Clause is a smart legal-contract technology company that developed a connected-contracting platform before being acquired by DocuSign. Clause's Twitter Score is 13 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #73,059 among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Clause was co-founded by Peter Hunn, Houman Shadab, and Dan Selman to build contracting infrastructure that embedded smart clauses inside legally enforceable agreements, connecting them to real-time data feeds and enterprise systems to automate notifications, compliance checks, status updates, and payments. In 2021, DocuSign agreed to acquire the company's intellectual-property rights and bring the majority of its team into DocuSign's platform engineering organization, making the transaction an IP-and-team acquisition rather than a full corporate purchase.
Clause raised a $5.5 million Series A round, announced in June 2019, led by Galaxy Digital and including a strategic investment from DocuSign. Earlier backers had included Lerer Hippeau, Seedcamp, Raptor Group, and the Galaxy Digital EOS VC Fund.
Clause also launched the Accord Project, an open-source initiative to establish technical and legal standards for smart legal contracts, which subsequently became a project under the Linux Foundation. Clause was formerly a member of both Hyperledger and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Clause's account has been active since 2015 and has published 954 posts, and has been mentioned by 32 accounts a total of 107 times.
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Clause has 2,128 followers as of September 2026 on the platform. The accounts that follow Clause include 60 founders, 8 angel investors, 17 influencers and 5 VCs, among them Vance Spencer, Matthew Graham, Zmanian, Cuy Sheffield, Aaron Wright and Framework Ventures.