Background

Demoxi is a story of persistence meeting inspiration. Demoxi is a name derived by combining the Greek word for people, demos, and the suffix of the Chinese word for connections, guanxi. The result is Demoxi, or “Connecting People.”

In 1996, Jim Adler founded VoteHere, a company that pioneered the development of technologies for private and secure electronic voting, both online and offline. The technology, developed over 10 years with nearly $20 million, produced not only a robust solution for online voting, but also 50 patents issued worldwide (with 40 pending) related to voting and personal identity on the Internet.

Rob Monster, a fellow resident of Seattle and a serial entrepreneur, was on the hunt for a new kind of Internet — one that was built on trusted connections and was safer to explore with confidence. Rob had a long-standing awareness of VoteHere. He and Jim met many times to discuss voting, identity, and the future of the Internet.

In mid-2007, the groundwork was laid for Demoxi’s fast start. Dategrity, VoteHere’s parent company, contributed the VoteHere intellectual property, including 50 patents, to Demoxi. Since founding the new company, Demoxi has been in active strategic discussions with alliance partners who share our vision for a better Internet that allows people from around the world to Connect with Confidence.

Demoxi is free software that enables you to control your online identity, safely connect, communicate, and engage online. Demoxi offers privacy and identity technology that combines the most advanced solutions for managing identity, web surfing, peer-to-peer communication, managing personal data, exchanging money, digital signatures and online voting – all in one application. Demoxi remembers or maps registration forms that you have not previously been to. In this way you do not have to reinsert the same data continually. Demoxi will do that for you.