# Drew Houston

> Drew Houston is a seed investor at Dropbox backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Dropbox](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dropbox)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/drewhouston
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/drewhouston
- Website: https://www.dropbox.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/houston

Drew Houston is a seed investor at Dropbox in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Drew Houston is co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Since founding the company in 2007 with Arash Ferdowsi, Drew has led the company’s growth from a simple idea to a service used by over 600 million people around the world. Drew received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006. After graduating, he turnedhis frustration with carrying USB drives and emailing files to himself into a demo for what became Dropbox. Today, Dropbox is one of the world's leading business collaboration platforms, with 15 million paying subscribers and nearly 3000 employees across 12 global offices.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$6.1M |
| Series A | $9.4M–$24M |
| Series B | $10M–$116M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 24% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 20% |
| Internet | 7 | 17% |
| SaaS | 6 | 15% |
| FinTech | 5 | 12% |

79 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 34% |
| Series A | 13 | 32% |
| Series B | 7 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 7% |
| Angel | 2 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Warp | Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees. | $60M | Series B | Jun 25, 2026 |  |
| Payam Music | Payam Music is a provider of piano education services intended to serve students seeking intuitive and engaging music instruction. |  |  | May 26, 2026 |  |
| Convex | Convex is a serverless infrastructure company. It was founded in 2020 by James Cowling, Jamie Turner, and Sujay Jayakar. | $24M | Series A | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| Blueprint Bryan Johnson | Blueprint is Bryan Johnson’s protocol made accessible to everyone. Everything from measurements to protocols and therapies. | $60M | Angel | Oct 28, 2025 |  |
| Warp | Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees. | $18M | Series A | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Cartwheel | Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Type animate characters for video, game, app, ad, social, AR, or VR projects simply. It builds to help tell stories faster, and more creatively. | $5.6M | Seed | Jun 05, 2024 |  |
| Lamini | PowerML creates a robust language model engine crafted to construct and possess large language models utilizing their data.Through reinforcement learning from human feedback and fine-tuning their data, the company aids engineering teams in surpassing general-purpose large language models. This empowers clients to enhance their AI applications byleveraging their data with cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology. |  | Seed | May 02, 2024 |  |
| Lamini | PowerML creates a robust language model engine crafted to construct and possess large language models utilizing their data.Through reinforcement learning from human feedback and fine-tuning their data, the company aids engineering teams in surpassing general-purpose large language models. This empowers clients to enhance their AI applications byleveraging their data with cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology. | $25M | Series A | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| Slope | Slope is a financial platform developer which offers a variety of payment alternatives while being paid promptly. The platform of the company provides clients with options and manages loans, underwriting, debt collection, and payout once the goods or service have been shipped, allowing businesses to pay in installments at checkout. | $30M |  | Sep 27, 2023 |  |
| Mother Science | Mother Science is a revolutionary biotech beauty brand company develops next-generation skincare treatments. | $6.2M | Seed | Nov 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Caffeinated Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caffeinated-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Initialized Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/initialized-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sound Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sound-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Dropbox

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Dropbox provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions. It aims to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working. 500 million registered users around the world use Dropbox to work the way they want, on any device, wherever they go.Founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, Dropboxis headquartered in San Francisco, California. Moreover, the company has more than 12 offices around the world, with locations in San Francisco, Austin, Dublin, Herzliya, London, New York, Paris, Seattle, Sydney, Hamburg, Washington DC, and Tokyo.

5 contacts available at Dropbox.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Drew Houston | Co-founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drew-houston |
| Arash Ferdowsi | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arash-ferdowsi |
| Daniel Liem | Product Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-liem |
| Hiten Shah | Product & Growth | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiten-shah |
| Jamie Perlman | VP Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jamie-perlman |

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## FAQ

### What does Drew Houston invest in?

Drew Houston invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Drew Houston's check size?

Drew Houston typically joins rounds of $2M–$6.1M at Seed, $9.4M–$24M at Series A and $10M–$116M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Drew Houston participates in.

### When did Drew Houston last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Drew Houston closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 41 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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