Ben Black

Maveron LLC (Maveron ) is a venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Howard Schultz and Dan Levitan. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Corsearch, Inc. provides clearance and protection solutions for trademark and brand professionals. It offers trademark screening, searching and watching, online brand protection, and domain name services. The company was founded by Ari J. Master and Graham MacRobie in 1949 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Latham & Watkins LLP operates as a full-service law firm or legal matters. It offers services in the areas of finance, litigation, accounting, banking, life sciences, private equity, real estate, government relations, employment law, and outsourcing. The company was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

OnRequest Images is the leading provider of powerful, custom imagery and photo production services for the Global 2000. Having the world's largest photo production services network enables its clients to utilize the best fully vetted resources the world has to offer, including photographers, stylists, locations and crews. Combined with OnPro, its collaborative workflow system which underpins every detail of a production, OnRequest Images delivers brand-aligned, cost effective, fast photography solutions for marketers, brand leaders and creative teams. The company has the talent, tenacity and technology to make things happen even on the grandest scale. OnRequest Images is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices in New York, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, London, Paris, and Barcelona.

Nielsen Consumer Insights, Inc. provides market research services. It conducts its market research and polling primarily through an Internet panel consisting of millions of people from around the world. The company was founded by Dr. Gordon S. Black in 1975 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

New Cycle Capital LLC (New Cycle Capital) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Ben Black and Josh Becker. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

People Power Co. engages in the provision of smart home application. It focuses on its Presence product. It specializes in AI-powered solutions for residential telehomecare, safety and security, and energy management. The company was founded by Gene Wang and David Moss in 2009 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

CloudCrowd is the next evolution in business process outsourcing. The company uses the Internet to tap into vast underutilized pools of talent, labor, and creativity to get work done, and has completed more than 1,500,000 tasks. CloudCrowd helps companies reduce overhead, increase efficiency, and lower costs by breaking large projects into smaller tasks, and distributing them to tens of thousands of workers via a proprietary online platform that brings work and workers together. CloudCrowd offers individual's new ways to make money, achieve recognition, and fit work into busy schedules. The company was named to the 'Brilliant 100' in 2010-- Entrepreneur Magazine's list of the most brilliant companies of the year.

Core Innovation Capital (Core Innovation) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Arjan Schutte. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.