Blendspace
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Blendspace was a San Francisco-based edtech startup (launched 2012, originally called EdCanvas) that let teachers collate digital material - videos, text, images, PDFs, quizzes - into digital lessons in one place and share them with students, with progress tracking. A graduate of Imagine K12's 2012 class, it claimed 500,000 users in over 12,000 schools and 70 countries under CEO Amy Lin. In July 2014 it was acquired by London-based TES Global, the teacher resource network; the team joined TES's San Francisco offices and the premium features were made free for all users.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Launch and seed
Blendspace (as EdCanvas) launched and graduated from Imagine K12's 2012 class, raising seed funding from Imagine K12 and NewSchools Venture Fund.
- Acquired by TES Global
In July 2014 London-based TES Global acquired Blendspace; the team moved into TES's San Francisco offices (alongside Wikispaces) and premium offerings were expanded to all users.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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