Drop.io
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| Available in | English |
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| Headquarters | Brooklyn, NYC |
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| Industry | Technology |
| Slogan(s) | Simple, private sharing. |
| Website | drop.io |
| Launched | November 6, 2007 |
Drop.io was an online file sharing service. It allowed users to quickly create "drops", which could contain files of any type, and could be accessed via the internet, e-mail, phone, fax, and widgets. The service did not require users to sign up for an account, and each drop was private unless the creator chose to share it. Drop.io was named one of TIME Magazine's 50 Best Websites of 2009, and CNET Webware 100.
On October 29, 2010, Drop.io announced that the company had been purchased by Facebook and that the service would be shutting down. Sam Lessin, one of the site's founders, would be moving to Facebook. As of 15 December 2010[update], the site is no longer active; the blog is also down, as of November 2011.
Drop.io was founded by Sam Lessin and Darshan Somashekar in August 2007. The company's offices were originally located in Manhattan, New York City; it moved to the "DUMBO" neighborhood of Brooklyn in 2008.
In November 2007, Drop.io completed a $1.2 million Series A round of financing led by RRE Ventures to support the company's development efforts and infrastructure growth. In March 2008, the company closed $2.7 million in series A-1 financing led by New York venture capital firms DFJ Gotham and RRE Ventures.
Drop.io was nominated for the Technical Achievement Award at the South By Southwest 11th Annual Web Awards in 2007.
On June 10, Drop.io and Scribd, announced a partnership to offer rich conversion and viewing within private "drops", in an attempt to make it easier for people to share private information online. As of 2008, users can find Drop.io on a number of social networking sites, including: Facebook and Twitter.
Between March 2007 and November 2008, drop.io released a series of feature improvements to their platform including 'inputs' and 'outputs' via various interfaces like phone and fax, a Twitter 'subscription' mode, and a Firefox plugin that allows users to 'drag and drop' files into new or existing 'drops'
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