Dropbox valued at $8B ahead of high-profile IPO, filing says

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Dropbox, the provider of a cloud-based platform that enables users to store and share content, said in a new S-1 filing that it plans to sell 36 million Class A shares at $16 to $18 apiece.

According to a Bloomberg calculation, the transaction would value Dropbox at US$7.1 billion, less than its US$10 billion value during a prior private capital raising effort in 2014.

Monday's SEC filing, which also mentioned the sale of $100 million in stock to the venture capital division of Salesforce.com, begins a period in which bankers and Dropbox executives will market shares.

Dropbox Inc.is offering to sell about 26.82 million shares of Class A common stock in initial public offering. The company's revenue was $603.8 million, $844.8 million, and $1,106.8 million in 2015, 2016, and 2017, respectively, representing an annual growth rate of 40% and 31%, respectively. The two companies also announced a significant integration pact that would link both of their platforms closer together for joint customers - primary integrations would centre around creating two-way access between Salesforce products: Commerce Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Quip and Dropbox itself.

The pair started Dropbox in 2007.

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Dropbox company has touted its business as a path to unleashing creative energy and inspired work.

According to Nasdaq, there has been a major rise in what it calls "decacorn" companies, or firms valued at more than $10bn moving up the ranks. Investors are sure to have questions for the file-sharing technology leader as it embarks on its marketing roadshow.

The company had 11 million paying users and over 500 million registered users on December 31, 2017-just over 2% of its registered users pay Dropbox for the service. In the same period, the company's net losses dropped by almost $100 million. While it claims to have 500 million users in 180 countries, it posted only 11 million paying clients at the end of a year ago.

Goldman Sachs & Co, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank Securities, BofA Merrill Lynch are the lead underwriters for the public offer.

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