Peter J. Levine
Peter Levine | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Boston University |
| Occupation | Venture Capitalist |
| Employer | General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz |
Peter J. Levine is an American software executive and venture capitalist.[1]
Early life
[edit]Levine grew up in Northeastern USA. While attending summer camp in the Adirondack Mountains, he gained a lifelong passion for leadership and the outdoors. Levine earned a BS in engineering from Boston University in 1983, and worked as a software engineer on Project Athena at MIT, while attending the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1988 and 1989.
Business career
[edit]From 1990 through 2001 he was an early employee of Veritas Software, beginning his career as a software engineer and ending as an executive vice president. Levine was a general partner at Mayfield Fund from 2002 through 2005, prior to becoming president and CEO of Xensource in February 2006.[2] After working to grow the company's business, Xensource was acquired by Citrix in 2007 for $500 million, with Levine being named a vice president of Citrix.[3]
Levine taught marketing and sales at the Sloan School of Management in 2010 and 2011, and at the Stanford Graduate School of Business starting in 2012.[4] In March 2011, Levine became a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, leading the firm's investments in enterprise software including data center technology, enterprise applications and mobile computing.[5] Levine has led the firm's investments at GitHub[6] (acquired by MSFT in 2018 for $7.5B[7]), Figma[8] (Announced acquisition of $20B by Adobe[9]), DigitalOcean (DOCN, IPO 2021),[10] Mixpanel,[11] ShieldAI,[12] Apollo GraphQL,[13] PlanetScale,[14][15] and a number of other software companies. He became a member of the board of trustees of the National Outdoor Leadership School in 2013 for a term through 2019.[16]
Philanthropy
[edit]A lifelong mountain climber, Levine has scaled some major worldwide routes, while using his passion for the environment and education to support many institutions, including Stanford University Development; Boston University; MIT; NOLS; The Adirondack Scholarship Foundation; and the Levine Impact Lab, which supports the growth and management of environmentally focused nonprofits.[17]
References
[edit]- ^ "Peter Levine". a16z.com.
- ^ Ashlee Vance (February 15, 2006). "XenSource clears mind of CEO". The Register. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
- ^ Ashlee Vance (August 15, 2007). "Citrix breaks the bank to get XenSource". The Register. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
- ^ "Peter Levine". Stanford Graduate School of Business.
- ^ Connie Loizos (March 21, 2011). "Andreessen Horowitz Brings Aboard a Face Familiar to the Venture Industry". The PE Hub Network. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
- ^ "GitHub". 9 July 2012.
- ^ "Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion" (Press release). Microsoft. 4 June 2018.
- ^ "Figma raises $50 million Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz". Techcrunch. 30 April 2020.
- ^ "Adobe's Figma acquisition is a $20 billion bet to control the entire creative market". The Verge. 17 September 2022.
- ^ "DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M from Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS". Techcrunch. 6 March 2014.
- ^ "Mixpanel raises $10.25 million". San Francisco Business Times. May 11, 2012.
- ^ "Shield AI adds Peter Levine to its Board along with raising $10.5m Series a funding led by Andreessen Horowitz". talent4boards.com.
- ^ "Apollo Careers | Team | Meet the people behind Apollo". Apollo GraphQL.
- ^ "For the Love of Sharding". Medium. 23 May 2019.
- ^ "PlanetScale". a16z.com. 23 May 2019.
- ^ "Peter J. Levine". Board of Trustees profile. National Outdoor Leadership School. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ^ "Levine Impact Lab". Levine Impact Lab.