Howard Morgan is a rare venture capitalist who co-founded Renaissance Technologies (widely regarded as the best-performing investment firm ever), then co-founded First Round Capital as one of the first institutional seed funds, and now chairs B Capital—spanning quantitative finance, seed investing, and global growth investing. He also brought ARPAnet to Philadelphia in 1974 as a computer science professor and has taken companies from seed through IPO as a hands-on operator at Idealab, giving him unusually deep experience across both academia and company building. Howard Morgan is a rare venture capitalist who co-founded Renaissance Technologies (widely regarded as the best-performing investment firm ever), then co-founded First Round Capital as one of the first institutional seed funds, and now chairs B Capital—spanning quantitative finance, seed investing, and global growth investing. He also brought ARPAnet to Philadelphia in 1974 as a computer science professor and has taken companies from seed through IPO as a hands-on operator at Idealab, giving him unusually deep experience across both academia and company building.