500+
Institutions
2.4M+
Exams delivered
99.98%
Platform uptime
47
Countries served
A different kind of assessment company
We started zAccess after watching too many of our own students lose admissions over a malfunctioning testing platform. The software was either hostile to learners — locking cameras, recording bedrooms, treating every glance as cheating — or so brittle that an outage during midterms could derail a semester.
We believed there was a better way: a platform that takes integrity seriously and treats students like adults. One that scales to millions without breaking, gives instructors back their evenings, and produces evidence you can actually defend in a hearing.
That's the only kind of assessment software we want to build.
Our values
Four principles that govern every product decision.
Radical fairness
Sophisticated proctoring that respects student privacy while keeping integrity standards high. Equity is built into our code, not bolted on.
Proven reliability
Infrastructure designed to handle millions of simultaneous users without a flicker. When exams are on the line, zero-failure is the floor.
Educator first
Teachers are the heartbeat of the classroom. Our UI gets out of the way so educators focus on student growth, not menus.
Built with care
Every animation, every microcopy, every empty state — designed by humans who actually take exams seriously.
Seven years, one mission
2019
The first prototype
Two co-founders, a borrowed lecture hall, and 300 students. The first proctored exam runs with zero incidents.
2021
Series A
$8M led by Helix Ventures. Team grows to 18. We open the Lagos engineering hub.
2023
Multi-tenant launch
zAccess goes platform — institutions can spin up their own branded workspaces in minutes.
2024
1 million exams
We cross the 1M exams milestone with 99.99% uptime and SOC 2 Type II certification.
2026
AI-assisted authoring
Smart question generation, rubric drafting, and integrity insights — all human-in-the-loop.
The team behind zAccess
Decades of pedagogical expertise meets world-class cloud engineering.
Dr. Adebayo Okafor
CEO & Co-founder
Former dean of assessment, EdTech entrepreneur.
Fatima Al-Hassan
CTO & Co-founder
Distributed systems architect, ex-Cloudflare.
Chinedu Eze
Head of Product
Spent a decade making software educators love.
Amara Diallo
Lead Designer
Accessible-first design, speaks 4 languages.
Emeka Nwosu
VP Engineering
Scales backends and mentors the next generation.
Zainab Ibrahim
Head of Customer Success
Ministry-level partnerships across 4 continents.
In the press
How zAccess is rebuilding the exam — without the dystopia
TechCrunch · Mar 2026
30 Under 30: The CEO bringing fairness to digital testing
Forbes Africa · Feb 2026
The CBT platform educators don't dread
EdSurge · Nov 2025
Recognition
EdTech Breakthrough · Best CBT 2025
G2 Leader · Spring 2026
SOC 2 Type II Certified
Forbes Cloud 100 — Rising Stars
Where we work
Lisbon
Portugal
Lagos
Nigeria
London
United Kingdom
Singapore
Singapore
Come build with us
We're hiring across product, engineering and customer teams. If shaping the next decade of education sounds like your kind of weekend conversation, we'd love to hear from you.
5 open roles
- Engineering
Senior Backend Engineer
Remote · EMEA
- Engineering
Staff Frontend Engineer
Lisbon · Hybrid
- Design
Product Designer (Assessment)
Remote · Global
- Sales
Account Executive — Higher Ed
London · Hybrid
- Customer
Implementation Manager
Lagos · On-site
Let's build the future of assessment
Whether you want to use zAccess, partner with us, or join the team — we'd love to talk.