startup exit
Startups
ASF’s First Exit: How Algeria’s Startup Fund Is Building a Series A Pipeline
⚡ Key Takeaways Algeria’s Algerian Startup Fund (ASF) recorded its first portfolio exit in December 2025 when travel-tech startup Völz...
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Lime’s Nasdaq IPO: How a Scooter Startup Survived the Winter and Chose Public Markets
⚡ Key Takeaways Lime filed for a Nasdaq IPO under ticker ‘LIME’ on May 8, 2026, reporting $886.7 million in...
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Algeria Competition Council: What Startup Founders Must Know Before Selling or Being Acquired
⚡ Key Takeaways Algeria reactivated its Competition Council (ACC) in February 2025, triggering mandatory merger clearance for any startup acquisition...
Startups
Startup Secondaries Hit $226B: How Private Liquidity Is Rewriting the VC Exit Playbook
⚡ Key Takeaways Global secondary market volume hit a record $226 billion in 2025, up 41% from 2024, with Q1...
Startups
Algeria’s First VC Exit: ASF’s 3.35x Return on Völz Signals Ecosystem Maturity
⚡ Key Takeaways Algeria’s first public VC exit: ASF earned a 3.35x return on Völz’s $5M Series A in December...
Startups
The Exit Window in 2026: IPOs, Big Tech Acquisitions, and What Founders Should Expect
For three years, the startup exit market was frozen. The IPO window that had flooded venture portfolios with liquidity in 2020 and 2021 slammed shut as interest rates rose, public market multiples compressed, and institutional investors grew wary of growth-at-any-cost narratives.
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The SaaS Consolidation Wave: Private Equity Is Buying Up the Mid-Market
The SaaS bubble of 2021-2022 inflated fast and deflated faster. Revenue multiples that once touched 20x-30x collapsed to 4x-6x as interest rates rose and growth-at-all-costs gave way to profitable growth.
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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
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.
