Peter J. Levine is an American software executive and venture capitalist.[1]
Peter Levine | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Boston University |
| Occupation | Venture Capitalist |
| Employer | General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz |
Early life
editLevine 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
editFrom 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
editA 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.