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2022. DocuSign announces end-to-end contract lifecycle integration inside Slack



One of Slack’s main strengths has always been the ability to complete a set of tasks without having to move between multiple applications. DocuSign introduced electronic signature integration inside Slack at the height of the pandemic in 2020. Today, the company announced you can handle the entire contract lifecycle without leaving Slack. DocuSign has been looking at various ways of integrating the signing process into the SaaS tools people are using most. This builds on the company’s announcement earlier this year about document signing in Zoom, another application that exploded in popularity during the height of the pandemic lockdown.


2021. Yousign raises $36.6M to build a European alternative to DocuSign



French startup Yousign has raised a $36.6 million Series A. You may be familiar with DocuSign, Adobe Sign, SignNow, HelloSign and a bunch of other players. But none of them have been designed for the European market from the ground up. Yousign wants to become the European alternative to these American companies. More specifically, the startup thinks it can convince small and medium companies that aren’t using an e-signature solution yet. Instead of asking DocuSign customers to switch, Yousign wants to convert new customers to e-signatures. Like other e-signature services, you can create document templates, approval workflows and reminders. Yousign makes sure the right person is signing the document with strong authentication processes and all events are timestamped. It’s a SaaS product, which means you have to pay a subscription fee to access the service.

2021. Box acquires eSignature startup SignRequest for new content workflows



Box announced this morning that it has agreed to acquire e-signature startup SignRequest for $55 million. The acquisition gives the company a native signature component it has been lacking and opens up new workflows for the company. While Box has partnerships with other e-signature vendors, this gives it one to call its own, one that will be built into Box starting this summer. As we have learned during this pandemic, the more work we can do remotely, the safer it is. Even after the pandemic ends and we get back to more face-to-face interactions, being able to do things fully in the cloud and removing paper from the workflow will speed up everything.


2020. Sales document workflow startup PandaDoc gets $30M



PandaDoc, the startup that provides a fully digital sales document workflow from proposal to electronic signature to collecting payment, announced a $30 million Series B extension today. Part of the company’s growth strategy is using their eSignature tool to move people to the platform. They made that tool free in March just as the pandemic was hitting hard in the U.S., and it has proven to be a lead magnet to get more people familiar with the company. Once they do that he says, they start to look at the broader set of tools and they can become paying customers.


2020. DocuSign acquires Seal Software for $188M to enhance its AI chops



Contract management service DocuSign announced that it is acquiring Seal Software for $188 million. Seal Software was founded in 2010, and, while it may not be a mainstream brand, its customers include the likes of PayPal, Dell, Nokia and DocuSign itself. These companies use Seal for its contract management tools, but also for its analytics, discovery and data extraction services. And it’s these AI smarts the company developed over time to help businesses analyze their contracts that made DocuSign acquire the company. This can help them significantly reduce their time for legal reviews, for example.


2019. Dropbox aquired e-signature service HelloSign



Dropbox is to acquire for $230 million HelloSign, a company that provides lightweight document workflow and eSignature services. This can also been seen in the context of the Extension capability that Dropbox added last year. HelloSign was actually one of the companies involved at launch. While Clark says the company will continue to encourage companies to extend the Dropbox solution, today’s acquisition gives it a capability of its own that doesn’t require a partnership and already is connected to Dropbox via Extensions. Dropbox is going to remain HelloSign as a standalone business within the Dropbox family.


2018. DocuSign filed for IPO



DocuSign, which pioneered the e-signature, is gearing up to go public in the next six months. Utilizing a commonly used provision of the JOBS Act, DocuSign submitted its IPO filing behind closed doors and will reveal it weeks before its public debut. Like Dropbox, which is finally going public this week, San Francisco-based DocuSign has been an anticipated IPO for several years now. It’s raised over $500 million since it was founded in 2003 and has been valued at $3 billion. Kleiner Perkins, Bain Capital, Intel Capital, GV (Google Ventures) and Dell are among the many well-known names which have invested in DocuSign.


2017. Zoho launched digital signature app for business - Zoho Sign



Zoho introduced new service - Zoho Sign – a complete digital signature app for business, that enables to carry out the entire signing process from the cloud and seamlessly close deals in minutes. Zoho Sign integrates readily with other Zoho apps such as Zoho CRM and Writer and works with your daily apps, including Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and OneDrive, making it easy to sign contracts anywhere and keep your deals moving forward.  This new addition to the Zoho suite is perfect for large enterprises and SMEs and can be used across industries like finance, construction, manufacturing, real estate, and healthcare.


2016. DocuSign partners with major payment providers to offer pay at signing



Electronic signature provider DocuSign is now allowing users to add a payment to be collected digitally at signing. This is particularly important for contracts that require a down payment to continue. Prior to having this capability, the parties would have to arrange payment separately from the electronic contract signing process. For many businesses like contractors or event rentals, this meant having to make a phone call or sending an email or snail mail bill to collect payment before work could begin or the deal was official. With this new payments functionality, the parties can arrange payments up front and streamline the entire process.


2015. Sales content managment service PandaDoc gets $5M



PandaDoc, the startup that helps automate creation of quotes, proposals and contracts has announced a $5 million investment. The product is essentially a content layer that sits on top of your CRM tool. Currently it’s compatible with Salesforce.com, Zoho, Pipeliner and Base. It also works with Zendesk to enable customer service personnel to send out renewal contracts and other information. When sales personnel have to create content for their customers, they can choose from a series of pre-defined templates that have been customized for the company. One template might be standard introductory matter, another could be a pricing table with standard discounts.


2015. Electronic signature platform DocuSign raises $233M



DocuSign a company best known for its electronic signature platform, has raised a $233 million. DocuSign is one of the market leaders and global standards for electronic signature. It provides the world's largest and fastest growing electronic signature platform, empowering businesses to complete transactions online quickly and securely while improving compliance and reducing costs. DocuSign is the only cloud computing-based electronic signature platform that entirely replaces slow, expensive document management systems. According to the DocuSign CEO, the company now has three goals: Grow its revenue, ramp towards profits, and build its global identity standard. To that end, the new capital will be used at least in part to fuel international expansion.


2015. Adobe launches Document Cloud for Acrobat and EchoSign


Adobe is launching its third cloud (after Creative Cloud and Marketing Cloud) - Adobe Document Cloud. At the center of this is Acrobat DC, a new version of Acrobat for the desktop, web and mobile that will include free e-signing tools based on Adobe EchoSign and quite a bit of smart image-handling and OCR technology. The company is also launching a new mobile app called Fill and Sign as well as a new Acrobat enterprise solution with additional advanced features like fine-grained permission controls and third-party integrations. The new apps let users easily create and edit PDFs from their device. For example user can take a photo of a document with a phone and automatically turn it into a PDF. The idea here is to create a unified experiences across all platforms, with e-signing as one of the key features.


2015. DocuSign acquires digital signature provider CoSign



DocuSign is to acquire ARX. The acquisition builds on a three year business partnership between DocuSign and ARX, bringing together ARX's best-in-class CoSign digital signature technology with the world's leading Digital Transaction Management (DTM) platform, to empower customers to transact business with full trust and confidence anywhere in the world. ARX, with its CoSign line of products, offers important compliance certifications critical for customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia, including NIST's FIPS 140-2 Level 3 and Common Criteria EAL4+ certifications. CoSign is used by millions of users globally to transact business in the most highly regulated industries, including life sciences, government and public sector, financial services, healthcare and engineering. The CoSign product line includes native integrations into a wide variety of systems including Microsoft Office, Office 365, SharePoint, Nintex, K2, OpenText, Oracle, Alfresco and more.


2014. Citrix acquired digital signature service RightSignature



Citrix acquired RightSignature, the professional electronic document signing platform that marries Citrix's file storage, sync and sharing platform ShareFile. The two companies have been working together for the past year and integrated their solutions. Most users use ShareFile either with on-premises storage or to mobilize data in existing systems such as SharePoint or file shares. The integration with RightSignature helps users maintain security for confidential documents. RightSignature replicates the pen-and-paper signing experience in any web browser with an elegant, intuitive user interface. The integration is already available today as an add-on to all ShareFile accounts.


2011. Adobe tries to fix its SaaS business with EchoSign acquisition



Over the past year, FedEx earned about half a billion dollars on transfering paper documents. It proves that the electronic signature market will continue to grow rapidly. Adobe (aka the giant of the electronic documents space) also understands this. Last week Adobe acquired the most successful electronic signature service - EchoSign. Adobe intends to close its own service eSignatures (which was still in beta) and integrate EchoSign into its SaaS suite Acrobat.com. However, if you look at what Acrobat.com has recently become, this news is likely to be less of a cause for celebration than commiseration with EchoSign’s users and fans. ***


2011. Adobe acquires electronic signature company EchoSign



Adobe has acquired EchoSign, a web-based provider of electronic signatures and signature automation, for an undisclosed amount. The company plans to add EchoSign's electronic signature technology to its document exchange services platform, to reduce the time, cost, and complexity associated with having a document signed, the company said. Adobe plans to discontinue as a result of the acquisition a cloud-based electronic signature service, called eSignatures or eSign, that it released in May last year. The service is currently in beta and will be targeted for end-of-life.