By Lisa Fleisher
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's venture-capital fund is
betting that online voting will win over skeptics worried about
security and gradually become the norm for elections
world-wide.
Vulcan Capital's growth equity fund, based in Palo Alto, Calif.,
will invest $40 million in Scytl, a digital voting services company
based in Barcelona with customers in more than 30 countries,
including Canada, Mexico and Australia, the two companies said
Monday.
Scytl, founded in 2001, sells a range of services aimed at
modernizing elections, from training poll workers or registering
voters to actually hosting elections online and counting votes.
Scytl has already received investments from Balderton Capital,
Nauta Capital and Spinnaker SCR.
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