Dropbox on Friday filed for an initial public offering (IPO), seeking to raise an estimated $500 million (roughly Rs. 3,240 crores) for the Silicon Valley cloud computing storage startup. The San Francisco company claimed 500 million users in 180 countries and $1 billion (roughly Rs. 6,480 crores) in annual revenues in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Dropbox said its shares will trade on the Nasdaq under the symbol "DBX."
Its valuation based on recent funding in the group stands at around $10 billion (Rs. 64,800 crores), making Dropbox one of the biggest Silicon Valley venture-backed "unicorns," or startups with a private valuation of more than $1 billion.
"The market is hot right now," tech analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group said while discussing the move by Dropbox to go public with shares.
"If you are going to do an IPO (initial public offering), you are in the window. People are investing."
What remains to be seen, Enderle noted, was whether Dropbox shrewdly spends the money it raises.
Dropbox is one of a number of tech firms centered around the Internet "cloud," allowing users to store data on one device for access by other computing devices.
Storing digital data from music and films to documents, presentations and images has become big business with the lifestyle shift to accessing content and services online from a cornucopia of internet-linked devices.
Source :- gadgets
Its valuation based on recent funding in the group stands at around $10 billion (Rs. 64,800 crores), making Dropbox one of the biggest Silicon Valley venture-backed "unicorns," or startups with a private valuation of more than $1 billion.
"The market is hot right now," tech analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group said while discussing the move by Dropbox to go public with shares.
"If you are going to do an IPO (initial public offering), you are in the window. People are investing."
What remains to be seen, Enderle noted, was whether Dropbox shrewdly spends the money it raises.
Dropbox is one of a number of tech firms centered around the Internet "cloud," allowing users to store data on one device for access by other computing devices.
Storing digital data from music and films to documents, presentations and images has become big business with the lifestyle shift to accessing content and services online from a cornucopia of internet-linked devices.
Source :- gadgets
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