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Dropbox Agrees to Buy AI Storage Startup Tigris Data for $350M, Its Biggest Acquisition Since 2007

Summary

Dropbox will pay $350M for Tigris Data, a startup building distributed storage for AI workloads across multiple clouds and previously backed with roughly $32M from Spark and a16z. Tigris will power Dropbox's new DBX Agent Cloud platform, which offers object storage for AI developers. CBO Eric Webster said Tigris brings a production-ready product and existing relationships with AI developers.