Scytl is a software company specializing in the development of secure electronic voting solutions. These solutions incorporate unique cryptographic protocols that enable to carry out all types of electronic voting processes and elections in a completely secure and auditable manner. Scytl’s advanced e-voting security technology positions the company as a leader in the e-voting 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 e-voting security technology, which derives from over 12 years of pioneering R&D and is protected by a portfolio of international patents. The groundbreaking e-voting cryptographic protocols developed by Scytl provide e-voting with the highest levels of security, in terms of voters’ privacy, ballot box integrity, and voter-verifiability. Around this core security technology, Scytl has developed Pnyx, a family of e-voting solutions that address all the segments within the e-voting market. This innovative technology has received numerous international awards, including the prestigious ICT Prize granted by the European Commission, 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. The former are local, state (regional), and federal governments which license Scytl’s e-voting products to carry out their elections, referenda, or citizen consultations by electronic means. The latter are large corporations and organizations that choose Scytl’s technology to carry out by electronic means electoral/consultation processes such as labor union elections or shareholders’ meetings. Some of these customers represent leading references in the electronic voting industry (e.g., governments in Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Philippines, Argentina, Mexico, Finland and Australia that are pioneering new electronic voting applications). Scytl’s products have been successfully used in multiple projects worldwide, some of which represent breakthrough projects for the electronic voting industry.