FEATURED
ENDEAVOR
ENTREPRENEURS
IDRISS AL RIFAI
Founder and CEO, Fetchr
Idriss Al Rifai is an entrepreneur passionate about disrupting the Middle
East retail market with technologies and customer-centric services that
enable the growth of e-commerce in the region. Idriss has developed and
optimized a last mile delivery solution specifically for the e-commerce
needs and requirements in the Middle East.
In 2012, Idriss founded Fetchr which has evolved to become a full end-to-
end logistic solution, backed by technology, for e-commerce companies,
regional players, social media sellers as well as SMBs in the MENA region. Fetchr is also the first company
in MENA to raise $52M in funding to date ($11M Series A and $41M Series B), led by a top tier Silicon Valley
VC, New Enterprise Associates. Idriss's goal is to empower all deliveries through technology in emerging
markets.
Previously Idriss worked for MarkaVIP, a leading ecommerce player in the MENA region, where he headed
the operations and built an in-house logistics department for the company to expedite deliveries. Prior to
this he worked as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
Idriss holds an MBA from University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is also a Rath and Fulbright
scholar and Endeavor entrepreneur.
