Scytl

What Scytl does

COMITIA (formerly Scytl) develops and operates electronic voting and electoral modernization platforms for government electoral bodies, election management agencies, and adjacent public institutions. The company's modular product suite combines proprietary hardware and software: BUE (Boleta Única Electrónica) is an electronic ballot system with touchscreen input, printed paper trail, and RFID-embedded vote records; Notebox is a voting-table management platform with biometric voter identification and real-time polling-station monitoring; Turing is a results-transmission and tabulation system using AI for data interpretation and validation; Invote is an end-to-end verifiable online voting system deployed across five continents; the Sistema de Operaciones Electorales is a centralized operations management platform integrating the other modules; and SOE provides voter education, election-official training, and election-night reporting. The platform holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 27701:2019 certifications, has TÜV verification, and has been recognized by the Zero Project at the United Nations for accessible voting.

The company's customer base centers on sovereign electoral authorities, with a flagship multi-year engagement with Paraguay's Tribunal Superior de Justicia Electoral (TSJE) in its sixth consecutive year, covering 18,000+ voting machines and 4.6 million voters across 1,267 locations. Additional engagements include the provincial government of Salta (Notebox deployment, October 2025) and Argentina's Caja de Previsión Social / OSEF, for which COMITIA executed the country's first internet election from Antarctic bases in November 2025. SOE, a wholly-owned subsidiary, serves US state and county electoral agencies with voter education and election-night reporting software. Operations span 11+ countries across North America, LATAM, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

COMITIA operates as a brand of Grupo MSA, an Argentine diversified conglomerate, and generates revenue through integrated electoral contracts awarded via formal government procurement (licitaciones). Revenue streams combine hardware sales (electronic voting machines, RFID-equipped ballots, peripherals), software licensing and custom development per country's legal framework, professional services (deployment, logistics, training, audit support), and managed services spanning the full electoral cycle. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is determined per project scope. The company is privately held, with no public revenue, valuation, or recent external funding disclosed in the available data.

Name

Scytl

Legal name

Comitia

Website

https://scytl.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

COMITIA (formerly Scytl), a brand of Argentine conglomerate Grupo MSA, provides electronic voting machines, biometric voting-table management, AI-assisted results transmission, and verifiable online voting platforms for government electoral bodies across 11+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Electoral Technology Platforms

NAICS

Legislative Bodies (92112), Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined (92114), Legislative Bodies (921120)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Electoral Support & Election Observation (BPADAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Democracy, Voting Rights & Civic Participation Advocacy (BPAGAFAJ), eSignature, Forms & Digital Workflow Platforms (HDAEAHAJ)

Keywords

• Electoral technology platforms
• Electronic voting systems
• Online voting software
• Election management systems
• Vote tabulation technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Barcelona

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices12 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sales - Electronic Voting Machines: Sale of electronic voting machines and voting equipment to electoral bodies. In the Paraguay case, this included over 18,000 voting machines along with peripherals, batteries, USB drives, privacy accessories, and RFID-equipped materials.
2. Software Licensing and Development: Custom software development and licensing for electoral processes. Includes voter selection software, vote counting and tabulation software, and specialized electoral management systems. Software is adapted to each country's electoral offer and regulatory requirements.
3. Professional Services: Full-cycle electoral professional services including: election infrastructure deployment, logistics and distribution, technical support, equipment maintenance, training of electoral officials, participation in national and international audits, and electoral supplies (ballots, certificates, credentials, and training materials).
4. Integrated Electoral Contracts: Comprehensive government contracts covering the full range of electoral technology, hardware, software, consumables, logistics, training, and support services — typically through public procurement (licitations). Revenue is tied to specific election cycles.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Comitia develops and supplies end-to-end electoral technology combining proprietary electronic voting hardware (touchscreen machines with RFID-enabled paper ballots) and a modular suite of six software platforms covering ballot recording (BUE), polling table management (Notebox), real-time results transmission (Turing), online remote voting (Invote), central election operations, and voter education/training (SOE). Offerings are sold as integrated contracts to government electoral bodies through public procurement, including deployment logistics, training, technical support, and audit participation.

Product overview

COMITIA (formerly Scytl) offers a modular electoral technology platform comprising six integrated solutions: BUE (electronic ballot with RFID), Notebox (voting table management), Turing (real-time results tabulation), Invote (online voting), Sistema de Operaciones Electorales (centralized operations management), and SOE (voter education and training). The platform is designed for governments and electoral institutions requiring secure, scalable, and auditable digital voting solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• BUE: Boleta Única Electrónica - Electronic ballot system with touch screen, RFID chip, and printed vote
• Notebox
• Turing
• Invote
• SOE
• Sistema de Operaciones Electorales

Products and services

• BUE (Boleta Única Electrónica) Electronic ballot system with touchscreen interface that prints voter choices and registers information on an RFID chip embedded in the paper ballot, combining physical paper-ballot robustness with digital record-keeping for transparency and auditability. Used by electoral bodies in Argentina (including the first Antarctica internet election) and other jurisdictions.
• Notebox Comprehensive voting table management system that assists election authorities through the entire electoral process with real-time information access, biometric voter identification, and integration with other electoral systems.
• Turing Electoral results transmission and tabulation system that decentralizes data loading and ensures validated results arrive in real-time with AI-powered data interpretation and error reduction, with digitalization of data at the source.
• Invote End-to-end verifiable online voting system enabling remote participation with encryption and verification at every step, voter authentication without compromising privacy, and auditable vote by both the elector and electoral authorities. Used across five continents.
• Sistema de Operaciones Electorales Centralized electoral information management and real-time contingency tracking system for planning, managing, and monitoring all stages of electoral processes, with role-based access, complete traceability, and integration with other electoral systems.
• SOE (Soluciones de información y capacitación electoral) Electoral information and training platform providing online voter education, election night reporting, and software-based training for electoral officials, including interactive training videos, knowledge evaluation, and accessible digital result publishing.

Quantifiable outcome

• Zero material failures reported across Paraguay's six consecutive annual electoral deployments covering 4.6M+ voters
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered supporting and core.

• Amazon Web ServicessupportingTechnology or IntegrationAWS is listed among COMITIA's partnerships and certifications on the company website, indicating cloud infrastructure services are utilized to support the deployment and operation of COMITIA's electoral technology platforms.
• IntelsupportingTechnology or IntegrationIntel is listed among COMITIA's partnerships and certifications, suggesting processor or technology components from Intel are incorporated into COMITIA's electoral hardware (voting machines, servers).
• STMicroelectronicssupportingTechnology or IntegrationSTMicroelectronics (ST) is listed among COMITIA's partnerships and certifications, indicating semiconductor components from ST are used in COMITIA's electoral hardware.
• AndreanisupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerAndreani (Argentine logistics company) is listed among COMITIA's partnerships and certifications. Given Andreani's expertise in logistics and distribution, this partnership likely supports the physical distribution of electoral materials, voting machines, and supplies during election deployments.
• Grupo MSAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCOMITIA is explicitly stated to be part of Grupo MSA (scytl.com, press releases, legal notices). Grupo MSA is the parent corporate group of COMITIA, providing organizational, financial, and operational support. COMITIA operates under the MSA brand in various markets and press communications.
• TÜVsupportingTechnology or IntegrationTÜV certification is displayed on COMITIA's website as part of their certifications portfolio, indicating independent testing and quality verification of electoral systems and processes by TÜV.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Smartmatic: Global election technology vendor providing voting machines, e-voting platforms, and election management systems. Closest direct competitor to COMITIA in LATAM and Europe with overlapping customer base of electoral bodies.
• Hart InterCivic: US election technology vendor providing voting machines, ballot tabulation, and verification systems. Direct comparable on product category (electronic voting hardware + software), though concentrated in US state markets.
• Tenex Software Solutions: Election technology vendor providing voting, ballot delivery, and election management software. Directly comparable to COMITIA on software-centric election solutions for government electoral bodies.

Broad incumbents

• Election Systems & Software (ES&S): Largest US-based election technology vendor offering voting machines, tabulation, and election management. Competes with COMITIA's SOE subsidiary in US state and county markets and serves as a benchmark for enterprise-scale election tech.
• Dominion Voting Systems: Established North American election technology provider offering voting machines and tabulation software. Comparable product overlap in voting hardware and results transmission; broader geographic presence than COMITIA in US/Canada.
• IDEMIA (Civil Identity / Election division): Global identity and biometric solutions vendor with election-related identity verification offerings. Comparable to COMITIA's biometric voter identification component within Notebox, though IDEMIA spans broader identity/security verticals.

Emerging players

• EveryoneCounts: Online voting and election management platform provider. Closest direct competitor to COMITIA's Invote on end-to-end verifiable internet voting for governments, associations, and unions.
• Democracy Live: US-based provider of online ballot delivery, accessible voting, and election information platforms. Comparable to COMITIA on accessible remote voting and voter education solutions for US jurisdictions.
• Knowink: US provider of electronic pollbooks (Poll Pad) and voter check-in solutions for election administration. Comparable to COMITIA's Notebox voting table management functionality with biometric identification.

Others

• Parascript: Document and ballot verification technology provider using AI/ML for automated ballot signature verification and adjudication. Comparable to the AI-assisted data interpretation layer within COMITIA's Turing results transmission system.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/scytl-election-technolgies

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds7 records

Investors10 records

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M&A6 records

Investments1 record

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