At Expedite Ventures, we’re always on the lookout for founders who spot real problems and just get to work solving them. Today, we’re excited to announce our investment in Agree.com, a platform built to fix the clunky, outdated world of digital transactions - starting with e-signatures and payments.
I first met Marty Ringlein, Agree.com’s founder, during a panel at SXSW back in 2015. Over the years, we’ve stayed in touch and earlier this year, during a trip to New York City, we met again. Marty is not just a successful serial founder, but also an accomplished investor, who also runs an angel fund. In our chat, he pointed out that despite his years of investing in promising startups, something crucial was NOT being built: a modernized, seamless e-signature experience that integrates payments—a gap that solutions like dinosaurs like DocuSign and HelloSign left unfilled. True to the entrepreneurial spirit, Marty didn’t just spot the problem, he decided to solve it. You could say “You can make an Angel Investor out of an Entrepreneur, but you can’t take the Entrepreneur out of an Angel Investor.” He rallied his team, composed of veterans with proven track records, and set out to build Agree.com.
Agree.com is poised to redefine how we think about contracts and payments. It doesn’t stop at signatures—it closes the loop by automating the entire contract-to-payment workflow. Agree.com will offer free e-signatures, extracting critical contract data to dynamically generate invoices, manage accounts receivable, and facilitate seamless payments—all in one platform.
When Marty told me about this idea, I was immediately sold - and I guess everybody else will be, because we all feel the daily pain of outdated solutions we have to deal with. Agree.com embodies the future of contract management and payments. By combining AI, document management, and payments, they tackle inefficiencies in the fintech and legaltech space that others overlook. Their vision goes beyond e-signatures—it’s about leveraging contract data to automate financial workflows, reducing friction and driving revenue.
And when we see what Marty, Will, and the team have pulled off in the last few months, we’re more than impressed. And we’re not (just) talking about investor progress reports here. We’re talking about securing an awesome domain, orchestrating killer PR with features everywhere from TechCrunch and Fortune to Billboards and Podcasts, going all-in on social and even grass-roots guerilla marketing, and crushing it at Andrew Yeung’s OOO Summit. Seriously, Marty—how many hours does YOUR day have? It’s amazing what a dedicated and seasoned founder can accomplish in such a short time.
And when you see the names of investors who jumped in on the $3M pre-seed round, it’s clear they’re onto something big: Our friends at 8-Bit Capital 👋 and Everywhere Ventures 👋 - as well as Better Tomorrow Ventures Firsthand Alliance, Hustle Fund Singh Capital Partners and Trust Fund. Needless to say, we all signed the contracts via Agree.com.
Congrats to the team—we look forward to supporting you on this exciting journey.
And YOU should get started for free with using Agree.com for e-signatures right now.
– Thomas, Lead Angel for Agree.com
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