Instructure is not the same company it was just a year or two ago. Thanks to public reporting, the changes are out in the open.
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Interview with CEO of Instructure on changes to executive team
Out: the three M’s – Marc Maloy, Misty Frost, and Mitch Macfarlane. In: Bjorn Erikkson and Dan Goldsmith. Question: How will Instructure handle the latest executive changes?
Interview with Josh Coates, CEO of Instructure, on today’s IPO
Instructure, maker of the Canvas (higher ed and K-12 markets) LMS and Bridge (corporate learning market) LMS, held their Initial Public Offering today. Prior to the IPO, Wall Street analysts focused on the company’s growth, its large losses, and the challenges of the education market. The company was priced on the lower end of its […]
Instructure: Accelerating growth in 3 parallel markets
I’m not sure which is more surprising – Instructure’s continued growth with no major hiccups or their competitors’ inability after a half-decade to understand and accept what is at its core a very simple strategy. Despite Canvas LMS winning far more new higher ed and K-12 customers than any other vendor, I still hear competitors claim that schools […]
First View of Bridge: The new corporate LMS from Instructure
Last week I covered the announcement from Instructure that they had raised another $40 million in venture funding and were expanding into the corporate learning market. Today I was able to see a demo of their new corporate LMS, Bridge. While Instructure has very deliberately designed a separate product from Canvas, their education-focused LMS, you can […]
What TechCrunch Got Wrong (and Right) About Instructure Entering Corporate Learning Market
After yesterday’s “sources say” report from TechCrunch about Instructure – maker of the Canvas LMS – raising a new round of financing and entering the corporate LMS space, Instructure changed plans and made their official announcement to today. The funding is to both expand the Canvas team and to establish the new corporate LMS team. I’m […]