logistics
Startups
Africa’s Startup Funding Diversifies Beyond Fintech: The Continental Sector Shift
⚡ Key Takeaways In a historic reversal, clean energy overtook fintech as Africa's top-funded startup sector by Q3 2025, capturing...
Digital Economy
B2B Marketplaces Are Coming to Algeria: Digitizing Industrial Procurement
⚡ Key Takeaways A construction foreman in Blida needs 50 tons of reinforcing steel for a housing project. He calls...
Digital Economy
The COD Trap: How Cash on Delivery Is Strangling Algeria’s E-Commerce
⚡ Key Takeaways Roughly 95% of Algeria’s e-commerce transactions use Cash on Delivery, creating a structural Return-to-Sender crisis where merchants...
Digital Economy
The Marketplace Wars: Amazon, Temu, Shein, and the Battle for Global E-Commerce
In the span of roughly two years, two Chinese-founded platforms rewrote the rules of global e-commerce. Temu launched in the United States in September 2022 and became the most downloaded app in America within weeks.
Digital Economy
28 Startups, One Delivery Problem: Algeria’s Last-Mile War
Algeria has 28 logistics technology startups fighting over the same delivery corridor. That number — tracked by Tracxn as of January 2026 — is extraordinary for a market of Algeria's size, and it signals two things simultaneously: the e-commerce logistics opportunity is real
