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KKR Agrees to Buy Software Firm Instructure in $4.8 Billion Deal

  • Deal will see Thoma Bravo exit its Instructure holding
  • Dragoneer Investment Group participates in deal alongside KKR

Instructure provides software to help schools and teachers with planning learning schedules and monitoring student performance. 

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KKR & Co. has agreed to acquire educational software provider Instructure Holdings Inc.

The buyout firm will pay $23.60 a share in cash for Salt Lake City-based Instructure, according to a statementBloomberg Terminal on Thursday. That represents a roughly 4% premium to the company’s last closing price and values Instructure at about $4.8 billion including debt.