Robert Hutter
Managing Partner at Learn Capital
San Mateo, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Partner
2010 - Current
Venture capital fund focused on building early stage startups into multi-billion dollar companies primarily within the global education sector. Serve as Learn Capital board member or designee for public and private companies including Coursera, Varsity Tutors/Nerdy, Udemy, Andela, VIPKID, Photomath, Brilliant, Sololearn, Merlyn Mind, Prenda, and other breakthrough enterprises in technology-augmented learning.
LearnCapital is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on funding entrepreneurs with a vision for better and smarter learning.
Investor & Board Member
2023
AI learning and personal productivity community featuring dozens of hands-on AI experiences founded by the #1 AI podcaster on Spotify.
Board Member
2023
AI powered wellness from Stanford and the Feeling Good Institute, founded by the growth lead at DoorDash. Launching broadly in 2024.
Investor & Board Member
2021
Amplify is dedicated to collaborating with educators to create learning experiences that are rigorous and riveting for all students. Amplify creates K–12 core and supplemental curriculum, assessment, and intervention programs for today’s students.
Amplify Education provides next-generation curriculum and formative assessment.
Raised $215,000,000.00 from A-Street Ventures, Emerson Collective, Learn Capital and Cox Enterprises.
Investor & Board Member
2020
Brainly is the AI powered knowledge-sharing community where hundreds of millions of students and experts collaborate to teach and learn during daily homework sessions around the world.
Investor & Board Member
2020
Kibeam is a pioneering ed-tech startup at the forefront of addressing the prevailing literacy crisis through innovation and advanced technology. Rooted in AI and brain science, the Kibeam Reader Learning System breathes life into ordinary paper picture books, creating engaging, kinetic, interactive learning experiences for children up through 7.
Kibeam Learning is a pioneering ed-tech startup at the forefront of addressing the prevailing literacy crisis through advanced technology.
Investor & Board Member
2019
Prenda helps parents and teachers operate world-class microschools by partnering with regulated, state-credentialed educational institutions to engage small groups of 5-10 students in mastery-focused, project-based learning.
Prenda is an ed-tech company with the vision of helping young people learn technology in fun informal settings.
Raised $45,802,599.00 from Peak State Ventures, Seven Seven Six, MVP Ventures, Learn Capital, Daniel Schryer, Duro Ventures, LearnStart, Bossa Invest and Pioneer Fund.
Investor & Chairman of the Board
2019
Merlyn Mind is a leading AI platform company known for its performant LLMs and hyper scalable infra tech solving hallucinations, privacy, voice, latency, and cost factors across a range of use cases in learning and beyond. Founded by IBM Research vets and joined by alums of Google Brain, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Alexa, and other top AI labs.
Merlyn Mind is a technology company that provides AI-based solutions to various industries.
Raised $29,000,000.00 from Learn Capital and Noetic Fund.
Investor & Board Member
2015
Brilliant's mission is to inspire and develop people to achieve their goals in math, science, engineering, and AI — one person, one question, and one small commitment to learning at a time.
Brilliant delivers digital interactive STEM learning experiences to students, professionals, and lifelong learners around the world.
Raised $25,000,000.00 from Angel Collective Opportunity Fund and Union Square Ventures.
Investor & Board Member
2010
Prenda helps parents and teachers operate world-class microschools by partnering with regulated, state-credentialed educational institutions to engage small groups of 5-10 students in mastery-focused, project-based learning.
Education
BA
1990 - 1994