SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- DocuSign
(NASDAQ: DOCU), the world's leading way to electronically sign and
manage contracts, today introduced DocuSign Ventures, a new
initiative dedicated to nurturing the growing ecosystem of
entrepreneurs and startups that are changing the future of how we
all will agree.
DocuSign Ventures focuses on co-investing in and partnering with
companies raising early stage funding to innovate around the
agreement process. It is also another demonstration of DocuSign's
commitment to customer success. By staying close to and working
with the startups innovating at the edge, DocuSign can help its
customers identify and integrate new solutions. This includes
technologies that facilitate pre-agreement work and negotiation, in
addition to the logistics and workflows that may result after an
agreement is signed.
DocuSign Ventures is interested in a diverse range of innovative
technologies being used to transform how agreements are created,
executed, and managed including:
- Agreement process automation and workflows
- AI and smart contract technology
- Identity verification and management
- Digital payment platforms
- Legal and compliance automation technologies
- Vertical solutions in areas such as mortgage and lending
With over a billion users globally, DocuSign brings a unique
dedicated focus and expertise in and around everything agreements.
This gives portfolio companies access to DocuSign's deep knowledge
of the space, as well as the opportunity to develop closer
partnerships with the DocuSign Agreement Cloud platform and work
with DocuSign's broader ecosystem of more than one million
customers, developers and partners.
DocuSign Ventures reinforces the company's existing strategic
investments and partnership efforts across the startup ecosystem,
which include investments in BlackBoiler, DataGrail, Pactum, and
Snapdocs, and a recent investment in The LegalTech Fund, an early
stage fund focused on backing companies that are transforming the
world of law. In addition, DocuSign Ventures made investments in
and subsequently acquired Seal Software and Clause. These
relationships have led to enhancements to the DocuSign Agreement
Cloud platform including AI-powered contract analytics and smart
agreement capabilities.
"Agreements are fundamental to everything, traversing how we
conduct business and defining the important life commitments we
make and depend upon. Despite their essential nature, the agreement
process today is still largely manual, static, and rooted in
paper," said Eric Darwin, Head of
Corporate Development at DocuSign. "More and more businesses are
recognizing the power and urgency of digitizing their agreement
processes in order to meet the new 'anywhere expectations' of their
customers, partners, and employees. DocuSign Ventures is excited to
partner with the disruptors who are propelling smarter, simpler and
frankly better ways of executing and fulfilling agreements."
Learn more about DocuSign Ventures at
https://www.docusign.com/ventures.
Media Relations
Megan
Gregorio
Corporate Communications
media@docusign.com
Investor Relations
Annie
Leschin
VP Investor Relations
investors@docusign.com
About DocuSign
DocuSign helps organizations connect
and automate how they prepare, sign, act on, and manage agreements.
As part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, DocuSign offers
eSignature, the world's #1 way to sign electronically on
practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time. Today,
over a million customers and more than a billion users in over 180
countries use the DocuSign Agreement Cloud to accelerate the
process of doing business and to simplify people's lives. For more
information, visit www.docusign.com.
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