Clear Ballot Raises $18 Million

Software startup Clear Ballot closed $18 million in financing. Six investors contributed to the round, including Bessemer Venture Partners, DN Capital, and Ventureforgood.

Clear Ballot’s goal is to be a leader in election innovation, modernizing the nation’s voting system. The company has introduced a new class of tools and a new approach to voting, enabling what the company claims is unprecedented speed, accuracy, and transparency that officials and the voting public have sought for decades. Designed for ease-of-use, Clear Ballot’s browser-based software, used with commercially available scanning hardware, plans to scale to election jurisdictions of all sizes and respond directly to the budgetary realities of counties and municipalities.

Clear Ballot election technology has been used in six states and is in process for national certification. The company served as the automated independent statewide audit for the 2016 presidential election in Maryland.