# DROPBOX, INC.

Summary updated: 2026-10-02T16:11:25.304516Z
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## Overview

Dropbox, Inc. is a software company focused on digital file storage, sharing, and collaboration. Its subscription-based platform lets users organize and access content across devices, share files, and collaborate; its products include Dropbox, Dropbox Backup, Dropbox Sign, DocSend, Dropbox Dash, Replay, and Transfer. The company describes its mission as “to design a more enlightened way of working.” [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P72655891)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P48439400)[3](https://www.dropbox.com/about)

Founded in 2007, Dropbox serves users globally through its digital platform. For the year ended December 31, 2025, it reported revenue of $2.521 billion, and had 18.08 million paying users and 2,113 full-time employees at year-end, including 501 outside the United States. [4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P93394860)[5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T4853059)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P48760796)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P44343642)
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## Products & services

Dropbox’s core product is its cloud workspace, which lets users create and organize content, access it across devices, share it with collaborators, and review feedback and file history. Paid plans include individual, family, professional, team and enterprise options; team plans are centrally managed, while Family supports up to six people. Core features include shared links with options such as passwords and expiration dates on eligible plans, file requests that collect uploads into a private folder, and full-text search on selected plans. [6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P48760796)[8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P58986269)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P73301435)[10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P69216294)[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P100009642)

Additional products include Dropbox Backup, which continuously backs up selected PC or Mac folders and syncs changes; Dropbox Transfer, which sends files or collections by link to recipients who need not have Dropbox accounts, with limits up to 100 GB depending on plan; and Dropbox Sign, an electronic-signature and document-workflow service that can sync signed copies to Dropbox. [12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P2963541)[13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P8160819)[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P64649008) Dropbox Dash provides AI-powered search across Dropbox and connected third-party apps, using existing permissions and security controls; Dropbox describes its search as supporting natural-language and contextual queries. [15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P84746192)[16](https://dash.dropbox.com/features/universal-search)[17](https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/what-can-i-do-with-dropbox-dash)

Dropbox also offers DocSend for secure document sharing and analytics, including virtual data rooms; Dropbox Replay for video review and collaboration; and Reclaim.ai for calendar and time-management features such as task scheduling and focus time. [18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P11334372)[19](https://www.docsend.com/what-is-docsend/)[20](https://www.docsend.com/features/virtual-data-room/)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P44343642)[21](https://www.dropbox.com/replay)[22](https://learn.dropbox.com/self-guided-learning/reclaim-fundamentals-course/reclaim-how-to-use-tasks) Its developer platform supports integrations with third-party apps and workflows. [23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P41622622)

Dropbox reports company-wide revenue, but the FY2025 disclosure does not break out revenue or performance percentages by product. [24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P48096268)
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## Geographic presence

For the year ended December 31, 2025, Dropbox reported revenue of $2.521 billion: $1.421 billion (56.4%) from the U.S. and $1.100 billion (43.6%) internationally. Revenue geography is generally based on the customer address in the subscription agreement. No individual country outside the U.S. accounted for more than 10% of revenue in 2023–2025. [25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P46953274)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T7599773)[27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P43340522)

At year-end 2025, Dropbox had 2,113 full-time employees: 1,612 in the U.S. (76.3%) and 501 outside the U.S. (23.7%). The company describes its Virtual First model as making remote work its primary experience and its workforce as increasingly geographically distributed; the filing does not provide a further country-level employee breakdown. [28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P101165483)[29](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P38912377)

Dropbox’s headquarters are in San Francisco, with additional leased offices including Seattle and Dublin. It also lists data-center co-location facilities in Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Paris and Hamburg. [30](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P60731111)
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## Business segments

Dropbox, Inc. reports one operating segment and one reportable segment, rather than separate product or geographic segments. Management evaluates the business at the consolidated level, using consolidated financial results to assess performance [32](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P92002638)[33](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P73006451). The company reaffirmed this single-segment reporting in its Q2 2026 filing [34](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154797745)[35](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P154797398).

The single reported segment generated $2,521.0 million of revenue in FY2025, representing 100% of consolidated revenue; Dropbox does not disclose revenue or percentage contributions for individual products, plans, or customer groups [24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P48096268). Its filings describe product and plan groupings—including individual and team subscriptions, and products such as Sign, DocSend, Dash, Replay, and Backup—but these are not separately reported segments [36](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P24413585)[7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P44343642)[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P64649008).
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## Company history

Dropbox was founded in June 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. The service launched publicly in September 2008, and the company announced that it had surpassed 100 million users in 2012. [39](https://aem.dropbox.com/cms/content/dam/dropbox/www/en-us/about/company-info/DBX_FactSheet.pdf)[40](https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/dropbox-launches-to-the-public)[41](https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/thanks-a-hundred-million)

The company expanded beyond file storage and syncing with Dropbox Business in 2013 and the launch of Dropbox Paper beta in 2015, which opened to public beta in 2016. Dropbox went public on Nasdaq in March 2018. [42](https://assets.dropbox.com/www/en-us/business/solutions/infrastructure-modernization/dropbox-data-storage-history.pdf)[43](https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product/paper-public-beta-and-mobile-apps)[44](https://investors.dropbox.com/investor-resources/investor-faq)

Dropbox acquired HelloSign in February 2019 and DocSend in March 2021, extending its offerings in electronic signatures and secure document sharing. Reclaim.ai joined Dropbox in August 2024. In May 2026, the company appointed Ashraf Alkarmi co-CEO alongside Houston, with Houston expected to transition to executive chairman and Alkarmi to become sole CEO. [45](https://investors.dropbox.com/news-releases/news-release-details/dropbox-completes-acquisition-hellosign)[46](https://investors.dropbox.com/news-releases/news-release-details/dropbox-completes-acquisition-docsend)[47](https://reclaim.ai/blog/dropbox-acquires-reclaim)[48](https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/dropbox-leadership-update)

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