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  "markdown": "Chief Executive Officer.\n\nSteve Daly is chief executive of Instructure, the Salt Lake City company behind Canvas, listed first on its leadership page. The company was founded in 2008, launched Canvas in 2011 and was acquired by KKR and Dragoneer in November 2024.\n\n## What Steve builds\n\n- [Instructure Canvas](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/canvas-lms.md), graded C, 59.5/100, in Learning, tutoring \u0026 assessment. Canvas is Instructure's learning management system for schools and universities. Its REST and GraphQL APIs read and change courses, assignments, quizzes, submissions and grades on an institution's Canvas domain, with OAuth2 developer keys its administrators issue and scope. Chief Executive Officer, researched 2026-11-03.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Shiren Vijiasingam](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shiren-vijiasingam/), Chief Product Officer\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Steve Daly?\n\nSteve Daly is chief executive of Instructure, the Salt Lake City company behind Canvas, listed first on its leadership page. The company was founded in 2008, launched Canvas in 2011 and was acquired by KKR and Dragoneer in November 2024.\n\n### What does Instructure make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Instructure Canvas from Instructure. Canvas is Instructure's learning management system for schools and universities. Its REST and GraphQL APIs read and change courses, assignments, quizzes, submissions and grades on an institution's Canvas domain, with OAuth2 developer keys its administrators issue and scope.\n\n### How are Steve's tools graded?\n\nInstructure Canvas is graded C, 59.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.instructure.com/about\n- https://www.instructure.com/.well-known/security.txt\n- https://www.instructure.com/policies/privacy\n- https://developerdocs.instructure.com/services/canvas\n- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1841804/000119312524257230/d878225dex991.htm\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. If a page is about you, link your account from it to write the about and set the links yourself. For a photo, a correction or to have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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