. >> my name is aaron smith.cial worker at youth uprising and what we do at the health and wellness team is we support youth in their mission to achieve personal transformations, which contributes to the overall goals and vision of youth uprising. >> hi, my name is summer clark and i'm a youth employee here at youth uprising and i grew up in this community and it's great to have a group like this that gives back to the youth. >> thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> we are talking about youth and giving them a vision and that's something that you are passionate about. can you give us a little background on youth uprising? we saw some things there, but how it came about and how you decided it was going to be your contribution at the next level. >> we took five years to plan it. we went through a developmental phase. we looked at the door and we came back and had an honest conversation about the needs in oakland were and we engage in people deeply and paid them to be a part of the desi

aaron levie is always on the move. his story is a familiar one in silicon valley. >> i co-founded box in 2005 with my co-founder dillon smith. we were just in our dorms and we built the application. today we now have 135 employees, over five million users. >> reporter: levie and smith turned their dorm room dream into a fast growing start-up called box.net-- a cloud computing company. its software lets businesses share and manage documents online, or in the cloud. levie says $30 million dollars in venture capital funding helped the company get off the ground and grow fast. >> we see venture capital as really helping fund the innovation that we're doing. certainly the innovation that is happening in silicon valley. it's a critical part of the ecosystem for building the future of technology. >> reporter: while no where near the record high of almost $100 billion dollars invested during the dot com boom... vc firms spent almost $22- billion last year. that's up 20-percent over the previous year and it marks the first rise in annual spending since 2007. the national venture capital association expects about a 10% rise this year