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Instructure
Edtech · Cottonwood Heights, United States · Founded 2008 · IPO 2015 Unicorn
Instructure mafia
Startups founded by Instructure alumni
Former Instructure employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Michel VisserNetherlands
Daniel MarashlianUnited States
Lars JanérBrazil
Doug WeberUnited States
Cade KruegerUnited States
Steve ArntzUnited States
Devlin DaleyUnited States
Ted FerrinUnited States
Brian WhitmerUnited States
Nick HammerschlagUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Instructure has talent and traffic
(11 of 2,204 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$235k patent portfolio · 3 active families
Where Instructure concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Instructure and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Instructure's 9 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Instructure appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2017–2024. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
9 deals across Instructure's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
02 · Portfolio market map
Instructure's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Instructure
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Instructure on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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