After the auction, Dropbox is close to the choice of investors — Round put in $ 10 billion

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We are known for a week now, Dropbox has been talking to investors about the new mega round of financing. The company, which just raised $ 7.2 million in seed and series a round in 2007, aspires to something between $ 200 million and $ 300 million, we have heard. But now we know a little more. And we have heard something from one source, which is nothing short of shocking.

Dropbox auction last week, during which investors made their requests to participate in the new round, numerous sources tell us. This week, Dropbox, met with the VCs who bets and collect term sheets. All they have to make that decision now.

Here's the really crazy stuff: one of the proposals under consideration could push the Dropbox score post-money $ 10 billion , one source tells us. Another source said that was inaccurate and considered the final evaluation will settle towards the bottom of the value of $ 5 to $ 10 billion we reported last month.

Score from 10 billion dollars would be amazing for a number of reasons. But consider this: Pandora and LinkedIn, two companies recently became public, have market caps of $ 2.16 billion and $ 8.63 billion, respectively. Yes, start with just 65 staff members may be worth more money on paper than these two public darlings.

Also consider: Yahoo has a Capitalization of $ 15 billion. And our parents, AOL, capitalization of only $ 1.72 billion.

Dropbox has 25 million users (many of whom are paying) downloading files 200 million a day.

More to come soon.

Dropbox was founded in 2007, Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Frustrated when working with multiple computers, drew was inspired to create a service that will bring people ...

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