Convinced of the growth potential of e-commerce in Africa, he is considering ways to contribute to the emergence of this sector. He is developing a technological solution with his friends to make life easier for e-commerce merchants.

Walid Laribi (photo) leads Maystro Delivery, an Algerian startup that helps e-commerce businesses reach their objectives by taking care of their logistics from start to finish.

Maystro Delivery, founded in 2019 by Walid Laribi, Lagrid Abdelhalim, and Hebbar Walid Choukri, is a digital platform that links e-commerce store owners with delivery staff. Its main goal is to manage delivery logistics for its partner firms, freeing them to concentrate on their primary operations.

The company, with branches in Algeria and Tunisia, has a workforce of over 500 people and runs 16 warehouses throughout the region. With the support of research and development teams, it aspires to be the go-to logistics provider for e-commerce in the region. Its delivery solutions have already been adopted by over 2,000 businesses.

Walid Laribi earned an information systems degree in 2013 from the National Higher School of Computer Science in Algeria. He gained experience through internships at Inode, an Algerian firm specializing in Linux solutions, and GPCdz, a company focused on processing geographical data.

In 2012, he took on the role of director of the Google Developer Group in Algiers. He joined Nokia as a Network Operations Center (NOC) engineer in 2014 and transitioned to a presales engineer role the next year. He was promoted to sales solutions manager within the same company in 2017. In June 2020, he chose to fully commit to Maystro Delivery, leaving his position at Nokia.

Melchior Koba