Investments
43Portfolio Exits
19About Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box, which he originally created as a college business project with the goal of helping people easily access their information from any location. Box was launched from Aaron's dorm room in 2005 with the help of CFO Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind Box'unis product and platform strategy, which is focused on incorporating the best of traditional content management with the most effective elements of social business software. He has spoken about content and collaboration tools at events such as Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Web 2.0, Dreamforce, Accenture Global Summit, South by Southwest, and Svase.
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Latest Aaron Levie News
Sep 12, 2023
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky and Box’s Aaron Levie are among the CEOs whose 2022 compensation was closest to the median employee salary at their companies. As more states require companies to share information on salary transparency, the question of pay equity between executives and workers is being taken up by unions, shareholder activists, and researchers who question why CEO pay has ballooned in recent years.Read Full Story
Aaron Levie Investments
43 Investments
Aaron Levie has made 43 investments. Their latest investment was in Socket as part of their Series A on August 8, 2023.
Aaron Levie Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8/1/2023 | Series A | Socket | $20M | Yes | 2 | |
8/11/2022 | Series A | Superblocks | $37M | Yes | Aaron Levie, Akshay Kothari, Andrew Ofstad, Aneel Bhusri, Apoorva Mehta, Avlok Kohli, Frederic Kerrest, Greenoaks Capital Management, Howie Liu, James Tamplin, Javier Molina, Jeff Lawson, Jeremy Stoppeman, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Max Mullen, Meritech Capital Partners, Neha Narkhede, Sam Blond, Spark Capital, Taylor Brown, Tom Gonser, and Undisclosed Angel Investors | 5 |
1/26/2022 | Series A | Daffy Charitable Fund | $17.14M | Yes | Aaron Levie, Amy Chang, Coinbase Ventures, Dylan Field, John Lilly, Mike Schroepfer, Reid Hoffman, Ribbit Capital, Undisclosed Angel Investors, and XYZ Ventures | 7 |
5/5/2021 | Series A | |||||
4/15/2021 | Series B |
Date | 8/1/2023 | 8/11/2022 | 1/26/2022 | 5/5/2021 | 4/15/2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Series A | Series A | Series A | Series A | Series B |
Company | Socket | Superblocks | Daffy Charitable Fund | ||
Amount | $20M | $37M | $17.14M | ||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | Aaron Levie, Akshay Kothari, Andrew Ofstad, Aneel Bhusri, Apoorva Mehta, Avlok Kohli, Frederic Kerrest, Greenoaks Capital Management, Howie Liu, James Tamplin, Javier Molina, Jeff Lawson, Jeremy Stoppeman, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Max Mullen, Meritech Capital Partners, Neha Narkhede, Sam Blond, Spark Capital, Taylor Brown, Tom Gonser, and Undisclosed Angel Investors | Aaron Levie, Amy Chang, Coinbase Ventures, Dylan Field, John Lilly, Mike Schroepfer, Reid Hoffman, Ribbit Capital, Undisclosed Angel Investors, and XYZ Ventures | |||
Sources | 2 | 5 | 7 |
Aaron Levie Portfolio Exits
19 Portfolio Exits
Aaron Levie has 19 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Instacart on September 19, 2023.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
9/19/2023 | IPO | Public | 13 | ||
6/22/2023 | Acquired | 14 | |||
8/5/2022 | Acquired | 1 | |||
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