How many startups are there in Algeria in 2026?

We do not publish that figure. We found no official count published, and our directory is not a census: it holds 6,255 records, of which 2,520 carry the Startup type declared by their contributor, spread over 21 wilayas out of 58. That is the content of a database, not a national figure.

How much has been invested in the startup ecosystem?

We publish no amount. We have no verifiable source for the cumulative capital of the Algeria Startup Fund, for the number of deals closed by business angels or by foreign funds, or for a total invested. Until the people who hold those figures publish them, this page stays silent on the point.

Which sectors dominate Algerian startups?

We publish no sector breakdown. Our dataset carries no sector of activity, and we found no official breakdown published. The percentage split that used to sit here had no source and has been removed.

How many jobs does the startup ecosystem create?

We publish no employment figure, direct or indirect, and no average age, share of women or retention rate. None of those values is established by a source we can verify.

What is the 3-year survival rate?

No survival rate is published for labelled startups in Algeria. The national labelling committee does not publish that figure, and we will not put one forward.

Which obstacles remain in the ecosystem?

What we see on our own files, without putting numbers on it: the same grounds for refusal coming back in front of the labelling committee (innovation poorly demonstrated, a model that does not scale, no traction), bank limits on international transfers, the absence of a SAFE-like vehicle in a SARL or an EURL, and the isolation of founders who discover the codes at the moment they raise.

State of the Algerian Startup Ecosystem 2026

This page publishes only what is verifiable: the legal framework of the four labels, including the Scale-up label created by décret exécutif n° 25-311, and the exact counts of our public ecosystem directory (6,255 records, of which 2,520 are typed Startup, across 21 wilayas), downloadable under a CC BY licence. The ecosystem figures we cannot source were removed on 22 August 2026.

Content verified on August 22, 2026Our methodology

ByÉquipe UpGrowth, UpGrowth Observatory · Algerian startup ecosystem

Published on April 24, 2026Updated on August 22, 2026

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Overview, the Algerian startup ecosystem in 2026

The national labelling framework has counted four labels since décret exécutif n° 25-311 of 1 December 2025, published in Journal officiel n° 81 of 7 December 2025: Innovative Project, Start-up, Incubator and Scale-up. The national labelling committee, created by décret exécutif n° 20-254 of 15 September 2020, grants them and reviews applications filed after a refusal.

This page publishes no national startup count, no invested amount and no employment figure. We found no official publication that establishes them, and a number does not become accurate because it sits in a document titled report. The only figures below are those of our own public directory, which anyone can download and re-count.

The only figures we publish

The type of a record is declared by whoever adds it and is not audited. A record typed Startup is therefore not a company holding the Start-up label granted by the national committee.
The directory covers 21 wilayas out of the 58 the country has. It is not a national census and we do not present it as one.
None of these values is typed by hand: they are derived from the file when the site is built. If the file changes, this page changes at the next generation.

Our ecosystem directory is an open dataset: the file the public map displays can be downloaded as it stands, under a CC BY licence, at https://www.upgrowth.dz/data/entities.json. The three values below are its exact counts, recomputed from that file every time the site is generated. They describe the contents of a directory, not the Algerian economy.

Indicator	Value	What the value counts
Records in the directory	6,255	Every category together
Records typed Startup	2,520	Type declared by the contributor
Wilayas represented	21 of 58	The directory's real coverage

The one confirmed change of framework, the Scale-up label

The Scale-up label was created by décret exécutif n° 25-311 of 1 December 2025 (Journal officiel n° 81 of 7 December 2025), which adds articles 31 bis 2 to 31 bis 7 to décret exécutif n° 20-254. It covers any company incorporated under Algerian law with an innovative business model that shows turnover growth at a rate of at least 20 % over the last three (3) years and allocates at least 3 % of its revenues or capital to research and development. It is granted for four (4) years, renewable.

The decree does not make the Start-up label a prerequisite for the Scale-up label, and it attaches no tax advantage to the Scale-up label: décret exécutif n° 21-170 covers the start-up label and the incubateur label. The same decree sets the Start-up label at four (4) years renewable once and the Incubator label at five (5) years renewable.

What we see blocking founders

Practice observations, taken from our own files. These are not statistics and we do not put numbers on them.

Start-up label: the grounds for refusal we see coming back are always the same, innovation poorly demonstrated, a model that does not scale, a team described too briefly, no traction. Every new pass in front of the committee pushes back access to the schemes reserved for labelled companies.
International transfers: bank limits complicate both collecting from foreign customers and letting a non-resident investor into the capital.
No legal vehicle adapted to successive rounds: the SARL and the EURL know neither SAFE nor vesting, and every entry into the capital goes through an amendment to the articles of association.
Isolation: founders who discover the codes of the ecosystem at the moment they start raising begin with a handicap that nothing makes up for at that stage.

Methodology and verification policy

Texts: décret exécutif n° 20-254 of 15 September 2020 (national labelling committee) and décret exécutif n° 25-311 of 1 December 2025, Journal officiel n° 81 of 7 December 2025, which creates the Scale-up label.
Data: our public directory https://www.upgrowth.dz/data/entities.json, under a CC BY licence, re-counted every time the site is generated.
On 22 August 2026 we removed from this page every ecosystem figure that no source could establish: the sector breakdown, the geographic breakdown, invested amounts, deal counts, direct and indirect jobs, average age, share of women, retention rate, ticket sizes, the number of business angels, and every 2026-2028 projection.
We also removed a methodology note that claimed qualitative interviews with ecosystem operators. We hold no record of those interviews and cannot attest that they took place, so we do not invoke them.
The rule we apply: a figure that cannot be recomputed from a verifiable source is not published. It is not rounded and it is not prefixed with an approximation sign. It is removed.

This page is limited to three categories: what a text published in the Journal officiel says, what our own open dataset contains, and what we observe on our own files, presented as such.

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