Dropbox has successfully raised US$350m in a funding round that values the cloud storage player at an estimated US$10bn, recent reports say.
This is more than double the last valuation of US$4bn, when Dropbox raised funding in 2011.
Key investors in the latest round are BlackRock, Fidelity and T. Rowe Price.
The company has so far raised more than US$257m in total.
Y Combinator originally seeded Dropbox, with follow-on seed funding of US$1.2m from Sequoia Capital and Pejman Nozad.
A US$6m funding round followed in 2008, led by Sequoia and Accel Partners.
A US$250m funding round last year saw U2 rockers Bono and the Edge join Sequoia, Accel Goldman Sachs and a consortium of veteran Silicon Valley investors, including Greylock Partners and Benchmark, as investors in Dropbox.
Even though Dropbox has raised the US$350m, it is not clear what it plans to do with the funding or if it actually needs it in a hurry.
At the Dublin Web Summit in October, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston said, “Even when we raised US$250m we haven’t spent it – we were already profitable. We don’t need capital so we have the flexibility. It certainly helps in terms of currency and makes it easier to acquire companies.”
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