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After starting as a college business project in 2005, Box was officially launched in March of 2006 with the vision of connecting people, devices and networks. Box provides more than 8 million users with secure cloud content management and collaboration. They say their platform “allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any format from anywhere”.

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  Box acquired Folders. (5/23/13)
  Posted 5/23/13 at 7:29pm via techcrunch.com
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  Box acquired Crocodoc. (5/9/13)
  Posted 5/11/13 at 2:22am via freshnews.com
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  Box received in Venture Round funding. (10/3/12)
  Posted 10/3/12 at 3:05am via finsmes.com
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  Box added Carey Lai as Investor. (10/1/12)
  Posted 2/12/13 at 12:26pm
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  Box received $125M in Venture Round funding. (7/31/12)
  Posted 7/31/12 at 6:45pm via techcrunch.com
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  Box received $81M in Series D funding. (10/28/11)
  Posted 8/16/11 at 6:17pm via techcrunch.com
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  Box added Arthur van Hoff as Advisor. (9/1/11)
  Posted 2/2/13 at 10:11am
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  Box — A week after landing a $48 million round of venture capital, Box.net started hiring in Boston. (3/3/11)
  Posted 3/3/11 at 8:34am via masshightech.com
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  Box received $48M in Series D funding. (2/24/11)
  Posted 2/24/11 at 8:07pm via techcrunch.com
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  Box — BOX.NET PARTNERS WITH PING IDENTITY TO BRING SINGLE SIGN-ON AND SCALABLE USER MANAGEMENT TO ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS (2/9/11)
  Posted 2/3/11 at 1:17am via freshnews.com
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  Box added Dan Levin as COO. (8/1/10)
  Posted 8/30/10 at 10:12am
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  Box — Box.net named in Lead411's Hottest Silicon Valley Companies list (5/25/10)
  Posted 7/8/10 at 10:22am via lead411.com
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  Box received $15M in Series C funding. (4/7/10)
  Posted 4/7/10 at 1:56pm via techcrunch.com
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  Box added Rory O'Driscoll as Board. (3/1/10)
  Posted 7/26/12 at 3:02pm
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  Box received $7.1M in Venture Round funding. (10/15/09)
  Posted 10/6/09 at 9:44am via paidcontent.org
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  Box added Jeff Seibert as Engineering Manager. (9/1/09)
  Posted 2/3/13 at 11:43am

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Above: Box Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 1/20/10

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Box

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Website	box.com
Blog	blog.box.com
Stage	Live
Launch Date	July 17, 2007
Tags	file-sharing, backup, file-storage, egnyte

Founded in 2005, Box.net provides Cloud Content Management for over 4 million users and companies ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Box.net’s dynamic, flexible content management and collaboration solution empowers users to access and share content online, and gives IT professionals unprecedented visibility into how content moves within their organizations and beyond.

The Box platform enhances productivity and collaboration with flexible workflow, full-text search, organic content discovery and trackable sharing at a significantly lower cost than traditional enterprise software services, and connects users to other best-of-breed cloud solutions - such as Salesforce.com and Google Apps - through its OpenBox platform.

There are a few different pricing options available: Personal (starting at 5GB free), Business and Enterprise - more info at http://www.box.net/pricing

Above: Box Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 9/16/09

Above: Box UI
Uploaded: 11/16/10

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1. Box Buys French File Storage App Folders To Help Rebuild Its Mobile Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. BOX ACQUIRING CROCODOC TO REIMAGINE DOCUMENTS IN THE CLOUD (freshnews.com) [edit]
3. techcrunch.com [edit]
4. box.net [edit]
5. PR Web (prweb.com) [edit]
6. Box.net Adds $7.1 Million In Funding For Digital File Storage (paidcontent.org) [edit]
7. Box.net Raises $15 Million To Take On Microsoft SharePoint In The Cloud (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Enterprise Cloud Storage Platform Box.net Raises $48M From Andreessen Horowitz And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Cloud Storage Platform Box.net Raises $81M From Salesforce, SAP At $600M-Plus Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Box Raises $125M To Target Global Growth And Large Enterprises, Round Led By General Atlantic (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Box Receives Investment from Intel Capital (finsmes.com) [edit]
File Comments, Box Enterprise, and Twitter, and more! [edit]
LEAD411 LAUNCHES "HOTTEST SILICON VALLEY COMPANIES" AWARDS (lead411.com) [edit]
BOX.NET PARTNERS WITH PING IDENTITY TO BRING SINGLE SIGN-ON AND SCALABLE USER MANAGEMENT TO ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS (freshnews.com) [edit]
Box.net lands in Boston with $48M to burn (masshightech.com) [edit]