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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Founders | Jason Boehmig, Cai GoGwilt |
| Headquarters | San Francisco , United States |
| Products | Contract lifecycle management software |
| Website | ironcladapp |
Ironclad is a software as a service company that makes contract management software. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Ironclad provides a platform for legal and business teams to create, store, and manage contracts online in a process known as contract lifecycle management. [1]
Ironclad, which is delivered as a cloud software application for a subscription fee, offers the ability to create customizable workflows to generate and sign digital contracts. [2] In addition to traditional contracts, Ironclad supports clickwrap agreement tracking. [3] Ironclad also allows legal teams to use AI to automatically scan contracts to extract key legal terms and assist lawyers with contract redlining, [4] [5] [6] which is built using an integration with OpenAI's GPT-3 and GPT-4 large language models. [4] [7] Signed contracts are then accessible in Ironclad's contract repository, with integrations to store files in cloud storage services like OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive. [8]
Ironclad was founded in 2014 by Jason Boehmig, a former attorney at Fenwick & West, and Cai GoGwilt, a former software engineer at Palantir. [9] The company participated in the summer 2015 batch of startup accelerator Y Combinator who provided the seed funding, and it launched with 200 companies already using the product in beta. [1] [10] [11] By 2019, Ironclad was listed as one of the top 50 largest Y Combinator companies according to valuation. [12] [13]
Ironclad has received several rounds of funding since its founding. The company's Series A, led by Accel, raised $8 million in 2017. [8] The Series B funding round was led by Sequoia Capital in 2018, raising $23 million. [14] In 2019, Ironclad raised $50 million in a Series C round led by Y Combinator and joined by Emergence Capital, with participation from Accel and other investors. [2] The company raised $100 million in Series D financing in 2021, and this round was led by Mary Meeker's BOND. [15] In January of 2022, Ironclad announced that it had raised $150 million in a Series E round funded entirely by existing investors, bringing the total private valuation to $3.2 billion. [9]
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