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Bosta
Bosta is an Egyptian delivery company that picks up packages from online sellers and delivers them to customers across the country, and increasingly across the Middle East.
Bosta is the delivery guy for Egypt's online shopping boom. When a small business sells something on Instagram or a big brand runs a sale on its website, Bosta picks up the package, sorts it, and gets it to the customer's door — often the next day. Founded in 2016 in Cairo, it built its own network of sorting hubs and drivers instead of leaning on the slow, unreliable national post, and that speed and tracking became its selling point.
The company sells more than just a courier run. Sellers get a dashboard to create orders, print labels, and let customers track their parcels. Bosta also handles the tricky part of Egyptian e-commerce: cash on delivery. Most shoppers there pay when the box arrives, not beforehand, so Bosta collects the cash and pays the seller back — a service that builds deep loyalty. It even runs a reverse flow, picking up items customers want to return or exchange. That cash-on-delivery and returns business is a quiet moat. In a market where trust in online payment is still growing, a seller would rather work with a courier who takes the money and hands it back reliably than piece together payment and delivery separately. As Egypt's e-commerce has grown, so has Bosta, expanding into Saudi Arabia and the wider region and adding fulfillment — storing sellers' goods in its warehouses so it can pack and ship orders directly.
To fund that expansion, Bosta has raised money from investors rather than the public markets, including a Series B round reported in the tens of millions of dollars. It is not a household name the way the brands it delivers for are, but it sits underneath a huge share of the country's online orders — the pipes that make "buy now, delivered tomorrow" work for thousands of small sellers who could never build their own delivery fleet.
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