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Did you ever give a second thought to a better constructive process? What about discovering something new, maybe a new product? Creativity is a process or a pathway towards expressing brand new relationships or so. One should always scrutinize ideas to explore relatively in a different way because, in today's world, the difference has got a great glamour!
Quizizz is a creative software company and is also considered to be the world's most engaging learning platform. The platform allows the users to create as well as find gamified quizzes. Quizzes are simple and an old concept but Quizizz have made this more interesting therefore by gamifying it! Read the Quizizz success story below.
Quizizz - Company Highlights
- Startup Name-Quizizz
- Headquarters-Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Sector-E-Learning, EdTech, Gamification, Software and Training
- Founders-Ankit Gupta and Deepak Joy Cheenath
- Founded-2015
- Website-quizizz.com
Quizizz - About
Quizizz is a software company. The application is mostly used in group works, examinations, classes and tests. This allows both the parties - the teachers as well as the students to stay online at the same time. Presentations can also be made with the help of Quizizz. So, Quizizz is a user-friendly application not only for the students but also for the working professionals like teachers or the employees of the MNC's. It is nothing but an online assessment equipment!
Quizizz - Startup Story
Since quizzes used to be a common and a boring subject, eventually, people started to lose interest and the subject material got lost into the hustle and bustle of life. BITS-Pilani alumni Deepak and Ankit thought of making this more interesting by adding creativity to it. The founders combined the concept of gaming along with the questions and feedback was too attached to it to aid the youngsters to learn more! This made online classes much more interesting than the usual. It especially helped the teachers to bring a smile to the student's faces. The team made the theory of quizzes easier and made it more enjoyable.
Quizizz - Founder and Team
Ankit Gupta and Deepak Joy Cheenath are the founders of the company Quizizz.
Ankit Gupta
Ankit Gupta is the CEO and the Co-Founder of the company. He began his career as an Intern at Pentair Water India Ltd. Ankit worked as a Contract Developer in Google. He was also an Intern at Flipkart.com. Ankit was an Analytics Specialist at Opera Solutions. He was also the Co-Founder of the company WizenWorld. He completed his education from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
Deepak Joy Cheenath
Deepak Joy Cheenath is also the Co-Founder of the company. He is a software developer. He began his career as an Intern at SAP Labs. Deepak was the Software Development Engineer at Amazon. He was also the Co-Founder of the company WizenWorld. Deepak has also completed his education from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
Founders, Quizizz
Quizizz - Business Model
The business model of Quizizz is quite simple! This application helps the teachers to construct quizzes of a particular topic in their own way by enhancing the curated subject on the platform. Then, the students take the quiz in their online classrooms, especially which can be later checked by the subject teachers with the help of the collected data.
Quizizz - Revenue Model
Quizizz can be operated on any device like Android, Web browser, Chrome and iOS. It is kind of a free equipment for quizzers. Creation of a quiz or ready-made quizzes, everything is accessible over here. Quizizz Super is an upgraded version of Quizizz where one needs to pay. This platform has got a new paid plan along with itself. It helps the teachers a lot especially with amazing offers whenever he or she is upgrading their basic plan.
Quizizz - Funding and Investors
Quizizz has raised a total amount of $47 million in funding over the 4 funding rounds.
Date Transaction Name Money Raised Lead Investors
June 29, 2021 Series B $31.5 million Tiger Global Management
March 9, 2021 Series A Rs. 910 million Eight Roads Ventures India
August 9, 2018 Venture Round $3 million Nexus Venture Partners
January 1, 2015 Seed Round - Prime Venture Partners
Quizizz is funded by 8 investors. Tiger Global Management is the most recent investor.
Quizizz - Competitors
The top competitors of the company Quizizz are Quizlet, Kahoot and Gimkit.
Quizlet
Quizlet is one of the top competitors of Quizizz. This company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA and was founded in 2005. Quizlet works in the Educational Software sector.
Kahoot!
Kahoot! is the top #2 rival of Quizizz. This company is headquartered in Oslo, Oslo. Kahoot! also operates in the Educational Software industry.
Gimkit
Gimkit is also perceived as one of the top competitors of Quizizz. This company is headquartered at Seattle, WASHINGTON, D.C. and was founded in 2017. Gimkit also works in the Educational Software field just like the other above mentioned companies.
Since everything is online now, Quizizz being an online assessment equipment has allowed the users to create quizzes. And this has turned out to be a fantastic idea recently because of its uniqueness which no one has examined before!
