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Learn Capital

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LearnCapital is a venture capital firm that invests in tech-enabled education companies.

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01.01.2008

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LearnCapital is the first and leading venture capital firm solely focused on funding entrepreneurs in the education technology sector. They believe that the future of education is being shaped by new technology platforms, applications, and services that enhance classroom learning and enable learning anytime, anywhere. Their mission is to support companies that empower individuals with the knowledge, tools, and capacity to thrive in a rapidly evolving society. LearnCapital backs and builds ventures that contribute to the advancement of education and help people flourish.
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Greg Mauro
Greg Mauro

Greg Mauro

Greg Mauro is the Founder and Managing Partner at Learn Capital, having previously managed an affiliate of Founders Fund. He served on the inaugural foundation board for High Tech High for eight years, and during that tenure launched a U.S. Treasury-backed New Markets fund focused on education facilities for high performing high schools. He has also co-founded four venture-backed startups used by millions across the education, wireless, and media sectors, including Edmodo, which is used by over 80 million teachers and students worldwide. Greg is the co-founder of Nextivity, SmartDrive, and Tachyon, which have collectively received $350M in venture capital. Prior to these ventures, he joined four engineers to launch Entropic, which created the MoCA home networking standard before going public. He started his career as a strategy consultant for Monitor Group and is a graduate of UCLA’s College of Honors. An avid skier and surfer, Greg has visited over 100 countries. He is the Chairman and co-owner of Powder Mountain, the largest ski area in the United States, and is also Chairman of the Summit Institute.

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Robert Hutter
Robert Hutter

Robert Hutter

Robert J. Hutter is a Managing Partner of Learn Capital. Rob is chairman of Edmodo, a leading social learning network for K12, and he also serves on the boards of several Learn Capital portfolio companies including Schooltube, BloomBoard, MobLab, and LearnZillion. Rob was co-founder of Edusoft (acquired by Houghton-Mifflin), one of the most widely used assessment management platforms in US public education. Rob is a patent holder in games-based adaptive learning and is the founder of a tax credits partnership administered by the U.S. Treasury focusing on high performance schools. In addition to his background in education, Rob was co-founder of Gazillion, a developer of massively multiplayer online videogames featuring Marvel Entertainment franchises, and was co-founder of SmartDrive, a developer of life saving solutions for fleet vehicle operators that was recently named to the Wall Street Journal Top 50 Venture-Backed Startup List. Earlier in his career, Rob worked at Fundamental Capital and was instrumental in the founding stages of Silicon Spice which sold to Broadcom for $1.2 billion. He is a graduate of Harvard University.

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Learn Capital
Learn Capital

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Robert Hutter

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Vanessa Rutstein

Vice president of accounting and finance

Vinit Sukhija

Vinit Sukhija

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Brook Bisrat

Brook Bisrat

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Susan Wang

Susan Wang

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Paul Strange

Paul Strange

COO & General Counsel

Michael Staton

Michael Staton

Partner

Robert Hutter

Robert Hutter

Founder and Managing Partner

Greg Mauro

Greg Mauro

Founder and Managing Partner

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