Dropbox

Always have your stuff, wherever you are

Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Frustrated by working from multiple computers, Drew was inspired to create a service that would let people bring all their files anywhere, with no need to email around attachments. Drew...

Founded in 2007
Employees: 221
Homepage: http://www.dropbox.com
Blog: http://blog.dropbox.com
Total money raised: $257.2M

Headquarters

94107 San Francisco
USA CA

Phone: Acunetix

Updated on Mar 25, 2013
Dropbox at CrunchBase

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Drew Houston Founder & CEO
Arash Ferdowsi Founder & CTO
Ruchi Sanghvi VP of Operations
Sujay Jaswa VP, Business Development
Hadi Partovi Advisor
Bryan Schreier Board Member
Jeff Bartelma Director of Product
Aditya Agarwal VP Engineering
John Lilly Investor
Allison House Product Designer
Morgan Knutson Product Designer
Ali Partovi Advisor
Rian Hunter Head of Client Engineering
Ramsey Homsany General Counsel
Makinde Adeagbo
Soleio Cuervo Design
Adam Polselli Product Designer
Boris Babenko Engineer
Past
Adam Gross SVP, Marketing & Sales
Aston Motes Software Engineer
Rajiv Eranki Head of Server Engineering
Sean Ellis Marketing Advisor
Ivan Kirigin Product Manager

March, 2013

Dropbox acquired Mailbox for $100M

Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million

January, 2013

Dropbox acquired TapEngage

Dropbox Acquires Small Tablet Marketing Company TapEngage

December, 2012

Dropbox acquired Snapjoy

Dropbox to acquire photo-focused startup Snapjoy

venturebeat.com

Dropbox acquired Audiogalaxy

Audiogalaxy acquired by Dropbox, announces end of streaming service

November, 2012

Dropbox reaches 100 million users, founders not concerned about competing services

February, 2012

Dropbox acquired Cove

Dropbox Buys Cove To Bring Former Facebookers Ruchi Sanghvi And Aditya Agarwal To The Team

Dropbox Buys Cove To Bring Former Facebookers Ruchi Sanghvi And Aditya Agarwal To The Team

October, 2011

Dropbox raised $250M in a Series B round from Index Ventures, RIT Capital Partners, Valiant Capital Partners, Benchmark, Goldman Sachs, Greylock Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Glynn Capital Management, and SV Angel

Dropbox Raises $250M In Funding, Boasts 45 Million Users

August, 2011

Index Leads $4 billion Valuation Round In Dropbox

October, 2008

Dropbox raised $6M in a Series A round from Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital

Dropbox Raised $6 Million Sequoia-Led Series A In October 2008

September, 2007

Dropbox raised $1.2M in seed round from Sequoia Capital and Pejman Nozad

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/04/secretive-storage-company-dropbox-took-sequoia-funding-in-2007/

June, 2007

Dropbox was founded on June, 2007

Dropbox raised unknown amount in seed round from Y Combinator