DocuSign has raised $45m in a round of funding from Dell and Intel Capital, bringing the company’s Series F round of funding to more than $278m.

DocuSign plans to use the fund towards further expanding its global reach.

Presently, DocuSign has more than 100,000 customers and more than 50 million users across 188 countries, and the company helps them digitise for better ROI, increased security and compliance and better customer experiences.

DocuSign is known for managing signatures online, and pass along contracts and business plans securely to its customers.

However, its only 5% of its entire business, which also includes managing document process and provides encryption, permissions, and compliance of the document.

DocuSign CEO Keith Krach said: "We are pleased to have the biggest technology brands invest in DocuSign as part of The DocuSign Global Trust Network.

"These strategic engagements will help bring the power and value of DocuSign’s DTM platform to more countries, companies and customers around the world."

Till date, DocuSign has secured $500m from investors including Google Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, VISA, Salesforce Ventures, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, Telstra, and Comcast Ventures.

Intel Security Group vice president Rick Echevarria said: "Intel and DocuSign share a hyper-focus on creating trusted platforms to power our customers’ success.

"We’ve seen the value of the DocuSign platform, and we look forward to integrating our offerings to help our customers worldwide securely transact anything, anytime, anywhere, on Intel-powered devices."