Academix.ng Nominated by Thomson Reuters for Africa Startups Challenge

Academix.ng has been shortlisted alongside 13 other startups to win the $10,000 prize at the Thomson Reuters Africa Startups Challenge. Thomson Reuters, in partnership with Venture Capital For Africa (VC4A), have developed sophisticated assessment models for identifying high growth high potential companies.

The challenge seeks to find the best new company coming out of Africa.

The winner will be announced at the upcoming Africa Summit 2016 taking place on October 13-14, 2016 at The Westin in Cape Town, South Africa.

Speaking on the commendable development, Engineer Iso Bassey founder/CEO of Academix.ng, stated that the shortlisting was a huge encouragement to his team  considering the challenges of operating in a niche market.

“We work tirelessly to provide quality research content across the African continent. This shortlisting is indeed an encouragement to do more and be better.”

Speaking further, Bassey commended Thomson Reuters and VC4Africa, noting that the award bodes well for African startup companies.

Academix is an aggregator and e-Library of Africa focused research and knowledge resources, cutting across multiple disciplines providing a wide variety of content to Students, Researchers, Universities, Governments and Businesses.

Thomson Reuters aims to empower Africa’s success by providing government, financial, academic and business solutions that have helped move from aid-based economies to self-sustaining, knowledge-based economies for almost 150 years.

VC4Africa is the fastest growing community of entrepreneurs, mentors and investors connecting on the leading startup funding platform VC4A.com.