Howard Morgan is the Chair and General Partner of B Capital and one of the pioneers of early-stage investing and the early internet. Howard co-founded First Round Capital, helped found Idealab and served as Founding President of Renaissance Technologies (a quantitative focused hedge fund).

Howard’s research on user interface technology and the optimization of computer networks was critical to bringing the ARPAnet to Philadelphia in the 1970s and helping corporations and government agencies of all sizes use technology to improve their efficiency. He has deep experience with very large databases and served as the first Editor of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems Journal.

Before moving into the business of technology, he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University and an Executive Fellow at UC Berkeley. Throughout his career, Howard has mentored a range of talented professionals, from PhD students to early-stage entrepreneurs, taking companies from seed stage through initial public offering.

He currently serves as a Director of Idealab and on the nonprofit boards of Cornell University, NY Public Library, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories and Math for America. A respected author and a frequent speaker at major industry conferences, he has also served on a number of public company boards, including Franklin Electronic Publishers and Internet Brands, Inc.

Howard received a PhD in Operations Research from Cornell University and a BS in Physics from City College of the City University of New York. He is based in New York.