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Dropbox
Cybersecurity · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2007 · IPO 2018 Unicorn
File hosting service allowing customers to share and store their files online
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 JhaUnited States
Lilian WengUnited States
Charles YehUnited States
Steven HaoUnited States
Abhay ParasnisUnited States
Claire RudolphUnited States
James CowlingUnited States
Jiten VaidyaUnited States
Tom KleinpeterUnited States
Aditya AgarwalIndiaGlobal footprint
Where Dropbox has talent and traffic
(96 of 4,055 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$1B patent portfolio · 745 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”.
Sentiment on X
What X 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
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