# Kahoot!

> <p><strong>Ownership:</strong> Acquired by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (US-led consortium) in 2023 (caveat)<br><strong>Pricing:</strong> Free for K-12 teachers. Paid plans from €5-€20/user/month for business and higher-education.<br><strong>Known for:</strong> Oslo-headquartered, founded 2012 at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology by Johan Brand, Jamie Brooker and Morten Versvik. Game-based learning platform — quizzes, surveys, polls used in education, corporate training, presentations. ~9B participants since launch. Norwegian edtech that became a global classroom standard — most European schoolchildren under 25 have played Kahoot. Recent US-led PE buyout is a sovereignty caveat; Oslo engineering and product remain.<br><a href="https://kahoot.com">https://kahoot.com</a></p>

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