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-更多注资有助于在企业中推行智能合约
-Clause A轮融资中，董事会再填两名新成员
Clause作为领先的智能合约技术供应商宣布A轮融资以550万美元结束。该笔资金将用于加速Clause的商业发展、进一步巩固其制作团队，并且为更广泛的智能合约生态系统输送养分。
A轮投资由Galaxy Digital所引领，另有来自DocuSign的战略投资 ，以及现有投资方Lerer Hippeau的BN Capital，以及盘踞伦敦的Seedcamp的参与。数个新投资方也参与了融资，包括Raptor Group以及Block.one所支持的Galaxy Digital的EOS VC Fund、Nat Turner以及Zach Weinberg（Flatiron Health的联合创始人）、Tom Gonser（DocuSign的创始人）和Jonathan Summers（Everett Capital Advisors的联合创始人）。
作为A轮投资的一部分，两名新的董事将加入Clause的董事会。新的董事会成员包括：Mike Dinsdale（以云端为基础的企业人力管理公司Gusto的CFO）和Greg Wasserman（Galaxy Digital主要投资的联席主管）。
Clause创始人兼CEO Peter Hunn说道：“文件不再只是协议的静态记录，现在它们可以真正地融入企业技术堆栈。合同和其他文档现在可以成为API。这一轮，我们在通过数字化破坏企业合同方面增加了丰富的集体经验。我们很高兴能够推进下一个阶段，推出市场进行使用。”Galaxy Digital的Greg Wasserman提醒道：“大多数企业每年在不同领域签署了数以百万的文件。对于公司而言，监督和管理这些文件中的所有条款极为困难。将合同与数据相连，用以实现操作和警报的自动化，这显然就是文件数字化改革的下一个阶段。我相信在未来，智能条款将成为文件管理的默认标准，并且我很期待与Clause的合作。”
DocuSign的COO Scott Olrich补充道：“DocuSign对Clause的投资反映了智能条款可以对简化和加速整个协议流程所产生的影响。今年早些时候，我们宣布推出DocuSign协议云，一套用以数字传输组织准备、签署、执行和管理协议的产品和集成。其核心在于帮助企业实现自动化并连接自身完整的协议过程。Clause所引领的技术是推动此过程的重要技术之一，我们期待着未来与他们的合作。”
关于Clause
Clause是以云端为基础的领先智能合约技术的提供商，该技术使用户能够将智能条款添加到文档中，以实现业务流程，工作流和数字交易的自动化。该技术能够将文档完全集成到企业系统，Web服务和区块链中，从而形成自动化业务逻辑的支柱。拥有智能条款的合同（和其他文件）首次能够成为组织IT基础设施中一个正在使用的组成部分。Clause旨在使用自身智能合约技术统一众多通常分离的过程，并实现其自动化，从而最终降低交易工作流和合约管理的复杂性。
Robert Corrado
robert@wachsman.com
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-Injection of funding further helps bring smart contracts to enterprise
-Clause adds two new members to their board of directors as part of Series A Round
Clause, a leading provider of smart contracting technology, announces the close of a $5.5 million Series A round. The funds will be used to accelerate Clause’s business development efforts, further augment its engineering teams, and nurture the broader smart contract ecosystem.
The Series A round was led by Galaxy Digital, with strategic investment from DocuSign and participation from existing investors BN Capital at Lerer Hippeau, and London-based Seedcamp. Several new investors were added to the funding round including Raptor Group, Galaxy Digital’s EOS VC Fund backed by Block.one, Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg (co-founders of Flatiron Health), Tom Gonser (founder of DocuSign), and Jonathan Summers (co-founder of Everett Capital Advisors).
As part of the Series A round, two new executives will join the Clause board of directors. The new board members include: Mike Dinsdale, CFO of cloud-based enterprise people management company Gusto, and Greg Wasserman, Co-Head of Principal Investments at Galaxy Digital.
Peter Hunn, founder and CEO of Clause said: “Documents no longer need to be merely static records of agreement but can now be a truly integrated part of enterprise technology stacks. Contracts and other documents can now be APIs. With this round we add a wealth of collective experience in disrupting enterprise contracts through digitization. We are excited to drive the next phase of market adoption.”
Greg Wasserman of Galaxy Digital noted: “Major enterprises sign millions of documents per year across many different business units. It’s extremely difficult for companies to monitor and manage all of the terms within those documents. Connecting contracts with data to automate actions and alerts is an obvious next phase in the evolution of document digitization. I’m convinced that smart clauses will become a default standard for document management in the future and am excited to partner with Clause.”
DocuSign COO Scott Olrich added: “DocuSign’s investment in Clause reflects the impact that smart clauses can have on simplifying and accelerating the overall agreement process. Earlier this year, we announced the DocuSign Agreement Cloud-a suite of products and integrations for digitally transforming how organizations prepare, sign, act on, and manage agreements. At its core, this helps companies to automate and connect their entire agreement process. The technology being pioneered by Clause is one of the fundamental drivers here, and we’re looking forward to partnering with them for the future.”
About Clause
Clause is a leading provider of cloud-based smart contract technology, which enables users to add smart clauses to documents to automate business processes, workflows, and digital transactions. The technology allows documents to be integrated fully into enterprise systems, web services, and blockchains to form the backbone of automated business logic. Contracts (and other documents) empowered with smart clauses are, for the first time, capable of becoming a living part of an organization’s IT infrastructure. Clause aims to leverage their smart contract technology to unite and automate many of these often-disparate processes, ultimately reducing complexity in transaction workflows and contract management.
Robert Corrado
robert@wachsman.com
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