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Rob Hutter is the Founder & Managing Partner at Learn Capital where he has focused on seed, early-stage and emerging growth companies dedicated to the transformation of learning and the improvement of individual and societal capacities at scale.   Rob is increasingly active in AI investing and serves as a founding board member of Emergence.Ai, the developer of neuroformal AI which is a safe and secure architecture for AI that is used in autonomous semiconductor manufacturing and other mission-critical environments.  He is also a co-founder of Evolver.Ai, which he started with the Head of AI at Microsoft and the Global CTO of EY and which develops ARIA, an AI computing platform for enterprise finance used by some of the world’s largest corporations including several of the top AI companies globally.  He is also an investor in Sakana.Ai, founded by Llion Jones of DeepMind who was one of the principal authors of the 2017 paper “Attention is All You Need” that launched the LLM revolution.

Formerly Rob led Learn’s early-stage investments in Coursera (NYSE: COUR), Udemy (NYSE: UDMY), Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY), General Assembly (SWX: ADEN), and Photomath (NASDAQ: GOOG). He currently serves on the boards of Amplify, Brilliant, Prenda, and Bloomboard as well as the AI learning companies Feeling Great, Superintelligent, and Brainly.  In addition, Rob was a board member or led Learn’s investment in LearnZillion (acquired by Weld North), StudyEdge (acquired by Accelerate Learning), MasteryConnect (acquired by Instructure), StudySync (acquired by Weld North), Teachable (acquired by Hotmart), and Mystery Science (acquired by Discovery Education). Prior to starting Learn Capital, Rob was a Partner at Revolution Ventures, an early-stage venture investment firm and affiliate of Founders Fund.

Positions

  • - Founder and Managing Partner, Learn Capital

Our AI Future: Utopia or Catastrophe

May 2nd
2026

10:15 am -
11:30 am, EST

Main Stage

Session

Education

  • MAIN STAGE