Agree.com, a rising player in the digital signature space, is taking a unique route to challenge industry giants like DocuSign. Unlike traditional e-signature platforms, Agree.com’s AI-powered software integrates invoicing and payment processing directly into the signing workflow—turning signatures into instant financial transactions.
Founded in February 2024, the startup has now raised a $7.2 million seed round, bringing its total funding to over $10 million. The recent round was led by Pelion Venture Partners, with participation from Blank Ventures and notable angel investor Gokul Rajaram. All previous investors, including Better Tomorrow Ventures, 8-Bit Capital, and Hustle Fund, doubled down in this oversubscribed round.
According to CEO and co-founder Marty Ringlein, this funding round closed in just two weeks. Agree’s momentum is driven by its fast-growing user base and the startup’s fintech-first approach to document management.
E-Signatures, Payments, and Invoices in One Flow
Agree.com’s software uses AI layered on top of optical character recognition (OCR) to extract and label all relevant fields in a contract, including signature blocks and payment details. This automation enables it to generate invoices the moment a deal is signed.
“At the end of almost every signature, someone has to pay someone money,” Ringlein explained. “We bring together the entire transaction flow—signing, invoicing, and payments—into one unified experience.”
This integrated approach means Agree.com is not just an e-signature tool; it’s also a replacement for invoicing platforms like Bill.com and traditional accounts receivable software.
Ringlein emphasized that the platform reads every detail in a contract—right down to semicolons and hyphens—to understand the document’s structure. It then makes it editable and collaborative, offering commenting, redlining, and version control in real-time.
While DocuSign remains its main competitor, Agree.com’s business model is built like a fintech company, monetizing through transaction volume. That’s why e-signatures are free—a move designed to attract widespread adoption.
Strong Growth and a Vision for Global Expansion
Since launching publicly in September 2024, Agree.com has grown quickly. It gained 10,000 users in its first three months. Within seven more weeks, the number doubled to 20,000. Today, the platform has over 25,000 users, including teams from Product Hunt, Beehiiv, Rho, and TaxGPT.
The startup also offers a premium version for larger teams, priced on a per-seat basis. However, the core business continues to focus on monetizing invoicing and payment flows, allowing the platform to remain free for most users.
Agree.com currently employs just seven people, including co-founders Will Hubbard (COO) and Evan Dudla (CTO). All of them have a history of building and exiting successful startups. Ringlein, Dudla, and Chief Product Officer Mike Dick previously sold nvite to Eventbrite and Gather to Brex. Hubbard has sold multiple ventures, including air-quality startup ChemiSense and Niche, which was acquired by Opera Event in 2020.
Even before Agree.com, Ringlein and Hubbard co-founded Adventure Fund, an early-stage venture firm that has invested in fast-scaling startups like Mercury and Beehiiv.
Pelion’s Tyler Hogge, who led the seed round, believes Agree.com’s strategy is spot on. “The smartest way to drive adoption is to use e-signature as the wedge, give it away for free, and make it impossible for incumbents to respond,” he said.
Agree.com plans to take its model global by the end of 2025, with initial expansion into the UK, Canada, and Australia.
