Sequent Tech: Israeli Online Voting Startup Profile

Sequent Tech is an Israeli-founded online voting company that runs end-to-end verifiable elections. Shai Bargil, Eduardo Robles and David Ruescas founded it in 2021. Sequent supplied the technology for the Philippines' first national online vote for overseas citizens in 2025. Fifteen Ontario municipalities selected it for the October 26, 2026 elections, according to a May 12, 2026 company press release.

What are the key facts about Sequent Tech?

Sequent Tech was founded in June 2021 and reported a team of 15 employees in June 2025, according to its Calcalist CTech profile. The table below lists the verified basics and names the source for each.

Sequent supplies the figures in the last row, and no outside body has audited them. Olam labels them as company figures wherever they appear. The Everything-PR profile of Sequent Tech covers the company's open-source lineage in more detail.

Why does Sequent's Israeli team matter?

Sequent Tech operates from Israel, according to N12's mako, and Calcalist, Bizportal and The Jerusalem Post all describe it as an Israeli startup. The Jerusalem Post calls it Tel Aviv-based. The company also keeps offices in Spain and North America.

Shai Bargil, the chief executive, is described by Calcalist's CTech profile as an Israeli tech entrepreneur with an engineering background from the IDF. The profile lists a B.Sc. in information technology and a master's degree in political science, both from Tel Aviv University. It says Bargil built cybersecurity products for banks, enterprises, government agencies and military units before founding Sequent.

That mix of security engineering and political science shapes how Bargil describes the problem. He told N12's mako in June 2025 that public trust in election systems keeps falling, in his words "a consistent decline," especially in local and professional votes. Many people skip those votes, he said, because traditional methods are complicated. The quote is Olam's translation from Hebrew.

Robles, the chief technology officer, and Ruescas, the head of research, bring the cryptography and open-source side. Calcalist's profile lists Ruescas's physics degree from Imperial College London. Olam covers the wider pattern of military-trained founders in its report on IDF veterans as unicorn founders.

The Israeli start-up community has also singled out the company. In May 2026, Calcalist and Bank Leumi's Mind the Tech conference in New York picked Sequent Tech as one of 12 Israeli startups for its Dream Team pitch event. CTech reported that more than 150 startups applied and that Bargil presented for Sequent, as the Dream Team report shows.

Which investors have backed Sequent Tech?

Sequent Tech has raised $1.35 million in total, all in one pre-seed round, according to Calcalist's June 2025 profile. The profile names Runi Ventures, Fusion, GoAhead Ventures, KLI Capital and the individual investor Tom Livne. It dates the last investment to December 2024.

N12's mako adds that Sequent took part in the accelerator program of the Israeli fund Fusion VC. The same profile said the company planned a new funding round to expand its platform and its commercial operations in North America and Europe. Olam follows rounds like this one on its Israeli venture capital and exits page.

In June 2025 the company also listed open roles in software engineering, DevOps and business development. Calcalist's profile points candidates to the careers page on the company's site.

What did Sequent deliver in the Philippines in 2025?

Sequent supplied the technology for the first internet voting by overseas Filipinos in the May 2025 national elections. Rappler reported that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) signed the contract on June 25, 2024 with a joint venture led by SMS Global Technologies, in partnership with Sequent. The Philippine News Agency reported that the joint venture's bid of 112 million pesos came in under the project budget of 465.8 million pesos.

Overseas voting ran from April 13 to May 12, 2025. GMA News reported that 77 of 90 Philippine diplomatic posts took part in the online system and that Comelec counted 1.231 million Filipino voters abroad. Philippine outlets describe the 77 as diplomatic posts, while Hebrew coverage and company materials describe them as 77 countries.

Sequent says more than 1.2 million overseas Filipinos could vote online, a company figure repeated in its CTech profile. Comelec said it blocked about 75,000 attempted attacks on the system, SunStar reported. Sequent also told N12's mako that a public audit of the count took under five minutes, and that its system cuts the cost per voter from about $10 to under $2 on average. Both are company claims.

International IDEA published a review of the deployment on December 3, 2025. The report calls it the first nationwide deployment of an online voting and counting system for overseas voters, implemented across 77 jurisdictions.

Why did 15 Ontario municipalities select Sequent?

Fifteen Ontario municipalities selected Sequent to deliver online voting for more than 208,000 registered voters on October 26, 2026. The May 12, 2026 press release says the platform won on its cryptographic architecture, its compliance with Canadian and international voting standards, and its link to Ontario's municipal election infrastructure. Residents can vote online or at designated in-person locations.

The infrastructure link is a real-time data partnership with DataFix Municipal VoterView, the voter list system used by hundreds of Ontario municipalities, according to the same release. Bizportal reported in Hebrew on May 13, 2026 that the municipalities chose Sequent after reviews and tenders that focused on security, reliability and regulatory fit. Bizportal's headline puts the number at 200,000 Canadians using the system of an Israeli startup.

Ontario is an established market for online municipal voting. A September 2025 clerk's report from the Township of Springwater says 217 of 444 Ontario municipalities used internet voting in the previous municipal election. Online voting has been used in the province since 2003, the same report says.

How does verifiable online voting work in plain English?

Verifiable online voting lets voters and outside auditors check an election with mathematical evidence instead of trusting the vendor. Bizportal's description of Sequent's system names three parts. Each voter receives a digital confirmation that lets them check later that the vote was counted. A separate cryptographic layer lets observers and security researchers confirm the result within minutes. The software is open source, so governments and independent researchers can inspect the code.

Calcalist's profile says the platform keeps ballots secret while producing proofs that the count is correct. The Jerusalem Post reports that the system uses biometric authentication, encryption and zero-knowledge proofs. A zero-knowledge proof is a way to show that a statement is true, such as "the tally adds up," without revealing the secret inputs, such as how each person voted.

Calcalist's profile also says Sequent designed the platform to meet the Council of Europe's recommendation on e-voting (CM/Rec(2017)5), U.S. Department of Labor guidelines and Canada's CAN/DGSI 111-1:2024 standard. That is a company statement about design goals. Olam has not seen an independent certification, and this profile makes no claim beyond what the sources say.

What comes next for Sequent Tech?

Sequent's next test is the October 26, 2026 Ontario vote, which is its largest announced North American deployment. In June 2026 the company said it had implemented the open-source VoteSecure protocol, which IT Brief UK reported as a first among publicly declared election technology providers. VoteSecure was developed by the research firm Free & Fair, according to the same report.

Bargil told N12's mako in June 2025 that Sequent was in contact with Canada, Australia, Mexico and several U.S. states. He said most countries would add online voting to physical voting instead of replacing it. He also said the company aims for full national elections within two to three years, an aim stated in that interview and not a confirmed contract.

The Takeaway

Sequent Tech turned a 2021 Israeli startup into a vendor with a national-scale reference in the Philippines and a 15-municipality contract in Ontario. Verify its headline totals with the company before citing them, because they remain company figures. Watch the October 26, 2026 results and any independent review that follows, since those documents will show how the platform performs outside a press release.

Frequently asked questions

What is Sequent Tech?

Sequent Tech is an online voting company founded in June 2021 by Shai Bargil, Eduardo Robles and David Ruescas. It builds end-to-end verifiable voting for governments, municipalities, unions and universities, according to Calcalist's CTech profile.

Is Sequent Tech an Israeli company?

Calcalist, Bizportal, The Jerusalem Post and N12's mako describe Sequent Tech as an Israeli startup. It keeps offices in Israel, Spain and North America, according to Bizportal.

Who invested in Sequent Tech?

Calcalist's CTech profile lists Runi Ventures, Fusion, GoAhead Ventures, KLI Capital and Tom Livne as investors in the $1.35 million pre-seed funding, with the last investment in December 2024.

What did Sequent do in the Philippines?

Sequent supplied online voting technology for overseas Filipinos in the May 2025 elections through a joint venture led by SMS Global Technologies. Overseas voting ran from April 13 to May 12, 2025 across 77 diplomatic posts, according to GMA News.

Which Ontario elections will use Sequent?

Fifteen Ontario municipalities selected Sequent for the October 26, 2026 municipal elections, covering more than 208,000 registered voters, according to the company's May 12, 2026 press release.