Peter J. Levine

Peter J. Levine is an American engineering executive and venture capitalist.[1]

Peter Levine
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBoston University
OccupationVenture Capitalist
EmployerGeneral Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Biography

Levine earned a BS in engineering from Boston University in 1983, and worked at Spectrum Software. He then worked as an engineer on Project Athena at MIT, and attended the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1988 and 1989. From 1990 through 2001 he was an early employee of Veritas Software, beginning his career as a software engineer and ending as a vice president.[2]

Levine was a general partner at Mayfield Fund from 2002 through 2005. Levine was also the CEO of Mendocino Software from incubation (at Mayfield) in 2003,[3] along with other former-Veritas executives Steve Colman and Jeffrey J. Rothschild.[4] After a third round of funding in 2007,[5] and licensing its software to a few customers, Mendocino shut down quietly by March 2008.[6][7]

Levine became president and CEO of Xensource in February, 2006.[8] After working to grow the faltering company's revenues, Xensource was acquired by Citrix in 2007 for $500 million, despite few revenues. Levine became a vice president of Citrix.[9]

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.[1] 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.[10] He serves on boards of directors including Bromium from 2011,[11] Actifio from 2011,[12] Mixpanel from 2012,[13] Udacity from 2012,[14] Onshape from 2015, and Alluxio since 2015.[15] He became a member of the board of trustees of the National Outdoor Leadership School in 2013 for a term through 2019.[16]

References
  1. "Peter Levine: Lecturer in Marketing". Faculty Profiles. Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  2. "About Peter Levine". Partner Bio. Andreessen Horowitz. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  3. "Form D: Notice of Sale of Securities" (PDF). June 24, 2004. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  4. "Mendocino Software raises $15 million". San Francisco Business Times. March 30, 2004. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  5. "Form D: Notice of Sale of Securities" (PDF). October 18, 2007. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  6. Jerome M. Wendt (February 11, 2008). ""No Comment" from HP; No Callback From Mendocino Software". DCIG blog. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  7. Dave Raffo (February 11, 2008). "Mendocino Software, R.I.P." Search Storage. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  8. Ashlee Vance (February 15, 2006). "XenSource clears mind of CEO". The Register. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  9. Ashlee Vance (August 15, 2007). "Citrix breaks the bank to get XenSource". The Register. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  10. Connie Loizos (March 21, 2011). "Andreessen Horowitz Brings Aboard a Face Familiar to the Venture Industry". The PE Hub Network. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  11. Pui-Wing Tam (March 21, 2011). "Andreessen Horowitz Bulks Up Further". The Wall Street Journal Digits blog. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  12. Robin Wauters (December 5, 2011). "Virtualization Data Management Startup Raises $33.5M From Andreessen Horowitz, Others". Tech Crunch. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
  13. Anthony Ha (May 10, 2012). "Mixpanel Raises $10.25M Led By Andreessen Horowitz, Now Provides Analytics For Viddy And Path". Tech Crunch. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  14. Sarah Perez (October 25, 2012). "Software Eats Education: With $15 Million In Series B Funding, Andreessen Horowitz Bets On Udacity". Tech Crunch. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  15. Connie Loizos (September 24, 2015). "Onshape Raises $80 Million Led By Andreessen Horowitz". Tech Crunch. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  16. "Peter J. Levine". Board of Trustees profile. National Outdoor Leadership School. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
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