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The Interview
Mike Dins chief financial officer at D
DocuSign Raises $56M To Accelerate eSignature Growth
DocuSign is the global standard for eSignature and eSignature transaction management leader. DocuSign automates manual, paper-based processes with the only open, independent, standards-based platform for managing all aspects of documented business transactions, including identity management, authentication, eSignature, forms/data collection, collaboration, workflow automation, payment and storage. DocuSign accelerates transactions to increase speed to results, reduce costs, and delight customers with the easiest, fastest, most secure global network for sending, signing, tracking, and storing documents in the cloud. DocuSign helps companies securely collect information and payment, automate data processes and sign anything, anywhere, anytime, on any device to do business faster and better.
DocuSign has 300 employees across three offices in San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington; and London, England.
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DocuSign have recently raised $56m in a funding round, with
investors including Kleiner Perkins and Accel Partners. Can you discuss the funding?
DocuSign raised a total of $56 million in the company’s Series D round of funding from premier investors, a public fund, and strategic tech partners. The funding was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, who was joined by
Accel Partners, a large, global institutional investor, Google Ventures, Comcast Ventures and SAP Ventures.
Were there any challenges that needed to be overcome?
Our most recent funding positions us to scale our business and continue our hyper growth as the global standard for eSignature. DocuSign has more than 23 million users who
have DocuSigned more than 220 million documents in 188 countries. 60,000 new unique users join the DocuSign Global Network every day.
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What is the investment focus and strategy for the fund?
DocuSign will use the funding to accelerate our growth and continue our momentum towards becoming a long-term, sustainable