A tech company affiliated with and funded by Acronym, a Democratic digital nonprofit group that has rapidly expanded in recent years, was responsible for building the Iowa caucus app that contributed to delays in reporting Monday nights results in the first vote in the partys presidential race. Multiple Democratic sources, including one of the presidential campaigns, confirmed the apps creator.

State campaign finance records indicate the Iowa Democratic Party paid Shadow, a tech company that joined with Acronym last year , more than $60,000 for website development over two installments in November and December of last year. A Democratic source with knowledge of the process said those payments were for the app that caucus site leaders were supposed to use to upload the results at their locales.