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  • Adobe Acquires Electronic Signature Startup EchoSign

    Robin Wauters

    Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com. He was a senior staff writer at TechCrunch until his departure in February 2012. Aside from his professional blogging activities, he’s an entrepreneur, event organizer, occasional board adviser and angel investor but most importantly an all-round startup champion. Wauters lives and works in... → Learn More

    Monday, July 18th, 2011
    echosign

    Adobe this morning announced that it has acquired EchoSign, a provider of electronic signature solutions and signature automation.

    Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the founders as well as all full-time employees of EchoSign, which has offices in Palo Alto, California, the UK and Germany, will join Adobe.

    EchoSign’s solution, which is said to currently support more than three million users worldwide, will be offered as part of Adobe’s online document exchange services platform and be integrated with Adobe’s SendNow for managed file transfer, FormsCentral for form creation and CreatePDF for online PDF creation.

    Company: EchoSign
    Website: echosign.com
    Launch Date: July 15, 2005
    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 2012, “Best Apps of 2011”, “Best Apps of 2010”, “Best Apps...

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    Company: Adobe Systems
    Website: adobe.com
    Launch Date: December 1982
    IPO: NASDAQ:ADBE

    Adobe Systems Incorporated is a diversified software company. The Company offers a line of business and mobile software and services used by professionals, designers, knowledge workers, high-end consumers, original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners, developers and enterprises for creating, managing, delivering and engaging with compelling content and experiences across multiple operating systems, devices and media. Adobe distributes its products through a network of distributors and dealers, value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and OEMs, direct to end...

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