DocuSign

Enabling trusted transactions with e-signatures

ActiveVenture Capital

Updated: Dec 17, 2025 ·

About

Founder Tom Gonser set out to allow people to digitally sign anything, anywhere, anytime. DocuSign is the leading global e-signature platform, with hundreds of millions of users at hundreds of thousands of companies using DocuSign to help manage their agreement process. DocuSign’s simple interface & cloud-based technology help automate formerly paper-based & error-prone processes of negotiating and certifying agreements, allowing customers to save time and money. DocuSign went public in 2018.

Recent News & Mentions

May 1, 2015FundingDocuSign - Series F Oct 1, 2014FundingDocuSign - Series E Feb 1, 2014FundingDocuSign - Series E Aug 1, 2012FundingDocuSign - Series D Dec 1, 2010FundingDocuSign - Series C Nov 1, 2009FundingDocuSign - Series B May 1, 2009FundingDocuSign - Series B Aug 1, 2007FundingDocuSign - Series B Mar 1, 2006FundingDocuSign - Series B

Financial History

DocuSign has raised $512.0M across 9 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $300.0M Series F in May 2015.

Total Raised

$512.0M

Valuation

N/A

Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Feb 1, 2025	Self Inspection	$3.0M Seed	—	Adams Street Partners, Costanoa Ventures, DVx Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Vayner RSE, Alexander Weiss, Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Renaud Laplanche
Jan 1, 2025	Highnote	$90.0M Series B	—	Adams Street Partners, Afore Capital, Alex, Costanoa Ventures, Countdown Capital, JetBlue Technology Ventures, Mischief Venture Capital, Oak HC/FT, Offline Ventures, Scout Ventures, Renaud Laplanche, Sahin Boydas, Sam Altman
Nov 1, 2024	Wordware	$30.0M Seed	—	10100, 6th Man Ventures, Acton Capital Partners, Adjacent, Albion VC, Alumni Ventures, Amplify Partners, Angel investor, Atomico, Audrey Capital, Blossom Capital, BlueRun Ventures, Broadway Angels, Chalfen Ventures, Climate Capital, Color Capital, Cool Climate Collective, Craft Ventures, Day One Ventures, Decibel Partners, Divergent Capital, Double Down, DST Global, Embedded Ventures, Emergence Capital, Essence VC, Aniq Kassam, Felicis Ventures, Felix Capital, FirstMark Capital, Flexcap, Flex Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, Friends & Family Capital, Frontline Ventures, Fusion Fund, Ganas Ventures, General Catalyst, Global Founders Capital, Gradient Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Greenoaks Capital, Hummingbird Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, Indicator Ventures, Insight Partners, IVP, Kohala Ventures, La Famiglia, Lakestar, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Listen, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Matrix, Menlo Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Moxxie Ventures, Jonathan Golden, OpenCapital.vc, Openspace Ventures, Otherwise Fund, Paradigm, Paradox Capital, Partners Resolute, Pioneer Fund, Polymath Capital Partners, Prototype Capital, Radical Ventures, Red Beard Ventures, Runa Capital, Scribble Ventures, Seed Club Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Sherpalo Ventures, Shrug Capital, Spark Capital, Summit Partners, SV Angel, Web Smith, Techstars, The Hit Forge, Theory Forge Ventures, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Trammell Venture Partners, Treble Capital, Tribe Capital, Unlock Venture Partners, Untapped Capital, Valhalla Ventures, Vibe Capital, Y Combinator, Adam D'Angelo, Alex Pattis, Amjad Masad, Andrew Gazdecki, Andrew Gluck, Andrew Steinwold, Azeem Azhar, Balaji Srinivasan, Ben Lang, Ben Tossell, Bob Young, Casey Neistat, David Peterson, Dharmesh Shah, Doug Monro, Elad Gil, Eric Ries, Gina Bianchini, Girish Mathrubootham, Gokul Rajaram, Jaime Schmidt, James Isilay, James Meekings, Jean Charles Samuelian, Jeff Hammerbacher, Jen Rubio Butterfield, Julia DeWahl, Kevin Stumpf, Kevin Weil, Kulveer Taggar, Kyle Vogt, Ligaya Tichy, Mark Chou, Mark Pincus, Mathilde Collin, Matt Mickiewicz, Moshe Lifschitz, Nkechi Iregbulem, Noah Sidman-Gale, Paul Graham, Paul Stahura, Peter Hunn, Peter Kazanjy, Ran Makavy, Sahin Boydas, Sam Corcos, Scott Belsky, Sergei Anikin, Sherry Coutu, Siqi Chen, Spencer Kimball, Stephen Cole, Thijn Lamers, Tim Ferriss, Tony Jamous, Vishal Rao, Will Brooks, Will Martin, Yann LeCun, Zachary Sims, Zach Segal
Oct 1, 2024	Highnote	$3.0M Venture Round	—	Adams Street Partners, Costanoa Ventures, Oak HC/FT, Renaud Laplanche
Oct 1, 2024	SPRX Technologies	$12.0M Series A	—	8VC, Monta Vista Capital, Vertex Ventures, Village Global
Aug 1, 2024	FutureAI	$6.0M Seed	—	8VC, Monta Vista Capital, Vertex Ventures, Village Global, PivotNorth Capital
Jul 1, 2024	Lakera	$20.0M Series A	—	8VC, Amino Capital, Authentic Ventures, Balderton Capital, Cherry Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Monta Vista Capital, Glenn Solomon, Redalpine Venture Partners, Stellar Capital, Vertex Ventures, Village Global, Wilbe Capital, Wildcard Ventures, Ian Hogarth, Mike Lee, Sriram Ramachandran
Jun 1, 2024	Rocketlane	$24.0M Series B	—	8VC, Monta Vista Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Vertex Ventures, Village Global, Abhinav Asthana
Mar 1, 2024	Tessl	$25.0M Seed	—	Redalpine Venture Partners, Youcef Es-skouri
Mar 1, 2024	Enzzo	$3.0M Seed	—	Mana Ventures, Maven Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Pioneer Square Labs, SilverCircle, Theory Forge Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, Unlock Venture Partners, Untapped Capital, Eric Ries, Noah Sidman-Gale
Jan 1, 2024	LightBeam.ai	$18.0M Series A	—	8VC, Asymmetric Capital Partners, Beat Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Theory Forge Ventures, Unlock Venture Partners, Untapped Capital, Vertex Ventures, Village Global, Y Combinator, Clark Landry, Eric Ries, Gabriel Jarrosson, Gokul Rajaram, Noah Sidman-Gale
Sep 1, 2023	Augie Studio	$3.0M Seed	—	Aristos Ventures, Jon Stein, Bling Capital, Greylock, Matrix, Seedcamp, Unlock Venture Partners, Mandeep Singh, Omid Ashtari, Paul Graham
Nov 1, 2022	Pulzaid	$370K Seed	—	Drive Capital, Matchstick Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Greg Bettinelli, Techstars, Theory Forge Ventures, Unlock Venture Partners, Untapped Capital, Eric Ries, Noah Sidman-Gale
Oct 1, 2022	Augie Studio	$1.0M Seed	—	B Capital Group, DST Global, Floodgate, Founders Fund, GSV Acceleration, Kapor Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, NextView Ventures, Pachamama Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Prithvi Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Seven Seven Six, Sound Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, Theory Forge Ventures, True Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Uncork Capital, Unlock Venture Partners, Untapped Capital, Y Combinator, David Chen, Eric Ries, Noah Sidman-Gale, Sam Altman, Tim Seears
May 1, 2022	Eridan	$46.0M Series B	—	8VC, Clearvision Ventures, Lam Research Capital, Microsoft, Monta Vista Capital, Plum Alley Investments, Rethink Impact, Social Capital, Vertex Ventures, Village Global
Jan 1, 2022	Rocketlane	$18.0M Series A	—	8VC, Monta Vista Capital, Vertex Ventures, Village Global
Aug 1, 2021	Hive	$10.0M Series B	—	Adams Street Partners, Pelion Venture Partners, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, Venrock, Eric Ver Ploeg, Russell Fradin, Russ Fradin
Nov 1, 2019	Punchh	$40.0M Series C	—	Adams Street Partners, Mayfield, Pelion Venture Partners, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Trinity Ventures, Venrock, Eric Ver Ploeg, Michael Dell, Russell Fradin, Russ Fradin
Sep 1, 2018	CloudCherry	$9.0M Series A	—	—
Sep 1, 2018	Grin Scooters	$20.0M Seed	—	Adams Street Partners, DCM, Pelion Venture Partners, Practical Venture Capital, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, Venrock, Eric Ver Ploeg, Kevin Lin, Russell Fradin, Russ Fradin
Feb 1, 2018	Dynamic Signal	$37.0M Series E	—	10100, ACME Capital, Adams Street Partners, AllegisCyber Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Binary Capital, BoxGroup, Canvas Ventures, Catapult Capital, Chemistry VC, Cherubic Ventures, Crosslink Capital, ENIAC Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Flex Capital, Freestyle Capital, Gaingels, General Catalyst, Industry Ventures, K9 Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Offline Ventures, Presence Capital, Quest Venture Partners, Quiet Capital, Radical Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Slow Ventures, TCV, Tribe Capital, Trinity Ventures, Venrock, Winklevoss Capital, Alison Pincus, Gary Kremen, Joe Greenstein, Mark Pincus, Ryan Sarver, Shervin Pishevar
Oct 1, 2014	Quantopian	$15.0M Series B	—	3TS Capital Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Aristos Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bling Capital, Gideon Yu, Hashed, Spero Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Ryan Zurrer, Alexis Berthoud, George Burke, Nick Sinai, Paul Holland
Oct 1, 2013	Quantopian	$7.0M Series A	—	Aristos Ventures, Bling Capital, Spero Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Ryan Zurrer, Alexis Berthoud, George Burke, Paul Holland
Apr 1, 2011	DoubleDutch	$1.0M Seed	—	Adams Street Partners, Amplify.LA, Betaworks Ventures, Bling Capital, Blockchain Coinvestors AngelList Syndicate, Brand Foundry Ventures, First Round Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners, Khosla Ventures, Lightbank, Maveron, Mercury Fund, Morado Venture Partners, Jonathan Golden, Offline Ventures, Outlander Labs, Pelion Venture Partners, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Venrock, Y Combinator, Brian Sugar, Eghosa Omoigui, Eric Ver Ploeg, Josh Resnick, Russell Fradin, Russ Fradin
Nov 1, 2010	Domo	$650K Seed	—	Adams Street Partners, Pelion Venture Partners, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, Venrock, Eric Ver Ploeg, Russell Fradin, Russ Fradin

Funding Rounds Raised

Date	Round	Other Investors
May 1, 2015	$300.0M Series F	Accelerated Digital Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Bam Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Craft Ventures, DCM, Dell Technologies Capital, Fifth Wall, General Atlantic, Intel Capital, Moderne Ventures, Shield Capital, Venture Guides, Michael Fey, Peter Barris, Peter Bell
Oct 1, 2014	$30.0M Series E	Moderne Ventures
Feb 1, 2014	$85.0M Series E	Madrona Ventures, Propel Venture Partners, Solasta Ventures, Accel, Benchmark, Bond, Bowery Capital, Bullpen Capital, Cameron Lester, Canvas Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Daniel Rosensweig, Dell Technologies Capital, GFT Ventures, Greylock, IVP, Jackson Square Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Lerer Hippeau, Marissa Mayer, Mousse Partners, National Grid Partners, Next Play Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Patrick Kerins, Revolution, RRE Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Viola Ventures, Zachary Kaplan
Aug 1, 2012	$56.0M Series D	Accel, Bond, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Mousse Partners, National Grid Partners, Patrick Kerins, Next Play Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Revolution, Sapphire Ventures, Viola Ventures, Cameron Lester, Daniel Rosensweig, Marissa Mayer, Zachary Kaplan
Dec 1, 2010	$11.0M Series C	August Capital, Benchmark, Bowery Capital, Bullpen Capital, Canvas Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, GFT Ventures, Jackson Square Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Mayfield, Norwest Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, Scale Venture Partners
Nov 1, 2009	$3.0M Series B	Moderne Ventures
May 1, 2009	$5.0M Series B	Dell Technologies Capital, Jackson Square Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners
Aug 1, 2007	$12.0M Series B	Dell Technologies Capital, Jackson Square Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners
Mar 1, 2006	$10.0M Series B	Jackson Square Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners

Financial History

DocuSign has raised $512.0M across 9 funding rounds.

Total Raised

$512.0M

Valuation

N/A

Leadership Team

Key people at DocuSign.

Donald Tucker

Investor

Ron Hirson

Chief Product Officer

Senior Director of Product Management / Head of Growth

Jason Goldman

Advisory Board Member

Leadership Team

Key people at DocuSign.

Donald Tucker

Investor

Ron Hirson

Chief Product Officer

Senior Director of Product Management / Head of Growth

Jason Goldman

Advisory Board Member

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

DocuSign is a leading software company that enables trusted digital transactions through its e-signature and agreement management platform. Its mission is to accelerate business and simplify life by transforming how agreements are prepared, signed, and managed digitally, reducing reliance on paper and manual processes[1][3][5]. For an investment firm, DocuSign represents a prime example of innovation in digital transformation, focusing on sectors like enterprise software, SaaS, and cloud-based workflow automation, with significant impact on the startup ecosystem by setting standards for secure, scalable digital agreements[4]. As a portfolio company, DocuSign builds a cloud-based e-signature product serving over 1.7 million customers worldwide, including enterprises and small businesses, solving the problem of slow, paper-based contract workflows and enabling faster, more secure transactions with strong growth momentum driven by API integrations and global adoption[2][4][5].

Origin Story

Founded in 2003 in Seattle by Tom Gonser, Eric Richard, and Court Lorenzini, DocuSign emerged from Gonser’s experience with digital document management at his prior company, NetUpdate[1][2]. The idea was to replace cumbersome paper-based signatures with a secure, legally compliant electronic alternative. Early traction came from focusing on real estate transactions and expanding into SaaS-based electronic signatures, capturing 73% of that market by 2010 and processing 80 million signatures[2][4]. The company later moved its headquarters to San Francisco and broadened its focus to enterprise clients, opening APIs to developers in 2014, which significantly accelerated growth and integration into diverse business workflows[2][4].

Core Differentiators

Product Differentiators: Industry-leading e-signature technology compliant with US ESIGN Act and EU eIDAS regulations; part of the broader DocuSign Agreement Cloud offering intelligent agreement management[1][2][5].
Developer Experience: Open APIs powering 58% of transactions, enabling seamless integration into customer applications and workflows[4].
Speed, Pricing, Ease of Use: Cloud-based platform accessible on any device with mobile apps since 2011, simplifying signing processes and reducing transaction times[1][2].
Community Ecosystem: Over 1.7 million customers in 180+ countries, with 400+ pre-built integrations and a strong focus on trust, security, and compliance[2][5].
Trust and Security: Ranked #1 Most Trustworthy Software Company by Newsweek in 2023, emphasizing data security and customer confidence as core to its business model[4].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

DocuSign rides the global digital transformation trend, particularly the shift from paper to digital workflows accelerated by remote work and regulatory acceptance of electronic signatures. The timing is critical as businesses seek faster, more secure, and environmentally friendly ways to manage agreements. Market forces such as cloud adoption, API-driven automation, and regulatory frameworks favor DocuSign’s growth. Its influence extends beyond e-signatures to intelligent agreement management, shaping how enterprises automate contract lifecycles and extract business insights from agreements[1][4][5]. DocuSign also contributes to sustainability by significantly reducing paper usage globally[6].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, DocuSign is poised to deepen its leadership by expanding its Intelligent Agreement Management platform, leveraging AI and analytics to provide more actionable insights from agreements. Trends like increased digital adoption, regulatory evolution, and demand for integrated workflow automation will shape its journey. Its influence is likely to grow as it becomes a foundational infrastructure for digital transactions across industries worldwide, continuing to simplify and secure business processes while driving sustainability[5][6]. This evolution ties back to its founding mission to accelerate agreements and redefine how the world comes together digitally.

Sources

Frequently Asked Questions

Who founded DocuSign?

DocuSign was founded in 2003 by Thomas Gonser (Founder).

How much funding has DocuSign raised?

DocuSign has raised $512.0M in total across 9 funding rounds.

Who are DocuSign's investors?

DocuSign's investors include Accelerated Digital Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Bam Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Craft Ventures, DCM, Dell Technologies Capital, Fifth Wall, General Atlantic, Intel Capital, Moderne Ventures, Shield Capital.