- DocuSign made public on Wednesday the paperwork it filed in advance of an initial public offering (IPO).
- The electronic signature company is nominally seeking to raise as much as $100 million.
- Although it is 15 years old, Docusign posted strong revenue growth and big losses in the most recent fiscal year it disclosed.
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$3.1 billion startup DocuSign just made its IPO paperwork public — its sales are growing, but it's still posting big losses
Docusign, the 15-year-old electronic signature company, brought in $382 million in sales in fiscal 2017, but it also posted a $115 million loss.
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DocuSign is indeed planning to go public.
The electronic signature company on Wednesday made public its S-1 document, the first regulatory step to an an initial public offering.
DocuSign, which plans to list its stock on the Nasdaq market under the ticker symbol DOCU, did not specify in the document how many shares it plans to sell or the price at which it plans to sell them. It nominally is seeking to raise as much as $100 million in the offering.
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The move follows reports from last week that Docusign had confidentially filed the paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The offering has been a long time in the making. The San Francisco startup is 15 years old and was founded during the early excitement over e-signatures. It was valued at $3.1 billion in 2015 in its last private funding round, according to PitchBook.
The company is only the latest enterprise software firm to seek an IPO in what's turning out to be a hot market for tech offerings.
Despite its age, the company finances — revealed publicly for the first time on Wednesday in the S-1 — make it appear like other tech startups: Its sales grew rapidly last year, but it's also posting big losses — or at least it was as of January 2017.
Although the company's fiscal year ends January 31, Docusign didn't include in its filing its operating results from its most recent fiscal year.
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With that in mind, here are some of the highlights of the S-1 filing:
- Total sales:
- Subscriptions revenue:
- Gross margin:
- Operating loss:
- Net loss:
- Total customers:
- Enterprise customers:
- Principle shareholders:
- Insider holdings:
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