Howard Morgan is Chair and General Partner at B Capital and a pioneer of early-stage investing. He co-founded First Round Capital, helped found Idealab Studio, and served as the Founding President of Renaissance Technologies.

He has served as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University and as an Executive Fellow at UC Berkeley.

Howard currently serves as Director of Idealab Studio and on the boards of Cornell University, NY Public Library, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories and Math for America.
 
He has a PhD from Cornell University and a BS from City College of the City University of New York. 

Alan J. Patricof is the Co-Founder and Chairperson of Primetime Partners, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on servicing the aging population. A longtime innovator and advocate for venture capital, he entered the industry in its formative days with the creation of Patricof & Co. Ventures Inc., a predecessor to Apax Partners -today, one of the world's leading private equity firms with $75 billion under management. In 2006, he founded Greycroft Partners, a venture capital firm where he is currently Chairman Emeritus, to invest in leading early and expansion stage investments in digital media. With offices in New York and Los Angeles, Greycroft has $2B+under management. With a 50-plus...