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Dropbox
File hosting service allowing customers to share and store their files online
At a glance
- Founded
- 2007
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2018
- Sector
- Cybersecurity
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Dropbox.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed7 investors entered at this stage
Pejman Nozad
SV Angel- HPHadi Partovi
Plug and Play
Y Combinator
Sequoia- APAli Partovi
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later14 investors entered at this stage
Queensbridge Venture Partners
Morgan Stanley
BlackRock- VPValiant Capital Partners
- RPRIT Capital Partners
Greylock Partners
Goldman Sachs
Acequia Capital
Benchmark
IVP
Index Ventures
Salesforce Ventures
T. Rowe Price
Slow Ventures
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Dropbox employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Erik GoldmanUnited States
CRCrestaEst. 2017
Tim ShiUnited States
ELEmergent LabsEst. 2024
Madhav JhaIndia
WOWorkOSEst. 2019
Michael GrinichUnited States
CACognition | Devin AIEst. 2023
Steven HaoUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
759 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Dropbox was the backer or acquirer, 2012–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
36 deals across Dropbox's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Dropbox deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Dropbox's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Dropbox on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
See Dropbox on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.