australia) and are pioneering new electronic voting applications. Scytl's solutions have been successfully used in multiple projects worldwide, some of which represent breakthrough projects for the electoral modernization industry.