If you've been searching for an AI quiz platform that actually keeps people engaged, not just one that generates questions and calls it a day, you're going to want to read this.
Kvistly has been quietly building something different. And over the past few months, the media has started to notice.
From one of Spain's oldest newspapers to Barcelona's most active startup community, Kvistly has been featured across publications that don't hand out coverage lightly. This post rounds up where we've appeared, what was said, and what it means for the people who use, or are thinking about using, our platform.
There's no shortage of tools that claim to use AI to make learning better. Most of them generate a list of questions and present them on a screen. That's useful, but it doesn't solve the real problem: people aren't engaged.
Kvistly is an AI quiz platform built around one core insight, that engagement doesn't come from the content alone, it comes from having something at stake.
Here's how it works. You upload a document, paste in a topic, or simply type a few words. The AI generates a full, ready-to-run quiz in under a minute. Participants join via link with no app download needed, pick a nickname, and then, before answering each question, they place a bet. They wager points based on how confident they feel. Answer correctly and you win. Answer wrong and you lose your stake.
It sounds simple. But that one mechanic changes everything about how people show up in a session. Suddenly, everyone is paying attention. The leaderboard is moving. Someone called "Potato" is in second place. The room is alive.
That's what Kvistly is. An AI quiz platform that turns training sessions, classroom lessons, and live events into experiences people actually remember.
Corporate teams use Kvistly for onboarding, training, and keeping distributed teams connected. Clients include L'Oréal, DHL, and Perk. Instead of another slide deck, they run a live session where new hires compete, collaborate, and walk away actually knowing the material.
Educators use it to replace passive lessons with live, competitive quizzes. Over 2,000 teachers across multiple countries are on the platform. Public school teachers worldwide get free access, no trial period, no credit card.
Event organizers and workshop facilitators use it to make any live session interactive. Whether it's a conference, a team-building day, or a training workshop, Kvistly gives every person in the room a reason to participate.
The platform works across a wider age range than you might expect. Nine-year-olds get it immediately. So do people in their seventies. If you can click a link, you can play.
AI quiz generation, The fastest part. Upload your content or describe your topic and have a fully built quiz ready in under a minute. What previously took hours now takes less than sixty seconds.
Live interactive sessions, Real-time leaderboards, the betting mechanic, and participant nicknames combine to make every session feel like an event rather than a test.
Engagement and performance tracking, After each session, hosts get detailed data on how participants performed, where knowledge gaps exist, and what needs to be revisited.
Flexible modes, Not every context calls for competition. Kvistly includes a non-betting mode for situations where a lower-pressure format is more appropriate.
Easy participation, No app, no setup, no friction. Participants join via a shared link and they're within seconds.
Kvistly has a free plan that gives you genuine access to the platform, enough to run real sessions and see whether it works for your team or classroom. Paid plans are available for teams and organizations that need higher participant limits, advanced analytics, and additional features. Pricing scales with usage. And as mentioned, public school teachers get full free access, globally, always.
Tech Barcelona is the hub at the center of Barcelona's startup ecosystem, home to over 1,500 founders, scale-ups, and tech companies. Their "Members Calling" series profiles the people building things, honest, direct interviews that go beyond the pitch.
In March 2026, Kvistly founder Elena Zangeeva was featured as Member #154.
Elena holds an MSc in Social Psychology and spent 14 years leading HR at companies including Boston Consulting Group and Bumble. She built the first version of Kvistly during COVID, when her team went remote and engagement completely fell apart. She designed an interactive game about their own company, inside jokes, culture, shared stories, and it worked. That experiment became the product.
The interview is candid about what bootstrapped building actually looks like: "It taught me resilience, sharper prioritization and how to grow through real traction, not vanity metrics." The title of the piece comes from the best advice she ever received, on her very first day of work in 2012: "You never get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate."
Read the full feature on Tech Barcelona →
El Español is one of Spain's largest digital news platforms, reaching close to 20 million unique readers every month. It's not a niche outlet, it's where a broad, general Spanish-speaking audience goes for news, ideas, and culture.
In March 2026, El Español published a profile of Elena and Kvistly as part of their coverage of founders reshaping education and workplace learning. The piece centers on the engagement problem, the fact that most training and classroom learning is boring in a way that has real consequences, and how Kvistly's AI quiz platform addresses it.
A few things the article highlights stand out. The age range, from children to 70-year-olds, positions Kvistly as something genuinely universal rather than a tool built for one demographic. The free access model for educators is noted as a meaningful commitment. And Elena's own framing of the product's boundaries resonates: "In education, the human experience is never substituted." Kvistly is a tool that makes great teaching more effective. It's not a replacement for the teacher.
Read the full feature on El Español →
La Vanguardia has been publishing since 1881. Based in Barcelona, it's one of the most widely read newspapers in Spain, over 23 million monthly readers domestically and more than 50 million worldwide. It has the kind of institutional credibility that takes generations to build.
Kvistly appeared in their technology and society section, placed within the broader conversation about how AI is changing learning and corporate training. Coverage in La Vanguardia signals something specific: this is a product that matters to a general audience, not just to early adopters and tech insiders.
Read the original article on La Vanguardia →
Three features across three distinct audiences, startup founders, general readers, and the broader Spanish-speaking public, in the space of a few months tells a clear story. Kvistly isn't being covered as a novelty. It's being covered as a product that solves a real problem in a space that a lot of people care about.
The AI quiz platform category is growing fast. More organizations are investing in learning and development. More educators are looking for tools that don't require an hour of setup to deliver a twenty-minute session. More event hosts want live participation, not passive audiences.
Kvistly is built for exactly that moment, and the coverage reflects it.
If you're ready to try the AI quiz platform that's getting noticed, start for free at kvistly.com.
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