online tutoring founded san francisco california usa in november 2011 key people alison johnston dan johnston joey shurtleff cofounders products online tutoring website instaedu.com instaedu acquired in june 2014 by chegg and rebranded as chegg tutors is an online tutoring company that matches students who need help with online tutors . students can receive help either on demand or by scheduling a lesson . 1 contents 1 history 2 services 3 reception 4 references 5 external links history edit instaedu was founded in 2011 and launched into public beta in may 2012 . at that time the company also announced that it had raised 1.1 m in venture capital funding from the social capital partnership . 2 two of the company s cofounders had previously run an in home tutoring company called cardinal scholars . after running cardinal scholars they got the idea for an online tutoring company instaedu . in july 2012 they sold cardinal scholars to course hero . 3 in august 2013 the service announced it had raised a 4 million series a round of funding 4 from battery ventures . at that time the instaedu service also came out of beta . on june 3 2014 chegg announced that it purchased instaedu for 30 million in cash and that it plans to keep the instaedu service active as part of the purchase . 5 services edit students can visit instaedu and get matched with a tutor on demand . 6 instaedu allows students to browse tutor profiles and schedule lessons with a specific tutor . the instaedu lesson space uses video chat text chat a white board a document editor code editor screen sharing and a file uploader to allow students and tutors to work together . in april 2014 the site announced that it was mobile friendly ; 7 the mobile site supports messaging scheduling and written lessons . reception edit instaedu has been featured on the today show as a great job for students over the summer and included in a write up in the wall street journal on online tutoring . mashable listed instaedu first in a write up of dependable sources for online tutoring . 8 9 10 ceo and cofounder alison johnston rue was named to forbes 30 under 30 in education in january 2014 . 11 references edit homework questions ask a tutor on instaedu . instaedu on demand video tutoring gets an a and 1.1 m seed from the social capital partnership . constine josh . edutech team up course hero buys cardinal scholars in person tutoring business from instaedu . techcrunch . retrieved 4 may 2013 . taylor colleen . online tutoring platform instaedu raises 4 million series a led by battery ventures . techcrunch . retrieved 20 december 2013 . griffith erin . chegg buys instaedu in transition away from book rentals . fortune magazine . retrieved 8 june 2014 . instaedu on demand tutoring for instant homework help . clemens ben . http blog.instaedu.com 2014 04 14 mobile friendly instaedu . external link in title help how teens can earn extra cash over the summer . the today show . shellenbarger sue . invasion of the online tutors . the wall street journal . retrieved 20 december 2013 . fox zoe . dependable destinations for online tutoring . mashable . howard caroline . forbes 30 under 30 education . forbes . external links edit chegg tutors official site instaedu official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title instaedu & oldid 704566451 categories distance educationeducation companies of the united statesinternet companieshidden categories cs1 errors external linkspages using infobox company with unsupported parametersuse dmy dates from february 2015use dmy dates from september 2012 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 february 2016 at 06 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view