Everybody knows it. Tom Brady knows it (when he was racking up Lombardi Trophies in Boston, he was getting his mail here). Mark Zuckerberg may have said he’d rather start Facebook in Boston, but the reality of it is, he launched offices in New York City. Clemens, The Babe, and Boggs: they all know, too. [...]

NBA champion Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban likes early-stage startups. He doesn’t like the Miami Heat, who his Mavs will square off against when the league kicks its season on Dec. 25. And, from the sound of it, he still doesn’t much care for Box.net’s prospects, either. I caught up with Cuban after his keynote [...]

In an effort to boost its developer community, cloud storage provider Box.net has set up a $2 million fund to back future enterprise applications built on the Box platform. As part of the development fund, Box has also announced a new developer’s program called Box Innovation Network (also called /bin, which was named in a [...]

Box.net is going public! Probably. Not soon, though, said Aaron Levie, the startup’s CEO. “It is part of the plan,” he acknowledged, when I had the opportunity to catch up with him in New York City during a visit (or, more like, whirlwind tour). He’ll be here a bit more often, for events, and later, [...]

Decked out in black jeans, a purple shirt, black jacket and orange Puma tennis shoes, Box.net co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie lived up to his billing as a rising star in the tech world at today’s Venture Alpha conference in San Francisco. Interviewed by Alastair Goldfisher, acting editor of Thomson Reuters’ Venture Capital Journal, Levie [...]

Content-sharing site Box.net has wrapped up its Series D expansion round, having raised $81 million. As peHUB.com previously reported, Salesforce.com and New Enterprise Associates have joined the round, along with Bessemer Venture Partners and previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth. Box has now raised more $162 million in total capital. CEO and [...]

(Update: New Enterprise Associates will join in Box.net’s current round that it is raising, peHUB has learned. We’ll post more details when they become available.) While Box.net CEO Aaron Levie was on stage today at the company’s BoxWorks conference in San Francisco announcing new business partnerships with Okta, Motorola and SalesForce, among others, TechCrunch reported [...]

Most companies less than five years old would be happy to entertain an offer to sell for $500 million. But Box.net, which provides cloud content management and collaboration services, reportedly spurned an offer that size from a suitor earlier this summer. As reported earlier today by VentureBeat, Box reportedly turned down a $500 million acquisition [...]

Woodside, Calif.-based Equidity Inc. launches today as it unveils a new platform to help institutional investors hook up with pre-IPO and newly public companies. The organization plans to hold its inaugural investor forum in November. Equidity was founded by CEO Mona DeFrawi, who previously was CEO of Menlo Park, Calif.-based InsideVenture, which she founded in [...]

Earlier today, the Sand Hill Road venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced that it has raised an additional $200 million fund to invest in “growth stage” companies. With a marketing blitz that has become routine for the firm — beginning with a blog post — the firm disclosed that the new monies, raised from existing [...]