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Algerian edtech LabLabee closes $3.4 million Seed round

Algeria-based edtech LabLabee has raised $3.4 million in a Seed funding round, led by Reach Capital with contributions from Classera and...

LabLabee Reach Capital EdTech

Algeria

Algeria’s super app Yassir raises $150 million Series B funding

Algeria-based super app Yassir, has raised $150 million in Series B funding, led by BOND, with participation from DN...

Yassir super app BOND

Algeria

Green Algeria: Turning household waste into electricity

Algerians produce 13 million tonnes of household waste per year, or one kilogram per inhabitant, per day. While 45 per cent of this waste...

Green Algeria agritech Sustainability

Algeria

Algerian Startup Fund to invest $411 million in local startups

The Algerian Startup Fund (ASF) has signed an agreement with the country’s General Directorate of the Treasury to launch a new...

Algeria Startup Fund

Algeria

Algeria Venture and AIF launch $10 million VC fund

Algeria-based accelerator Algeria Venture (A-Venture) and the Algeria Investment Fund (AIF) have partnered to launch a VC fund targeting...

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Algeria

Yassir raises $30 million in Series A

Algeria-based super app Yassir has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by WndrCo, DN Capital, Kismet Capital, Spike Ventures, and...

Yassir Logistics

Algeria

Algerian Startup Financing Fund raises $7.2 million to support local startups

The Algerian Startup Financing Fund has raised DA1 billion ($7.2 million) to fund startups in Algeria. The fund was launched during...

Algerian Startup Financing Fund Algeria Disrupt 2020

Algeria

temtem launches its super app

Algeria-based mobility startup temtem has launched its super app, temtem one. Founded in 2017 by Kamel Haddar, the app first started off...

Superapp temtem Halan

Algeria

TemTem raises $4 million in series A

Source: MenaBytes Algiers-based ride-hailing startup TemTem has raised $4 million in a Series A round, the startup announced in a...

largest Series A ride-hailing

Algeria

Afrikonnect - Engaging Corporates with African Startups

StartupYourLife and LaFactory, two key ecosystem players in the Moroccan tech scene, are building a platform to connect leading...

MENA africa Afrikonnect

Algeria

Seedstars Algiers

Seedstars World is on a mission to identify the best seed-stage entrepreneurs and provide them with an opportunity to win up to USD 1...

algeria seedstars Innovation

Algeria

How this Algerian entrepreneur is recycling plastic waste

Unemployment rate in Algeria increased to 10.5 percent, reaches almost 27 percent of the youth, and 20 percent of women, according to...

algeria waste trash

Algeria

From dates to big data, entrepreneurship as therapy

“You need to start by entering your order into the machine,” a waiter explained to Hadj Khelil at a McDonald’s in Paris....

big data organic farming

Algeria

Algeria’s startup culture: from the ground and up

Lack of e-payment systems, sluggish bureaucracy, and scarce access to financing are some of the issues faced by an aspiring Algerian...

algeria Gotta Love Algeria Eblink

Algeria

Offshore easier than home for Algerian ecommerce startup Zawwali

Algeria’s crusty postal system, lack of addresses and minimal online payment options made international expansion for ecommerce...

Zawwali ecommerce Echrily

Algeria

Hate speech to dialogue: Munathara reframes online debate

Social media is often depicted as a game changer for democracy and freedom of speech, but by no means has it contributed to healthy...

Munathara Debate Belabbes Benkredda

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Wamda’s best stories of 2016

2016 was the year of trying new things and testing some ideas on you, our readers. We brought in a weekly series we called Startup...

Wamda2016 shezlong sympaticus

Algeria

Why isn't carpooling working in Algeria?

Traffic, pollution, honking - the lack of public transportation is a strain on Algerian cities, one that could be solved if more people...

Transport mobilité covoiturage

Algeria

Seedstars Algeria 2016

Seedstars World is coming back to Algeria! This time bigger, stronger, better. On October 29, the 12 best startups from Constantine,...

Pitch competition seedstars

Algeria

Is Algeria finally getting a startup ecosystem?

Back in January, Algeria had zero coworking spaces. Today it has two easily accessible spaces, in Algiers, where entrepreneurs can meet,...

algeria Coworking Incubator

Algeria

Algerian Team Takes Microsoft's Global Stage to Fight Diabetes

This July, three Algerian college students became the first team from the Middle East and North Africa to place as finalists in the cloud...

Competitions Health Mobile Apps

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