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Instructure
Edtech · Cottonwood Heights, United States · Founded 2008 · IPO 2015
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
Lars JanérBrazil
Daniel MarashlianUnited States
Nick HammerschlagUnited States
Cade KruegerUnited States
Steve ArntzUnited States
Devlin DaleyUnited States
Ted FerrinUnited States
Brian WhitmerUnited States
Doug WeberUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Instructure has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Instructure's talent
Dealroom maps Instructure's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$240k 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.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Instructure deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
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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Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.


