Box, an enterprise cloud company backed by strategic investors SAP Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of the Germany-based technology company, and Salesforce.com, the US-based software as a service company, opened its international headquarters, after more than 50% of its traffic among its more than 11 million users has come from outside the US. Box’s chief executive Aaron Levie is pictured.
The Box European headquarters is located in central London, and it plans to hire 100 employees across Europe by the end of 2013.
Box’s Greg Strickland will take on the role of iinternational general manager and vice president of olobal operations, heading up the London office. Strickland was Box’s vice president of business operations for the past four years.
The company has tripled enterprise revenue every year since it was founded in 2005, and it has raised $162m in venture capital.
The company is also backed by venture firms Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, NEA, Scale Venture Partners, and US Venture Partners.