It is a founding principle of the gradual move to push relevant information to users rather than demanding they go and pull data.Ĭompanies like Dropbox, Salesforce & Box have massive volumes of data under their control. It’s at the core of the resurgence of interest and automation of Knowledge Management. So we can see Command E more as an added feature to the Dropbox platform rather than something that will replace the existing Search functionality within Dropbox.Įven so, this ability to add contextualization to work-related information is hot right now. But you have to be specific, and it will not know of the relationship between the item you are searching for and other related items. Spotlight on a Mac, for example, provides good traditional search and will pretty much find anything on your laptop you ask it. That’s something of a standard feature on any Microsoft or Apple laptop, but what Command E claims to do is to add context and relevance to your search query. Instead, it is a desktop search technology vendor that searches files on and in your desktop apps. What is important to note here is the Command E is not an enterprise search technology vendor in the mold of Sinequa or Coveo. Most except for HelloSign and DocSend, smaller startups bringing a small new team with some relevant IP under the Dropbox banner. Moreover, not a surprising one as Dropbox has made 27 acquisitions by our counting to date. So it’s another small tuck-in by Dropbox but maybe not an insignificant one. Though they did not disclose the financial details of the deal, Command E closed a round of seed funding in just May 2020, bringing their funding to $4.3m.
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Last week Dropbox to little fanfare announced that they had acquired San Francisco-based desktop search firm Command E.