Chegg Tutors

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InstaEDU, Inc.

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Education
Founded	San Francisco, California, USA in November 2011
Headquarters	San Francisco  , United States
Key people	Alison Johnston, Dan Johnston, Joey Shurtleff (cofounders)
Products	Online Tutoring
Parent	Chegg
Website	CheggTutors

Chegg Tutors (formerly known as InstaEDU) was 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]

History[]

Chegg Tutors was founded in 2011 as InstaEDU and launched into public beta in May 2012. At that time, the company also announced that it had raised $1.1M in venture capital funding from The Social+Capital Partnership.^[2] Two of the company's co-founders 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.^{[citation needed]}

On 3 June 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]

In 2017, Chegg partnered with Sallie Mae to give student borrowers access to Chegg Tutors.^[6]

In late 2020, Chegg announced that Chegg Tutors would be discontinued in 2021. The last day for lessons was announced as January 15, with the last payments to tutors to be made on January 22, and the site to cease operations on January 31.^[7]

Services[]

Students can visit InstaEDU and get matched with a tutor on-demand.^[8] InstaEDU allows students to browse tutor profiles and schedule lessons with a specific tutor. The InstaEDU lesson space uses video chat, text chat, a whiteboard, 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;^[9] the mobile site supports messaging, scheduling and written lessons. The site announced that they will cease operations on 31 January 2021.^[10]

Reception[]

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.^[11][12][13] CEO and cofounder Alison Johnston was named to Forbes 30 under 30 in Education in January 2014.^[14]

References[]

External links[]

• Chegg Tutors Official Site
• InstaEDU Official Site