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Instacart

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San Francisco, CA, USAFounded 20123,000+ employeesLate Stage raisedIPOCART
Last round: private equity · $232M · Nov 2021(19 rounds total)
4 layoff events · Last: Feb 2024
Marketplace for grocery delivery and pickup
Backed by(45 investors)
Sequoia CapitalFidelityD1 Capital PartnersAndreessen HorowitzT. Rowe PriceCoatueDST GlobalGeneral CatalystKleiner PerkinsTiger Global ManagementValiant Peregrine FundWhole Foods MarketY CombinatorCogito CapitalUnanimous Capital

Instacart is a grocery delivery startup that delivers in as short as an hour. It focuses on delivering groceries and home essentials, Instacart already has over 500,000 items from local stores in its catalogue. Customers can choose from a variety of local stores including Safeway, Whole Foods, Super Fresh, Harris Teeter, Shaw's, Mariano's, Jewel-Osco, Stanley's, and Costco. Customers can mix items from multiple stores into one order.

YC S12

About the Company

Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Instacart’s same-day delivery and pickup services bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada in as fast as an hour. Since its founding in 2012, Instacart has become an essential service for millions of families, while also serving as an immediate, flexible earnings opportunity for hundreds of thousands of shoppers across North America. The company partners with more than 350 retailers and delivers from more than 25,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Today, Instacart is accessible to more than 85% of households in the U.S. and more than 70% of households in Canada.

Tech Stack

From a technology point of view, our platform is complex, rapidly scaling and processing millions of transactions in real-time all of the time. Our technology coupled with operational expertise enables Instacart to deliver fresh groceries in as little as an hour. We use a modern stack including Ruby/Rails, Python, React and many more technologies.

Founders

Brandon Leonardo
Brandon Leonardo

Brandon is currently Grocery Hacker and a Co-Founder of Instacart, the same-day grocery delivery service. Brandon built the early versions of the Instacart app, and now leads the Engineering team that works on Growth. Prior to joining Instacart, Brandon held senior engineering roles at a number of other startups including AngelList, Webs and StartupBus. He holds a BS in Computer Science from SJSU and currently lives in Redwood City.

Apoorva Mehta
Apoorva Mehta

Apoorva Mehta is an Indian-born American entrepreneur. He is the Founder and Chairman of the San Francisco-based on-demand online grocery shop 'Instacart.' Apoorva co-founded this venture along with Max Mullen and Brandon Leonardo in 2012. An engineering graduate from the 'University of Waterloo,' Apoorva worked for companies such as 'Blackberry,' ‘Qualcomm,’ and 'Amazon,' before he became an entrepreneur.

Max Mullen
Max Mullen

Max is the Co-Founder of Instacart. He started the company with two co-founders in 2012. Previously, he's worked for several startups including Schematic, an award-winning interactive agency which was acquired by WPP. Max is originally from Los Angeles where he graduated from the University of Southern California, studying entrepreneurship and cinematic arts.

Open Positions at Instacart (127 Jobs)

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Associate HR Business Partner
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Associate HR Business Partner
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Expansions Program Manager
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Expansions Program Manager
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Trust & Safety Specialist, Critical Response
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Senior Commercial Enablement Associate
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Data Engineering Manager, Core DE & Core Experience
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Staff Content Designer - Meals and Health
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Staff Content Designer - Meals and Health
Canada - Remote (ON, AB, BC, or NS Only)C$198K - C$209K Full Time
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Staff Technical Program Manager, Core Experience
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Staff Program Manager, Security & IT
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Staff Engineer, Computer Vision/AI
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Software Engineering Manager, Ads Manager
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Senior Technical Project Manager
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Senior Technical Project Manager
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