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Dropbox
Cybersecurity · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2007 · IPO 2018
Dropbox mafia
Startups founded by Dropbox alumni
Former Dropbox employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Erik GoldmanUnited States
Tim ShiUnited States
Madhav JhaIndia
Michael GrinichUnited States
Steven HaoUnited States
Lilian WengUnited States
Charles YehUnited States
Jiten VaidyaUnited States
Tony VincentUnited States
Aditya AgarwalIndia
Tom KleinpeterUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Dropbox has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Dropbox's talent
Dealroom maps Dropbox's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$1B patent portfolio · 759 active families
Where Dropbox concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Dropbox and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Dropbox's 36 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Dropbox appeared as a 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.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
02 · Portfolio market map
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
What the market is saying about Dropbox
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Dropbox on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
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.