PandaDoc

PandaDoc

A document-automation company that reached a $1 billion valuation in 2021, founded by Belarusian entrepreneurs whose Minsk employees were detained after the founders spoke out during the Belarus political crackdown.

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Location

San Francisco, California, United States

Country

United States

Founded

2013

Founders

Mikita Mikado, Sergey Barysiuk

Valuation at Series C (2021)

$1 billion

Overview

PandaDoc is a San Francisco-based document-automation company founded in 2013 by Belarusian entrepreneurs Mikita Mikado and Sergey Barysiuk (VentureBeat, Tech.eu). Its platform is an all-in-one workspace for quotes, proposals, contracts, document tracking and e-signature, integrating with customer-relationship-management tools like Salesforce (VentureBeat).

From Minsk to a $1 billion valuation

Mikita Mikado — PandaDoc’s CEO — built the company from its 2013 San Francisco founding through a $15 million Series B round led by Rembrandt Venture Partners, with Microsoft Ventures, HubSpot, the EBRD and Altos Ventures participating; roughly $6 million had been raised before that (VentureBeat). In September 2021 the company closed a Series C valuing it at $1 billion, co-led by OMERS Growth Equity and G Squared, at a point when it served roughly 30,000 customers on a freemium model (TechCrunch).

The Belarus crackdown

What distinguishes PandaDoc’s story from a standard SaaS funding narrative is its founders’ Belarusian roots colliding with that country’s 2020–2021 political crackdown. After Mikado and Barysiuk spoke out, employees of the company in Minsk were detained and arrested (TechCrunch) — making PandaDoc’s unicorn milestone a tech-diaspora story as much as a venture one.

Lisbon and the Índico round

In December 2025, Índico Capital Partners invested €5 million in PandaDoc, tied to the company’s Lisbon hub and office (Tech.eu).

What this profile does not claim

The year 2011 sometimes appears in coverage in connection with the team; it refers to the predecessor product Quote Roller, NOT PandaDoc’s founding — this profile uses 2013, per the fully-read sources.
Customer counts beyond the roughly 30,000 figure from 2021 are not stated here.
Details of the Minsk detentions beyond what TechCrunch reported are not stated — the exact number of detained employees was not specified in the fully-read source.
Current valuation and revenue are not verified beyond the 2021 Series C.

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