A team from Dropbox, a California-based cloud service, was the special guest during a recent tech startup community gathering organized by incubation and investment firm Kickstart Ventures, Inc. Dropbox simplifies the work and personal lives of millions of people by letting them bring their documents, photos, and videos anywhere and share them easily.
“We were happy to have Dropbox at our monthly #raidthefridge gathering. It gave our portfolio companies an opportunity to learn from them. Their success as a startup company serves as an inspiration to local startups which also dream of making it internationally,” said Christian Besler, Kickstart Vice President and Head of Community Engagement.
Dropbox offers cloud storage, file synchronization, and client software, thus, anything placed in a Dropbox folder can be retrieved from any computer, phone, or tablet.
Founded in 2007, Dropbox is one of the most popular startups funded by Y Combinator, a top American startup incubator and accelerator. Y Combinator is also for the first time supporting a Filipino tech startup firm, Kalibrr, one of 17 Kickstart portfolio companies.
“We always want to learn about Dropbox users everywhere. This whole country is adopting technology at a crazy pace, making it a very interesting market. We know a lot about Silicon Valley and are excited to learn more about Southeast Asia,” said Emily Zhao, Dropbox Project Manager on Internationalisation.
She added: “We love the Philippine startup scene. Everybody we have talked to so far has been so curious and excited and I think (the startup scene) is really thriving.” Zhao was accompanied by other project managers namely Daniel Kluesing, Emily Zhao, Joshua Kaplan, and David Mann when they visited Kickstart’s incubation space and met with some of the local startups.
The team exchanged ideas with startup founders as well as shared various Dropbox tools which could be beneficial to a growing company.
IN PHOTO: Christian Besler, Kickstart VP & Head of Community Engagement (2nd from right) with project managers from Dropbox namely (from L-R) Daniel Kluesing, Emily Zhao, Joshua Kaplan, and David Mann.
