Dropbox

Dropbox, established in 2007, is a leading provider of secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions. It pioneered cloud storage and cross-platform file syncing, initially targeting individuals and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Over time, Dropbox has expanded its product mix, diversifying beyond its core cloud-storage offerings to cater to a broader range of users and use cases. Its mission is to "unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working."

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Halcyon

Series C in 2024
Halcyon is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting enterprise clients from ransomware threats. It provides a platform that integrates layered ransomware protection, utilizing pre-execution detection, behavioral modeling, and deception techniques. This comprehensive approach aims to enhance the resilience of its clients, facilitating recovery and isolation of affected nodes. Halcyon primarily serves mid-market and enterprise customers, ensuring they are equipped to mitigate the risks associated with ransomware attacks.

Highnote

Venture Round in 2024
Highnote is an innovative audio creators platform tailored for musicians, podcasters, and voiceover artists. It provides tools for capturing notes, annotating audio files, and collecting feedback seamlessly. Users can ask questions, create polls, and compare multiple versions of their work, all within a single interface. The platform allows listeners to respond and provide feedback directly on audio tracks without the need for account creation or app downloads. By facilitating high-quality audio streaming and efficient workflow management, Highnote aims to enhance collaboration and streamline the creative process for audio creators globally. As the industry for creator tools and services approaches a significant market size, Highnote positions itself as a pivotal resource for empowering music makers and audio professionals.

Reclaim.ai

Acquisition in 2024
Reclaim.ai is a calendar management tool that utilizes artificial intelligence and automation to help users prioritize their work and maintain balanced schedules. The platform allows individuals to evaluate the importance of their scheduled meetings and events, enabling them to manage their digital calendars more effectively. By analyzing how time is allocated, Reclaim.ai provides insights and recommendations to keep users and their teams organized and focused. This tool is designed to enhance time management, ensuring that clients can efficiently navigate their commitments and responsibilities.

Bardeen

Venture Round in 2024
Bardeen is a no-code workflow automation tool designed to enhance productivity by automating repetitive tasks. The company offers application software that allows users to streamline their workflows through a simple browser extension. This extension enables users to select from a variety of pre-built automation tasks, such as transferring information into spreadsheets, scraping web data, and sending meeting reminders. Users also have the option to create custom automation workflows or adapt existing ones to suit their specific requirements. By connecting diverse services and simplifying task management, Bardeen empowers individuals and teams to operate more efficiently in their business activities.

Lightbeam.ai

Series A in 2024
LightBeam.ai is a leader in data security and privacy automation, dedicated to helping organizations manage and access sensitive information securely. The company offers a platform that utilizes advanced data management, entity linkage techniques, and deep learning to analyze documents, speech, and natural language processing at scale. This technology integrates seamlessly with various data sources across industries, enabling clients to derive actionable insights while maintaining data privacy and confidentiality. By providing a unified control tower for data cataloging, access, and sharing, LightBeam empowers privacy and compliance executives to ensure continuous compliance, while information security professionals can trust that sensitive data is accessed and utilized securely.

Augie Studio

Seed Round in 2023
Augie Studio is an innovative startup specializing in AI-driven video creation technology. It focuses on providing tools that enable creators to effortlessly transform text or audio prompts into engaging videos. By leveraging a unique platform, Augie Studio allows users to enhance their video content with a mix of open, licensed, and generative media, ensuring that even those without extensive technical skills can produce professional-quality visuals. The company's mission is to democratize video creation, making it accessible and enjoyable for all creators while they engage with their audiences.

FormSwift

Acquisition in 2022
FormSwift is a cloud-based service that offers individuals and businesses a modern solution for managing paperwork. It provides a platform where users can access a variety of free legal documents and utilize pre-built templates to create customized forms. The service allows for easy editing, enabling users to fill out documents and add various fields to create reusable forms. By simplifying the process of customizing, signing, and downloading popular business, legal, and personal forms, FormSwift enhances efficiency and accessibility for its users.

BoxCryptor

Acquisition in 2022
BoxCryptor is a cloud storage encryption platform that ensures users' data is securely encrypted on their devices before being synchronized to various cloud services, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive. Utilizing advanced AES-256 and RSA encryption, BoxCryptor guarantees that users maintain full control over their sensitive information, adhering to a zero-knowledge standard that prevents even the company from accessing user data. The software allows for seamless encryption of files and folders, with fast and automatic synchronization to the cloud, making it easy for users to enjoy the advantages of cloud storage while on the go. Additionally, BoxCryptor offers mobile applications for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, enabling convenient access to encrypted files from any device. Portable versions for Windows, Linux, and Mac further enhance flexibility, allowing encryption without the need for installation or administrative rights.

Dropbox DocSend

Acquisition in 2021
Dropbox DocSend is a secure document sharing and tracking solution that helps companies share business-critical documents with ease. With Dropbox DocSend companies can track who opens their document and how much time they spend on each page, protect documents with security features like email verification and viewer whitelisting, and share multiple documents with a single link using Spaces, our virtual deal room. The company was founded in San Francisco by three Stanford computer science graduates who have experience at Google, Dropbox, Facebook, and Intuit. DocSend was acquired by Dropbox in March, 2021, and rebranded to Dropbox DocSend in January 2022.

Peanut App

Series A in 2019
Peanut App Limited is a London-based company that has developed a social networking application designed to connect mothers with shared interests and similar-aged children. Launched in 2016, the app facilitates group chats and encourages face-to-face meetings, fostering a supportive community for women at comparable stages in life. Peanut's mission is to create a safe environment where women can build friendships, seek support, and exchange knowledge. The app is available for free on both iOS and Android platforms.

Valt

Acquisition in 2019
Valt Inc. is a company that developed a password management tool aimed at enhancing digital security and protecting users' identities. Founded in 2016 and based in North Adams, Massachusetts, Valt offers a unique platform that utilizes image recognition software to simplify password management. Users can create and store passwords represented by a series of images, eliminating the hassle of forgotten passwords. This innovative approach to password protection enables users to access their data across multiple devices while efficiently managing, generating, and retrieving passwords. In 2019, Valt was acquired by Dropbox, further integrating its security solutions into a broader digital ecosystem.

BetterCloud

Corporate Round in 2019
BetterCloud, Inc. specializes in cloud office solutions, focusing on SaaS management for organizations globally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, with an additional location in Atlanta, BetterCloud provides a centralized platform that offers insights into employee SaaS adoption, streamlining IT decision-making and license management across various applications. The company's services include user lifecycle management, data discovery, security automation, and IT automation. Its automation engine, Workflows, orchestrates complex processes, ensuring accuracy and compliance. BetterCloud also features platform APIs for securing SaaS ecosystems and tools for content scanning across major platforms such as Google Drive, Microsoft SharePoint, and Slack. Serving a diverse range of sectors, including healthcare, education, and technology, BetterCloud empowers IT professionals to enhance productivity and security while managing an increasingly complex landscape of SaaS applications.

Onna

Series A in 2019
Onna Technologies, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in artificial intelligence software for real-time search across various data repositories. Established in 2014, it offers a Knowledge Integration Platform that connects information silos from multiple applications, including email, social media, and cloud storage services like G Suite and Office 365. This platform aids organizations in eDiscovery, information governance, and knowledge management by unifying, protecting, and analyzing fragmented data. Onna’s technology allows legal departments to efficiently identify high-value documents and sensitive information while ensuring data is collected in compliance with legal standards. By leveraging a self-learning neural network, the platform enhances the search and preservation of data, ultimately enabling businesses to save time, reduce risk, and gain competitive insights. Onna serves prominent clients such as Dropbox and Electronic Arts and has received significant investment from notable firms.

HelloSign

Acquisition in 2019
HelloSign is a developer of an eSignature platform that aims to streamline business transactions through digital solutions. The company offers a range of services, including e-signatures for online document signing, a customizable eSignature API, digital workflows, and online faxing technology. By enabling businesses to replace traditional methods such as faxes and postal mail with digital processes, HelloSign supports efficiency and automation in managing important business documents. Trusted by millions of users and over 60,000 companies globally, HelloSign focuses on enhancing user experience and fostering innovation to simplify work for organizations of all sizes.

Command E

Acquisition in 2018
Command E develops a computer tool that simplifies workspace navigation by providing an easy keyboard shortcut to access various documents, contacts, files, and records stored in the cloud. This functionality allows users to quickly search the cloud without the need to sift through multiple tabs or systems, improving efficiency and productivity. The tool is compatible with both Mac and Windows operating systems, specifically using Command-E and Control-E, respectively. By streamlining the process of locating vital information, Command E enhances the user experience in managing digital content.

Verst

Acquisition in 2017
Verst is an all-in-one online publishing platform founded in 2014, designed to enhance the publishing process for professional blogs and content. The platform offers tools that enable users to publish content effectively, discover key insights, and optimize media engagement. With features like built-in A/B testing, Verst empowers media companies and brands to boost audience engagement and improve the performance of their media content.

Sparks

Acquisition in 2016
Sparks is a company based in San Francisco that has developed a mobile platform for creating memes. Users can search for images or animated GIFs using an integrated image search engine, add personalized messages, and customize the typeface and placement of the text. Once satisfied with their creations, users can easily share their memes with friends, fostering a new way to express and discuss interests and ideas.

Volley

Seed Round in 2016
Volley Labs, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in developing an adaptive learning platform powered by artificial intelligence. The firm creates software designed to automatically generate training content for organizations, utilizing a knowledge engine that synthesizes and recommends learning material. Additionally, Volley develops mobile learning games that identify knowledge gaps among employees and provide tailored solutions. Established in 2014, Volley has garnered recognition as a leading AI innovator in the enterprise learning sector, with a client base that includes notable Fortune 100 companies in financial services. The company's founding team comprises experts in machine learning and natural language processing with backgrounds from major technology and intelligence organizations. Volley is also a prominent collaborator with the UC Santa Cruz Center for Excellence in Data Science Research, further emphasizing its commitment to advancing knowledge management and learning automation.

Clementine

Acquisition in 2015
Clementine is a developer of a hypnotherapy application aimed at enhancing the well-being of women. The company offers virtual professional hypnotherapy sessions designed to promote calmness, confidence, and improved sleep. Additionally, Clementine provides a range of wellness products that support women in managing stress and building self-assurance. They also create customized digital therapeutics for brands seeking to offer comprehensive mental well-being solutions to their customers. Through its innovative approach, Clementine empowers women to feel more confident and capable in their daily lives.

Umano

Acquisition in 2015
Umano is an audio streaming service.

Pixelapse

Acquisition in 2015
Pixelapse is a visual version control and collaboration platform tailored for designers. The platform enhances the design process by simplifying version control, making it easier for designers to share, discuss, and collaborate on their work. It offers features that allow users to compare different versions of designs, facilitating clear communication through powerful annotation and discussion tools. By providing these resources, Pixelapse empowers designers to articulate their ideas effectively and streamline their collaborative efforts.

CloudOn

Acquisition in 2015
CloudOn is a developer of applications designed for smartphones and tablets, focusing on enhancing mobile productivity. The company offers a cloud storage solution that allows users to create, review, and share files seamlessly across various devices. By integrating essential applications into a single workspace, CloudOn aims to streamline the user experience and improve efficiency in managing files and tasks on mobile platforms.

Predictive Edge

Acquisition in 2014
Predictive Edge specializes in e-commerce personalization, offering a cloud-based software platform that simplifies content customization for marketers. This service enables marketers to effortlessly manage various elements such as banners, images, and text through an intuitive point-and-click interface. By leveraging advanced data mining and artificial intelligence techniques, Predictive Edge allows retailers to optimize product pricing and tailor promotions based on specific customer parameters. The platform also includes a reporting dashboard that displays the results of A/B tests, highlighting their statistical significance to inform marketing strategies.

Parastructure

Acquisition in 2014
Parastructure is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 by a team of Stanford University computer scientists. It specializes in developing data analysis and visualization software that empowers users to interpret and analyze data effectively. The company leverages advanced open-source infrastructure to create tools that enhance data analysis capabilities. Parastructure has received funding from Accel Partners and various prominent angel investors, positioning itself as a key player in the data analytics software market.

MobileSpan

Acquisition in 2014
MobileSpan, based in Santa Clara, California, was founded in 2011 to aid enterprises in adapting to a mobile-centric work environment. The company develops a remote access platform that allows employees to securely access corporate content behind firewalls. Its Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) system integrates seamlessly with existing corporate infrastructures, extending access to document repositories and web applications on personal devices. This capability enables a flexible workforce to operate from any location while ensuring compliance with data governance standards and maintaining integration with company management systems.

Droptalk

Acquisition in 2014
Droptalk is a tool that is used via Chrome extension that is meant to change the way communication is done in the workplace by not relying on emails. The tool features web sharing, cloud sharing, and a messaging-style interface. It was founded by a team of ex-Facebook and ex-LinkedIn engineers.

Bubbli

Acquisition in 2014
Bubbli is a developer of a mobile photography application that specializes in creating spherical photos, referred to as "bubbles." The application allows users to capture images with a three-dimensional, full panoramic view, enhancing the mobile photography experience. By leveraging advanced technology, Bubbli enables users to explore their surroundings in a unique way, making it easier to share immersive visual experiences.

Loom

Acquisition in 2014
Loom, Inc. is a video messaging application development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. The company offers a platform that enables users to record and share videos, capturing screen, voice, and face, which can be instantly shared via a link through email or messaging. This tool is widely utilized across various business functions, including engineering, sales, recruiting, marketing, and customer support, facilitating efficient communication within teams. Additionally, Loom addresses the challenges of photo and video management by providing a cloud-based solution that allows users to access and manage their media libraries seamlessly across devices, without consuming local storage space. The company, which was previously known as Opentest, Inc., has garnered support from investors, including YCombinator.

HackPad

Acquisition in 2014
HackPad is a provider of a cloud-based text editing platform designed to enhance collaboration among users. The platform allows for the creation of smart collaborative documents that serve various purposes, including company wikis, personal notes, event planning, and classroom collaboration. By offering features such as instant collaboration, commenting, and real-time editing, HackPad enables groups of people to work together more effectively and efficiently. Its focus on making wikis more user-friendly facilitates seamless communication and information sharing among team members.

Readmill

Acquisition in 2014
Readmill is a Berlin-based social reading platform that offers users the ability to read ebooks, highlight passages, and share these highlights with friends, fostering discussions around the content. Founded and led by CEO Henrik Berggren, Readmill has formed partnerships with several independent bookstores, including Leanpub, Readlists, Free-ebooks.net, Jottify, OR Books, Publit, and Bibliocrunch, enhancing its offerings and reach within the literary community. The platform aims to create a collaborative reading experience that combines individual engagement with social interaction.

Zulip

Acquisition in 2014
Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is designed for both live and asynchronous conversations. Zulip topics create a separate space for each discussion, so different conversations will never get in each other's way. Teams of all sizes rely on Zulip - Fortune 500 companies, open-source projects, startups, and many others. Zulip is 100% open-source enterprise-grade software, self-hosted or in the cloud. Zulip can transform how your organization communicates: - Leaders can prioritize their time and batch-reply to messages, and thus effectively participate in the chat community. - More discussions can be moved from meetings and email to chat. - Individual contributors can do focused work instead of paging through GIFs making sure they don’t miss anything important. -Remote workers can participate in an equal way to people present in person. -Employees don’t need to be glued to their keyboard or phone in order to avoid missing out on important conversations. -Everyone saves a huge amount of wasted time and attention.

PiCloud

Acquisition in 2013
PiCloud is a prominent provider of cloud computing solutions focused on batch processing, high performance computing, and scientific computing. The company offers a user-friendly platform that integrates seamlessly with Amazon Web Services, allowing developers to harness significant computing power without the complexities of managing virtual servers. PiCloud's services cater to a wide range of applications, including web crawling, image and video processing, analytics computation, and simulation execution. By enabling users to run Python code on its cluster, PiCloud supports the development of algorithms, web applications, and software, attracting a global community of developers seeking efficient and scalable solutions.

Sold

Acquisition in 2013
With a few pictures and a description of an item you wish to sell, Sold will price the item, sell it, handle the shipping, and deposit the customers funds directly into their bank account.

Foundry Hiring

Acquisition in 2013
Foundry Hiring is an online recruitment platform established in 2011 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in providing an applicant tracking system that enables organizations to efficiently manage their hiring processes. Its innovative application integrates with email, allowing businesses to import job applicants directly from emails, schedule interviews, and organize events related to the hiring process. Additionally, the platform tracks the status of applicants throughout the recruitment pipeline and facilitates feedback collection on interviewees, streamlining the overall recruitment experience for employers.

Endorse

Acquisition in 2013
Endorse is a mobile offline marketing platform designed for consumer product companies, enabling them to connect with shoppers on an individual level. The company allows consumers to earn rewards for their loyalty to favorite brands, effectively closing the online-to-offline purchase loop. By utilizing item-level receipt data, Endorse provides personalized offers tailored to consumers' purchase histories and social media profiles. This approach helps brands enhance their marketing strategies and engage customers more effectively, ultimately driving proven retail sales in physical stores.

TapEngage

Acquisition in 2013
TapEngage is a startup focused on enhancing tablet advertising by facilitating collaboration between advertisers and publishers. The company offers a platform specifically designed for tablet-optimized advertising, which includes tools for content and application development. This platform connects advertisers with a network of publishers and exchanges, streamlining the process of promoting users' tablet apps and websites. Through its innovative approach, TapEngage aims to improve the effectiveness of advertising on tablet devices, catering to the unique needs of both advertisers and publishers.

Mailbox

Acquisition in 2013
Mailbox is a completely redesigned inbox that makes email light, fast, and mobile-friendly. Quickly swipe messages to your archive or trash. Scan an entire conversation at once with chat-like organization. Snooze emails until later with the tap of a button — they’ll return to your inbox automatically so you can focus on what's important now. Mailbox checks your email from the cloud and delivers it to your phone securely. Now with Auto-swipe, Mailbox learns from your swipes and snoozes to automate common actions. Mute that conversation you don’t care about, snooze messages from your friend to this evening, or route all of your receipts to a list — automatically. Mailbox’s delightful UI and smart features make getting to zero — and staying there — a breeze. After you experience a clean inbox, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.

Snapjoy

Acquisition in 2012
Snapjoy is an online photo storage service that enables users to upload and organize their photos from various sources. Launched in 2011 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Snapjoy intelligently categorizes photos using metadata, ensuring that users can easily find and access their images. The platform automatically eliminates duplicate uploads, enhancing the user experience. By default, all photos uploaded to Snapjoy remain private; however, users have the option to share specific albums with friends. If granted permission, friends can also copy photos into their own Snapjoy albums, fostering collaboration and sharing among users.

Audiogalaxy

Acquisition in 2012
Audiogalaxy's cloud music makes all your music and playlists accessible to other computers and devices including Windows, Intel Mac, Android, and iOS devices. Audigoalaxy supports MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WMA, and OGG file formats. Audiogalaxy makes your music available to you wherever you are without the hassle of copying, syncing, or uploading your music. After creating an account Audiogalaxy will prompt you to install the Audiogalaxy Helper which will find your music and make it available to you to other devices and computers. You can also find people who have similar musical tastes and follow what hot music they are listening to.

Anchovi Labs

Acquisition in 2012
Anchovi Labs is developing a new way to organize, browse and share your personal photos.

Cove

Acquisition in 2012
Cove was a collaboration, coordination and communication product for organizations and communities. The company was acquired by [Dropbox](/organization/dropbox) to bring co-founders [Aditya Agarwal](/person/aditya-agarwal) and [Ruchi Sanghvi](/person/ruchi-sanghvi) to the Dropbox team.
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