| Website | dropbox.com |
| Blog | blog.dropbox.com |
| @Dropbox | |
| Category | Network/Hosting |
| Phone | Acunetix |
| press@dropbox.com | |
| Employees | 78 |
| Founded | 6/07 |
| Description | Always have your stuff, wherever you are |
| TapEngage, 7/12 |
| TOTAL | $257M |
| VENTURE FUNDING TOTAL | $257M |
| Seed, 6/07 Y Combinator | |
| Seed, 9/07 Sequoia Capital Hadi Partovi Ali Partovi Pejman Nozad | $1.2M |
| Series A, 10/08 Accel Partners Sequoia Capital | $6M |
| Series B, 10/11 Index Ventures RIT Capital Partners Valiant Capital Partners Benchmark Capital Goldman Sachs Greylock Partners Institutional Venture Partners Sequoia Capital Accel Partners Ali Partovi Hadi Partovi Glynn Capital Management | $250M |
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 created a demo of Dropbox and showed it to fellow MIT student Arash Ferdowsi, who dropped out with only one semester left to help make Dropbox a reality. Guiding their decisions was a relentless focus on crafting a simple and reliable experience across every computer and phone.
Drew and Arash moved to San Francisco in fall 2007, secured seed funding from Y Combinator, and set about building a world-class engineering team. In fall 2008, Sequoia Capital led a $7.2M Series A with Accel Partners to help bring Dropbox to people everywhere.
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