Dropbox Opens First NYC Office To Strengthen Sales And Engineering

Dropbox’s business software is ready for a big sales push as it bounds towards an anticipated IPO, so today it announced the opening of a sales and engineering office in New York City. In its first place on the East Coast, the cloud storage startup developed at MIT will house 10 sales people and two to three engineers in a temporary space near NYU before growing into a permanent spot.

VP of Engineering Aditya Agarwal tells me that after “gutting Dropbox from the ground up to support two parallel Dropboxes, we got good feedback from early customers. We know we have a lot of customers out on the East Coast and especially in NYC, so we’re sending a sales team to New York. But at the same time we also realize NYC is, after SF and on par with Seattle, the biggest pool of engineering talent. We’re hoping to grow rapidly over the next 12 months or so.”

Now with an IPO on the horizon, $350 million in new funding, and over 200 million users, it needs to turn that hard work into revenue. The company said that the NYC sales team will do direct sales and onboarding assistance for Dropbox For Business, targeting small to medium businesses, mid-size companies, and enterprises.

Until now Dropbox had its main San Francisco headquarters, around 40 people in Dublin, an Austin, Texas, office with 30 employees that plans to expand to 200, and a new unopened satellite office in SF that could house spillover from its current China Basin setup.