Box, Inc.
Headquarters
Redwood City, CAFounded
2005CEO / Founder
Aaron LevieEmployees
1001-5000Funding
PublicStock
NYSE: BOXProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
8.1/10Website
www.box.com
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About Box, Inc.
Box, Inc. is an enterprise cloud content management company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith as Box.net, the company provides a platform for storing, sharing, securing, and governing business content across devices and applications. Levie has served as chief executive officer since the company's founding.
The company's platform, marketed as the Intelligent Content Cloud, includes Box Drive for desktop access, Box Sign for e-signatures, Box Shield for threat detection and data-loss prevention, Box Relay for workflow automation, and Box AI for applying large language models to stored content. Box sells primarily to large enterprises, including customers in regulated industries such as financial services, life sciences, and government, and reported revenue of $1.09 billion for fiscal year 2024.
Box raised roughly $500 million in venture funding from investors including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, along with an early seed check from Mark Cuban, before listing on the New York Stock Exchange on January 23, 2015 under the ticker BOX. KKR invested $500 million in the company in April 2021. Acquisitions include e-signature provider SignRequest for $55 million in 2021, content management application maker Crooze in January 2024, and intelligent document processing company Alphamoon in August 2024. The company employs several thousand people worldwide.
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Competitive Landscape
Who Box, Inc. competes with, and how they differ.
Box's closest peer: both pivoted from consumer file-sync roots to enterprise platforms, but Dropbox still leans on individual/team file-sync and its own e-signature (HelloSign) and AI search, while Box concentrates on large-enterprise content governance, regulated-industry compliance (HIPAA, FedRAMP) and workflow automation (Box Relay/Automate).
Microsoft bundles OneDrive and SharePoint content storage directly into Microsoft 365 alongside Teams, giving it default-install distribution that has pressured Box's cloud-collaboration positioning industry-wide; Box competes as a neutral, best-of-breed content layer that plugs into Microsoft, Google and Salesforce stacks rather than replacing them.
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Google Workspace bundles Drive and Docs storage with real-time co-editing into a lower per-seat productivity suite aimed at broad SMB-to-enterprise adoption, whereas Box is unbundled, storage-agnostic middleware sold on compliance and governance depth rather than an all-in-one office suite.
6 products reviewed on TopReviewedA privately held, narrower rival that markets itself directly against Box: Egnyte focuses specifically on hybrid cloud/on-premises content governance and compliance for regulated industries, closer to Box's original enterprise content-management niche than the Big Tech suite bundlers, though far smaller in scale and public profile.
Company Timeline
Key milestones in Box, Inc.'s history, with sources.
- Launch
Box launches Box Automate for agentic workflow automation
Box released Box Automate, a native workflow-automation product that routes work across AI agents, humans and Box tools (Box Agent, Extract, Forms, Doc Gen, Sign) with a drag-and-drop builder; full capability is gated to Enterprise Advanced plans.
support.box.com - Acquisition
Box acquires Alphamoon, a Polish intelligent-document-processing startup
Box bought Alphamoon (founded 2017, Poland) to add intelligent document processing -- extracting structured metadata from contracts, invoices and other documents -- into the Box AI platform. Purchase price was not disclosed.
techcrunch.com - Acquisition
Box acquires Crooze, a no-code enterprise content management app builder
Box acquired Crooze to add a no-code app builder and metadata tooling for contract lifecycle management, digital asset management and controlled-document management on top of the Box platform. Terms were not disclosed.
boxinvestorrelations.com - Launch
Box announces Box Hubs at BoxWorks
Box unveiled Box Hubs, AI-integrated content portals letting teams organize, curate and publish curated collections of existing files without moving them, announced at the BoxWorks user conference for beta launch in early 2024.
siliconangle.com - Launch
Box launches Box AI, embedding generative AI into the Content Cloud
Box announced Box AI at its Content Cloud Summit, integrating OpenAI models to let enterprise users ask natural-language questions about documents and generate new content, governed by Box's existing permissions.
siliconangle.com - Funding
KKR agrees to invest $500 million in Box via convertible preferred stock
Box agreed to a $500 million strategic investment from KKR in the form of convertible preferred stock, funding a share-repurchase auction; co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie stepped down as board chair (to independent director Bethany Mayer) as part of the deal, following two years of pressure from activist investor Starboard Value.
cnbc.com - Acquisition
Box announces intent to acquire SignRequest
Box agreed to acquire Amsterdam-based e-signature startup SignRequest for approximately $55 million (~EUR 45.6M); the deal underpinned the summer-2021 launch of Box's native e-signature product, Box Sign.
siliconcanals.com - Milestone
Starboard Value discloses 7.5% activist stake in Box
Activist hedge fund Starboard Value disclosed a 7.5% stake in Box, beginning a multi-year activist campaign over the company's valuation and strategy that included a push to remove CEO Aaron Levie and a reported (but unconsummated) exploration of a sale process in 2021.
cnbc.com - Milestone
Box IPOs on the NYSE under ticker BOX
Box priced its IPO at $14 per share -- above its $11-$13 range -- raising about $175 million at an approximate $1.67 billion valuation, and began trading on the NYSE as BOX.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Box raises $150 million from TPG Growth and Coatue Management
Ahead of its IPO, Box announced a $150 million investment from TPG Growth and Coatue Management, with TPG Growth gaining a board seat; deal terms and valuation were not disclosed.
boxinvestorrelations.com - Funding
Box raises $125 million growth round led by General Atlantic
Box closed a $125 million round led by General Atlantic (whose operating partner Gary Reiner joined the board), with Bessemer Venture Partners, DFJ Growth, NEA, SAP Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Social Capital also participating; the round followed an earlier $81 million raise from Salesforce and SAP in October 2011 at a reported valuation above $600 million, and brought Box's total raised past $280 million.
techcrunch.com - Founded
Box founded by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith
Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith founded Box (originally Box.net) in 2005 while Levie was a University of Southern California student; Mark Cuban provided $350,000 in early seed funding. The company later pivoted from a consumer file-storage product to an enterprise cloud content management platform.
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