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Box
Cybersecurity · Redwood City, United States · Founded 2005 · IPO 2015 Unicorn
Provides secure cloud content management and collaboration platform
Box mafia
Startups founded by Box alumni
Former Box employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Quentin de MetzFrance
Ritik MalhotraUnited States
Mamoon HamidUnited States
Marco del CarmenUnited States
Emily BrockwayUnited States
Eric (Yuan) ChengUnited States
Jeff SeibertUnited States
Faris Ali MohiuddinUnited States
Arthur Van HoffUnited States
Steve AbrahamPhilippinesGlobal footprint
Where Box has talent and traffic
(27 of 4,201 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$97M patent portfolio · 236 active families
Where Box concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Box and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Box's 16 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Box appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2009–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
16 deals across Box's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Box deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Box's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Box
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Box on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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