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Kahoot!

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share, and play fun learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. The platform offers learning games in minutes for any subject, in any language, on any device, and for all ages. Based on the mission of making learning awesome, Kahoot!’s game-based platform engages the heart, hand, and mind, creating a wildly more social, meaningful, and powerful pedagogical experience. Kahoot!’s platform and easy-to-use features attract educators and students as well as corporate powerhouses, sporting, and cultural events. In 2012, co-founders Alf Inge Wang, Asmund Furuseth, Jamie Brooker, Johan Brand, and Morten Versvik established the company in Oslo, Oslo.

kahoot.com Oslo, Norway 251-500 employees
Total raised
$153M
Rounds
1
Latest
Post-IPO Secondary
Sep 2022

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share, and play fun learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. The platform offers learning games in minutes for any subject, in any language, on any device, and for all ages. Based on the mission of making learning awesome, Kahoot!’s game-based platform engages the heart, hand, and mind, creating a wildly more social, meaningful, and powerful pedagogical experience. Kahoot!’s platform and easy-to-use features attract educators and students as well as corporate powerhouses, sporting, and cultural events. In 2012, co-founders Alf Inge Wang, Asmund Furuseth, Jamie Brooker, Johan Brand, and Morten Versvik established the company in Oslo, Oslo.

Kahoot! has raised $153M across 1 round. Its most recent round was a Post-IPO Secondary of $153M in Sep 2022. Full funding history, investors, and team are detailed below.

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Sep 16, 2022
Post-IPO Secondary
$153M

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