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Meet NEO at BETT 2020 in London!

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Going to BETT 2020? As per their words , Bett is the first industry show of the year in the education technology landscape, bringing together over 800 leading companies, 103 exciting new edtech startups and over 34,000 attendees. Meet NEO at BETT 2020! We’re really looking forward to meeting you at BETT 2020!

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Crises and Capital: The Top Edtech Business Stories of 2020

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In fact, many capitalized on it in 2020. Here is a recap of the biggest and most popular edtech business stories of 2020. That set off a chain of lawsuits, layoffs and revolt from investors unhappy with the terms, which carried into 2020. It may not be the only publicly traded edtech company to be taken private.

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Canvas LMS Maker, Instructure, Appoints New CEO Steve Daly

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To continue that effort, the company announced its new CEO, Steve Daly, will start his first day of work on July 1. Daly will succeed former CEO Dan Goldsmith, who steered what was a publicly-traded company through a protracted and contested sales process to Thoma Bravo—a drama that began in December 2019. higher education market.

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4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider

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Even without a pandemic, Instructure faced a transformative 2020. One of the benefits of this change is a focus on long-term planning over displays of quarterly growth to impress shareholders, says Mitch Benson, the company’s chief product officer. So what else is next for the Salt Lake City-based edtech company?

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Instructure to Sell Bridge for $50M and Exit Corporate Learning Market

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Where Instructure planned to go with Bridge, its learning management system for corporate and enterprise customers, has been an open question for over a year, when the company was still publicly traded. Goldsmith is no longer CEO, and the Salt Lake City-based company is now privately owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.

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Instructure Lays Off About 100 As It Urges Shareholders to Support Sale

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Learning management system provider Instructure has laid off as many as 100 full-time employees as the publicly traded company nears a key shareholder vote on a proposed sale to a private equity firm. The restructuring primarily affected employees who worked on Instructure’s Bridge product, an LMS tailored to corporate learning.

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Instructure Acquires MasteryConnect for $42.5 Million to Expand K-12 Footprint

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Instructure , the publicly traded company best known for its learning management systems (LMS) Canvas and Bridge, has agreed to acquire a fellow Salt Lake City-based education technology company, MasteryConnect , for $42.5 billion by 2020. The company claims users in more than 14,000 U.S. Of that figure, about $12.3

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