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Learn Capital
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Learn Capital was founded in 2009 as the first venture capital firm dedicated to education and human capital development. The firm backs and builds rapidly scaling tech-enabled companies that tackle the world's biggest human-centered problems, with a focus on AI-powered learning, digital education, workforce training, and career advancement. Learn Capital prioritizes large TAM category winners, innovative business models, and exceptional founding teams, ensuring that the companies it supports drive meaningful change at scale. As Greg Mauro has articulated, the firm's thesis is to invest in transformative, disruptive companies across childcare, K–12, higher education, workforce, disabilities, and mental health — broadly seeking 'AI-led personalised, outcome-based experiences.' With $1B+ in AUM across five funds, 176 portfolio companies, 10 unicorns, three IPOs, and 27 M&A exits, Learn Capital believes AI-driven, personalized, and outcomes-based learning experiences will define the future of education and human potential.
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“Our venture thesis is to invest in stuff that is transformative. We're looking for disruptive companies. The big sectors that we like to address are childcare, K-12, higher education, workforce, disabilities, and mental health. Our broad theme is basically looking for AI-led personalised, outcome-based experiences.”
“There's not a lot of places to deploy capital, where you can go for top-tier non-concessionary returns and unleash huge impact. The more aggressive you can be, without going bankrupt, on either a quality innovation or an access innovation, you unleash the most impact, but you also unleash the biggest return.”
“What's beautiful about the digital revolution in this space is we go from analogue to education; everybody has a theory on what constitutes good education and how to get one. But when you get to digital, what is good can be evidenced through the ones and zeroes. When it works, it works. Therefore you should be able to scale it, and you should be able to base guarantees around their outcomes.”
Team
Brook Bisrat
Partner
Don Burton
Managing Partner, LearnStart
Greg Mauro
Founder, Managing Partner
Matthew Barry
Partner
Rob Hutter
Founder, Managing Partner
Vinit Sukhija
Partner
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coursera | Series A / Series B | $43m | 2013-07-10 |
| Udemy | Early Stage VC | — | — |
| Andela | Seed | $308k | 2014-09-09 |
| Amplify | Early Stage VC | — | — |
| ClassDojo | Early Stage VC | — | — |
| Brainly | Early Stage VC | — | — |
| Brilliant | Early Stage VC | — | — |
| Emergence (Merlyn Mind) | Early Stage VC | — | — |
| Superintelligent | Seed | — | 2024-04-10 |
| Feeling Great | Early Stage VC | — | 2024-08-08 |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Omidyar Network | 4 |
| Spark Capital | 3 |
| Kleiner Perkins | 3 |
| GSV Capital | 3 |
| Kapor Capital | 3 |
| Rethink Education | 2 |
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