SAN FRANCISCO -- They are polar opposites, but two of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups share similar names, market, adversaries and ambitions — perhaps with wishful eyes on going public next year.

Founded in 2005, Y Combinator is one of the most influential early-stage tech investors. YC has helped to launch highly-valued companies including Airbnb, Stripe, Instacart and Coinbase. Dropbox was ...

Dropbox’s core product lies in digital file sharing. But if its reported acquisition of peer-to-peer music start-up Audiogalaxy signals anything, the Inc. 30 Under 30 alum may also see a future in ...

Cloud-storage giant Dropbox has just bought another start-up, with the Israeli mobile productivity app provider CloudOn the latest to join the fold. The purchase adds to Dropbox’s acquisition strategy ...

A decade ago, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston learned a valuable lesson about the importance of mental health. It was 2015, a challenging time for the startup. Morale was low, he said, so low that even the ...

Back in June, Dropbox debuted a preview version of the “new Dropbox.” Built around a standalone app interface and focused on integrating all of your work tools (your Slack, G Suite, Zoom calls, etc.) ...

With a valuation several times higher than rival Box and mounting competition from Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet, Dropbox’s $10 billion valuation doesn’t appear to hold water. Turns out, the detractors ...

If you're a fan of file syncing service Dropbox, you probably open its auto-saving folder as often as your Pictures or Music. Why not add it to your Start Menu? It's fairly easy to pull off with a few ...

“The whole start-up world is sort of like climbing Mount Doom,” said Drew Houston, CEO and co-founder of the file hosting service Dropbox, to a packed NVIDIA Auditorium on Wednesday afternoon. “You ...

Dropbox has made its first acquisition, landing Cove, a start-up from two of Facebook’s first engineers. The husband-and-wife team of Aditya Agarwal and Ruchi Sanghvi will play key roles at the San ...