The place where you may or may not store and share your photos, PDFs, and other documents is going public.
Dropbox, a cloud storage company based in Silicon Valley’s heart San Francisco, is listing on the Nasdaq under the stock ticker $DBX, acc…
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The Dropbox IPO filing is here
It’s official, the Dropbox IPO filing is here.
Going public is a huge milestone for Dropbox and has been one of the most anticipated tech IPOs for several years now. The company has been around since 2007 and has raised over $600 million in funding.
We knew that it had already filed confidentially, but the company has now unveiled its filing, meaning the actual IPO is likely very soon… Read More
Equity podcast: Dropbox and Xiaomi want to go public, and how big is Telegram’s ICO?
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Dropbox files confidentially for IPO
Dropbox has filed confidentially for IPO, according to Bloomberg. TechCrunch has been hearing that the cloud company plans to go public in early 2018. The company did not respond to request for comment. Read More
Former Nike CFO Don Blair joins Dropbox’s board of directors
As Dropbox continues its inevitable march toward an IPO, it’s going to look to bring in people with a lot of experience handling the operations of larger public companies — and it’s getting one today. Dropbox today said it is adding former Nike CFO Don Blair to the company’s board of directors. Blair will be joining the audit committee, the company said, and comes in with… Read More
Dropbox acquires publishing platform Verst, will shut it down on Dec. 21
The team behind Verst is joining Dropbox, in an acquisition that marks the end of the Verst publishing platform. The startup actually started life as DWNLD, a platform that transformed websites into mobile apps. It raised a $12 million Series A l…
View More Dropbox acquires publishing platform Verst, will shut it down on Dec. 21Dropbox partners with Autodesk to help users collaborate on large design files
Dropbox announced a couple of products today to make it easier for Autodesk users to access and share large design files. The products include an integrated desktop app for opening and saving Autodesk files stored in Dropbox and an app for viewing design files without the need for owning Autodesk. These products are long overdue given that Dropbox’s Ross Piper, who is head of ecosystem… Read More