Lead411 Launches “Hottest Seattle Companies” Awards: DocuSign Named as One of the Fastest Growing Technology Companies

To recognize the fastest growing technology companies in Seattle, Lead411 is proud to announce the release of its "Hottest Seattle Companies" awards. DocuSign is honored to be included in Lead411's “Hottest Seattle Companies” for our award-winning electronic signature services.

The Lead411 research team scours through 600+ press releases and business articles daily, including venture capital fundings, company launches, new office openings, customer press releases, and more. This information has given insight to which are the fastest growing companies in the U.S.

Lead411 created their "Hottest Companies" awards to recognize these fast growing companies in different geographic regions. This particular list originally started with over 700 companies and has been narrowed down to the top 55. Tom Blue, CEO of Lead411, shares his thoughts on the “Hottest Companies” awards:

We have been tracking fast companies for our customers for the past 10 years and we felt it was important to recognize these growing brands publicly.

How the Winners were Chosen
First, all companies must by in either the Software, Wireless, Internet, or Media industry, be a privately held organization, and be within the Seattle area. From there, each company must meet one or more of the following requirements:

• 100% increase in revenues over the past 3 years; OR
• Over $4M in funding in the past 2 years; OR
• 2X traffic gains to their website in the past 12 months AND over 1M unique visitors a month.

It's an honor to be selected as one of the “Hottest Seattle Companies” - thank you to our customers, for using our service, sharing electronic signature with their colleagues, and providing us with feedback to help us provide the most trusted, industry leading electronic signature services.

Momentous Electronic Signature Achievements of 2010, to Date

After posting significant achievements in 2009 including 300 percent growth in paid transactions, DocuSign continues to experience accelerated adoption rates of its trusted eSignature platform. To date, DocuSign:

• Surpassed 4 million electronic signature users and exceeded 78 million eSignature events to date.
• Supports more than 30,000 customers from large enterprise organizations to individual professionals by consistently delivering 99.993% uptime.
• DocuSign customers include American Airlines, Banner Life, BECU, Dave & Busters, Dow AgroSciences, EDGAR® Online, e-Rewards, Equity Residential, iPipeline, LinkedIn, F5 and Yamaha.
• Spearheaded an industry-wide effort to move the FHA to formally recognize electronically signed third-party documents.
• Continues to expand business partnerships with PropertyInfo, zipLogix and other leading businesses, and was selected as a national sponsor for salesforce.com Cloudforce 2.
• Leads in innovation with industry nominations and awards including 2010 Hot New Company, Best New Product and Salesforce Best Partner App.
• Recognizes and serves specialized customer needs with exclusive tailored editions—DocuSign REALTOR® Edition and DocuSign for Salesforce, DocuSign for Salesforce Real-Time Quotes and DocuSign for Salesforce Chatter Enabled.
• Dominates the SaaS-based eSignature market with an estimated 70 percent market share.