The founders started Voatz in 2015 almost by accident. They won the ‘Hack to the Future’ hackathon at SXSW in 2014 with an idea for mobile voting and preventing voter coercion, which later became the early seedlings of the Voatz platform. Drawing from their careers in technology, mobile security, backend infrastructure, and digital payments, they began exploring an alternative method of voting that would make the process more trusted and convenient. Voatz has since grown into a passionate group of people who are determined to make voting safe, accessible, and secure.