What Neovote does

Neovote SAS is a French private company founded in 2007 that operates a sovereign electronic voting platform for organizations across four vertical modules: social relations (CSE elections, referendums, employee board representatives, FCPE supervisory councils), companies and associations (general assemblies, association boards, shareholder delegates, governance councils), public functions (ministries, higher education, hospitals, local authorities), and specific ballots (international projects, political elections, participatory democracy, co-ownership assemblies). The platform is built fully in-house — modified Debian operating system, proprietary cryptographic core, geometric ballot models with no sequential database, physically random ballot boxes without mixers, and dual ACID-compliant recording verified across three voting servers per deployment — and is operated from Paris (headquarters), Rennes (cyber excellence center and engineering), and Bordeaux (24/7 support handling ~1M calls per year).

The technology stack is anchored in regulatory credentials rather than AI: ISO-27001 certified dedicated voting servers, HSM at EAL5+, CNIL levels 2 and 3 coverage, ANSSI references, and homologation by the Conseil d'État, Senate, National Assembly, Ministry of Interior, and DGSI. Each deployment is supported by a dedicated CAPA-qualified jurist and engineering team, with 4,000 production servers enabling 10,000+ annual voting systems and sub-72-hour urgent deployments. Neovote monetizes through fixed-price (forfaitaire), subscription-based multi-year contracts sold via direct enterprise field sales to French large enterprises, government bodies, trade unions/employer organizations (CGT, MEDEF), and associations across banking, healthcare, pharma, retail, automotive, insurance, luxury, and logistics sectors. The company carries an €8M Lloyd's of London risk guarantee covering all sensitive voting activities and has recorded zero insurance claims since founding.

Name

Neovote

Legal name

Neovote SAS

Website

https://neovote.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Neovote SAS is a French electronic voting platform provider founded in 2007, serving French enterprises, government bodies, trade unions, and associations with a sovereign in-house voting technology stack for CSE elections, general assemblies, public-sector ballots, and specialized votes.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Electronic Voting Software

NAICS

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Electoral Support & Election Observation (BPADAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Democracy, Voting Rights & Civic Participation Advocacy (BPAGAFAJ), Proxy Voting & Shareholder Meeting Services (FSAFALAD)

Keywords

• Electronic voting platform
• Secure online voting
• Corporate governance voting
• Election management software
• Digital ballot systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Electronic Voting Platform Services: Neovote provides end-to-end electronic voting services for organizations across social relations (CSE elections, referendums), corporate assemblies, public sector, and specialized ballots. Services include legal support (dedicated CAPA lawyer), technical deployment, 24/7 support, and vote processing. A fixed-price (forfaitaire) model is used allowing clients to plan intervention costs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Neovote develops and operates a sovereign electronic voting platform used by organizations to run legally compliant, auditable ballots. Offerings cover CSE elections, referendums, employee-representative votes, corporate and association general assemblies, public-sector elections (ministries, universities, hospitals, local authorities), and specialized ballots (international projects, political elections, co-ownership assemblies). Each project is delivered as a fixed-price subscription service that bundles in-house cryptographic software, dedicated voting servers, a CAPA-credentialed jurist, and 24/7 support.

Product overview

Neovote is a French electronic voting platform provider offering a unified, sovereign voting solution for organizations across multiple sectors. The core product is the Neovote Electronic Voting Platform, which encompasses specialized modules for Social Relations (CSE elections, referendums), Companies and Associations (general assemblies, governance), Public Functions (ministries, hospitals, local authorities), and Specific Ballots (international projects, political elections, local democracy, co-ownership). The platform operates through a dedicated multi-server infrastructure and is distinguished by its cryptographic sovereignty, with internally-developed security components and compliance with French government standards.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Neovote Electronic Voting Platform Sovereign, in-house-developed electronic voting platform providing secure, trusted online voting for organizations across social relations, corporate governance, public sector, and specialized ballots. Each project includes a CAPA-credentialed jurist, dedicated voting servers, and 24/7 support.
• Social Relations Voting (Relations Sociales) Online voting solution for French Social and Economic Committees covering CSE elections, in-meeting CSE votes, referendums and consultations, employee representatives on boards, and FCPE supervisory-council representatives. Built for organizations that must meet French labor-law election requirements.
• Companies and Associations Voting (Sociétés et associations) Electronic voting for corporate and association governance including general assemblies, association boards, member delegates, and online governance councils. Designed for companies, mutuals, and associations running statutory or member votes.
• Public Functions Voting (Fonctions publiques) Voting solutions for the French public sector including ministries, higher-education institutions, hospitals and healthcare establishments, and local authorities. Compliant with CNIL-2/CNIL-3, ANSSI references, and government homologation requirements.
• Specific Ballots (Scrutins spécifiques) Specialized voting solutions covering international projects, political elections, local/participatory-democracy consultations, and co-ownership assemblies. Built for sensitive or non-standard ballots where sovereign infrastructure and post-factum verification are required.
• Voting Servers Infrastructure Multi-server voting infrastructure offering dedicated vote servers (vote01.neovote.com through vote999.neovote.com) for running concurrent elections, providing the 3-server expertized voting, 2 electronic safes, and verifiability program described in Neovote's deployment methodology.

Quantifiable outcome

• 10,000+ voting systems deployed annually with zero technical incidents
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers18 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• POLYS: Blockchain-based electronic voting platform originally incubated at Kaspersky Lab that targets corporate shareholders, universities, and communities with tokenized voting. Overlaps with Neovote in the broader e-voting category and uses a different architectural approach (blockchain vs. geometric ballot) — partial competitor with potential to disrupt in the corporate AG segment.

Broad incumbents

• Idemia: French-headquartered identity and security giant that offers electronic voting and election management solutions as part of a much broader portfolio (identity documents, biometrics, payments). Comparable to Neovote in serving public sector and regulated clients with sovereign-grade identity infrastructure, but operates at vastly larger scale and is not specialized in the CSE/AG voting niche.
• Election Systems & Software (ES&S): Largest US voting machine and election management software provider, serving state and county governments with voting hardware, tabulation, and election management systems. Comparable as a broad incumbent in trusted election technology, though primarily physical-voting-machine-focused rather than browser-based voting.
• Computershare: Global transfer agent and shareholder services company that runs virtual AG platforms and proxy voting for publicly listed companies and mutual funds. Comparable to Neovote for corporate general assembly voting use cases, though serves multinational issuers rather than the French mid-market and CSE segment.
• Smartmatic: Global election technology company providing voting machines, e-voting platforms, and election management software to governments in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Comparable to Neovote as a peer in secure voting technology with public sector focus, though it operates internationally and serves large-scale national elections.
• Dominion Voting Systems: US-headquartered election technology company providing voting machines, ballot tabulation, and election management systems to North American jurisdictions. Comparable to Neovote in the trusted election infrastructure category at vastly larger scale, though focused on physical voting infrastructure for government elections.
• Broadridge Financial Solutions: US-listed provider of proxy voting, shareholder meeting, and governance communication services to financial institutions and corporations globally. Comparable to Neovote's corporate AG voting business and shareholder delegate votes, but at vastly larger scale and focused on capital markets rather than labor relations or French-specific use cases.

Direct peers

• Democracy Live: US-based electronic voting platform provider for government elections, accessible remote voting, and election accessibility solutions. Comparable to Neovote in providing browser-based secure voting for public sector and institutional clients, though primarily focused on US state and federal elections.
• Scytl: Barcelona-based election technology company providing end-to-end electronic voting and election modernization platforms to governments and political parties worldwide. Direct competitor to Neovote in the secure e-voting space with overlapping cryptographic and verifiability capabilities, though it has historically focused on political/public elections rather than CSE labor relations.
• EveryoneCounts: US-based electronic voting platform provider serving unions, associations, political parties, and cooperatives with online voting and election management software. Direct peer to Neovote in the association/labor voting segment, though US-focused and without the French sovereign/regulatory positioning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Neovote_SAS

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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