EchoSign, the web-based electronic signatures and signature automation service, is launching new functionality today that allows users to use their web identities (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google) to e-sign contracts or other documents.

EchoSign’s electronic signature service lets you append digital signatures to contracts and other business documents, store them in digital form, and manage those documents without printing them out and faxing them. Currently, EchoSign has 30,000 enterprise customers using the service, including Dell, BT, Google, Facebook, OpenTable, Groupon, Intuit, Delta, Orange, Aetna, Time Warner Cable, Qualcomm, Citrix, Symantec, and Netsuite.

The web identity feature is designed to help provide an easy way to confirm identity in a transaction and help you tie their social graph to you e-signatures. Your social graph is automatically captured by EchoSign and attached to PDF copies of every signed contract, along with your email address, IP address, signature image, and chronological transaction history. While there’s no extra cost to use EchoSign web identity, you can also disable the feature.

EchoSign, launched back in 2006, has reached 2.2 million users, up from 1.2 million users earlier this year.

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• ECHOSIGN

Company: EchoSign

Website: echosign.com

Funding: $8.5M

EchoSign is an Electronic Signature and contract management company helping you keep you get all your documents signed online. The company is a direct competitor to DocuSign which took a substantial round of financing in the summer of 2007. EchoSign fired back with a second round of $6 million and partnerships with CRM powerhouse Salesforce.com, NetSuite, SAP, WebEx and Zoho. Salesforce.com named EchoSign to the “Best Apps of 2011”, “Best Apps of 2010”, “Best Apps of 2009” and “Best...

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