Lukas, World Startup Report team here. We worked together with the Economist putting this together.

We did look at private/public AND also acquired companies (in case of Allegro).

Would you have a source for the acquisition information? Keep in mind that we looked at 3 companies per country in which case it could have only been coincidence. Our goal was to show the relative extent of what is possible in different countries rather than to provide an exact estimate of each company.