Scope: Algeria Focus
Digital Economy
Yassir’s $150M Bet: Building Algeria’s Answer to Grab and Gojek
The funding round has been covered. The $150M headline, the Bond-led syndicate, the super app ambition — that story is familiar to anyone following North African tech.
Startups
Algeria’s Stock Exchange: Now Open to Startups at Zero Cost
On February 1, 2026, Algeria's financial regulator COSOB — the Commission d'Organisation et de Surveillance des Opérations de Bourse — announced that labeled startups would face zero fees to list on the Algiers Stock Exchange through 2028. It was a policy announcement that made headlines.
Startups
Startup M&A: Can a Foreign Company Buy an Algerian Startup?
Every Algerian startup founder who has taken external funding eventually asks the same question: can a foreign company acquire us? And if so, how — and under what conditions?
Startups
What Failed Algerian Startups Teach Us: Post-Mortems and Hard Lessons
Nobody publishes post-mortems in Algeria. This is not unique to Algeria — failure stigma is a feature of entrepreneurial culture globally, and the Arab world has a documented cultural aversion to associating one's name with a failed business.
Startups
Startup Retention: Equity or Salary? How Algerian Startups Keep Tech Talent
The Algerian startup founder's talent retention problem is not complicated. It has a single, unambiguous root cause: a junior developer working remotely for a European company earns approximately €500 per month — already more than 120,000 DZD, which exceeds what most
Startups
Beyond Algiers: The Startup Ecosystems Emerging in Oran, Constantine, and Annaba
Every Algerian tech article mentions Algiers. Every funding announcement is headquartered in Algiers.
Startups
Moustachir SPA: How Algeria’s First Startup IPO Changed the Exit Game
On December 31, 2024, a month-long public subscription closed on the Algiers Stock Exchange. A two-year-old consulting startup called Moustachir SPA had offered 125,000 shares at 760 dinars each.
Digital Economy
Mobile Payments: BaridiMob Has 5M Users – Why Isn’t Everyone Using It?
Algeria's digital payments story is one of genuine momentum colliding with deep-rooted habits. BaridiMob — the mobile wallet attached to Algeria Poste's CCP accounts — ended 2024 with approximately 4.7 million registered users, making it the country's largest digital payment
AI & Automation
Intent Engineering for Algerian Enterprises: Before You Deploy AI
Algeria is in the middle of an AI deployment sprint. Sonatrach announced its digital transformation roadmap integrating AI into upstream exploration and production analytics.
Startups
Algeria’s InsurTech Startups: Digitizing Car, Health, and Agricultural Insurance
Algeria's insurance industry collected 181.3 billion DZD (approximately $1.3 billion) in annual premiums in 2024 — up 4.4% year-on-year, according to the CNA (Conseil National des Assurances). It is among the largest insurance markets on the African continent.
Digital Economy
The Digital Souk: Algeria’s Informal Economy Is Going Online
Algeria's government has been digitizing with increasing urgency: 500 projects, a sovereign cloud, e-government portals, fiber optic expansion. What the official digital transformation narrative rarely acknowledges is that Algeria already has a thriving digital economy — it is just informal.
