ALGERIATECH Editorial
Digital Economy
Africa’s $36 Billion Digital Wallet Boom and PayPal’s Continental Bet
The Continent That Skipped the Bank Branch Africa did something that confounded development economists for a generation: it built a...
Startups
YC Goes Crypto: Stablecoin Funding and the New Startup Finance Stack
The Announcement That Shook Startup Finance In early February 2026, Y Combinator made an announcement that, on its surface, seemed...
Startups
The IPO Paradox: Goldman Predicts $160 Billion but the Pipeline Is Stalling
The Optimistic Projection Goldman Sachs opened 2026 with a forecast that turned heads across the financial industry: US IPO proceeds...
Startups
Robotics Foundation Models: The Real Breakthrough Is Software, Not Hardware
The Software Moment in Robotics For decades, robotics has been a hardware story. The industry’s milestones have been physical: Boston...
Startups
The $19 Billion Month: Physical AI and Autonomous Systems Hit Escape Velocity
February’s Funding Frenzy February 2026 will be remembered as the month physical AI became impossible to ignore. In a span...
Startups
Orbital Computing: The Startups Bringing Data Centers to Space
The Audacious Premise On February 26, 2026, Sophia Space announced a $10 million seed round for what may be the...
Startups
The Deskless AI Frontier: Startups Building for 2.7 Billion Forgotten Workers
The Invisible Majority When Silicon Valley discusses the future of work, it almost invariably means the future of desk-based knowledge...
Startups
Defense Tech’s Venture Gold Rush: From Ethical Taboo to $49 Billion Sector
The Ethical Reversal Five years ago, a prominent venture capitalist investing in defense technology would have faced protests from their...
Startups
The AI Chip Insurgency: $1.2 Billion in One Week to Dethrone Nvidia
The Week That Changed the Chip Wars In the third week of February 2026, something unprecedented happened in the semiconductor...
Startups
The Acquihire Arms Race: Big Tech’s Billion-Dollar Talent Raids on AI Startups
The New M&A: Buying People, Not Products On February 25, 2026, Anthropic quietly announced the acquisition of Vercept, a small...
Startups
Agentic AI’s Production Gap: Why Only 11% of Enterprises Have Agents Running
The Hype-Deployment Chasm Agentic AI is the most hyped category in enterprise technology in 2026. Every major cloud provider, every...
