Peter J. Levine

American venture capitalist

Peter Levine

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

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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

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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]

Peter Levine, 2022

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

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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

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1. ^ "Peter Levine". a16z.com.
2. ^ Ashlee Vance (February 15, 2006). "XenSource clears mind of CEO". The Register. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
3. ^ Ashlee Vance (August 15, 2007). "Citrix breaks the bank to get XenSource". The Register. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
4. ^ "Peter Levine". Stanford Graduate School of Business.
5. ^ Connie Loizos (March 21, 2011). "Andreessen Horowitz Brings Aboard a Face Familiar to the Venture Industry". The PE Hub Network. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
6. ^ "GitHub". 9 July 2012.
7. ^ "Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion" (Press release). Microsoft. 4 June 2018.
8. ^ "Figma raises $50 million Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz". Techcrunch. 30 April 2020.
9. ^ "Adobe's Figma acquisition is a $20 billion bet to control the entire creative market". The Verge. 17 September 2022.
10. ^ "DigitalOcean Raises $37.2M from Andreessen Horowitz to Take on AWS". Techcrunch. 6 March 2014.
11. ^ "Mixpanel raises $10.25 million". San Francisco Business Times. May 11, 2012.
12. ^ "Shield AI adds Peter Levine to its Board along with raising $10.5m Series a funding led by Andreessen Horowitz". talent4boards.com.
13. ^ "Apollo Careers | Team | Meet the people behind Apollo". Apollo GraphQL.
14. ^ "For the Love of Sharding". Medium. 23 May 2019.
15. ^ "PlanetScale". a16z.com. 23 May 2019.
16. ^ "Peter J. Levine". Board of Trustees profile. National Outdoor Leadership School. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
17. ^ "Levine Impact Lab". Levine Impact Lab.

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Andreessen Horowitz

Founders|

* Marc Andreessen (co-founder)
* Ben Horowitz (co-founder)

Selected general partners|

* John O'Farrell
* Scott Weiss
* Jeff Jordan
* Peter J. Levine
* Chris Dixon
* Vijay S. Pande
* Martin Casado

Selected investments|

* Airbnb
* Foursquare
* Groupon
* Lytro
* Twitter, Inc.
* ThirdLove

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