---
title: Announcing Pre-Seed and Open Metrics
description: We are exicited to report the closing of our Pre-Seed round. You can find the juicy details on our new /open page. Yes, it was signed using Documenso.
authorName: 'Timur Ercan'
authorImage: '/blog/blog-author-timur.jpeg'
authorRole: 'Co-Founder'
date: 2023-08-16
tags:
  - Funding
  - Metrics
  - Open Startup
---

### Two more for the road (to open signing)
Today I'm happy to announce that we closed a $1.25M Pre-Seed round for Documenso. The round actually closed last month, we just were sneaky about it. We are ecstatic to welcome [OSS Capital](https://twitter.com/osscapital) and especially [Joseph Jacks](https://twitter.com/JosephJacks_) to the inner circle of the open signing revolution. We are also fortunate to be joined by Orricks very own [John Harrison](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-harrison-a1213b9/) and his legal experience. For those who are wondering, yes, the round was, of course, signed properly using Documenso.

As teased in our last funding announcement, we are starting to release a lot of our data as part of the Open Startup movement. You can find the juicy details on our funding here: [documen.so/open](http://documen.so/open)

### Open Source, Open Metrics
If you follow us, you know we are firmly committed to the open source values of openness and transparency. For us, this includes not only the code side of things but also the business. As we aim to build trust among our investors, customers, and partners, we want to be open about want going on. We also want to allow everyone to learn from our data and choices, just as we did from so many other COSS (Commercial Open Source) startups. The term "Open Startup" is not precisely defined (and probably will never be, just like startup). There is a [great writeup by the founder of our favorite open source scheduling tool Cal.com](https://cal.com/blog/open-startup). For us, there are two sides to being an open startup:

- The company side: Sharing Financial KPIs like growth, funding, team structure, salary, internal processes, and tools
- The product side: Sharing insights and data like usage, reach, and GitHub activity

Both sides aim to contribute to the global knowledge base of how startups work, specifically COSS startups. As we see more and more COSS, best practices and business insights should be broadly available to let the space mature. As we contribute code to the global community, we also contribute our business knowledge to help bring about even more COSS.
