Instacart

Instacart, the leading grocery technology company in North America, works with grocers and retailers to transform how people shop. The company partners with more than 1,200 national, regional, and local retail banners to facilitate online shopping, delivery and pickup services from more than 80,000 stores across North America on the Instacart Marketplace. Instacart makes it possible for millions of people to get the groceries they need from the retailers they love, and for approximately 600,000 Instacart shoppers to earn by picking, packing and delivering orders on their own flexible schedule. The Instacart Platform offers retailers a suite of enterprise-grade technology products and services to power their e-commerce experiences, fulfill orders, digitize brick-and-mortar stores, provide advertising services, and glean insights. With Instacart Ads, thousands of CPG brands – from category leaders to emerging brands – partner with the company to connect directly with consumers online, right at the point of purchase. With Instacart Health, the company is providing tools to increase nutrition security, make healthy choices easier for consumers, and expand the role that food can play in improving health outcomes. For more information, visit www.instacart.com/company, and to start shopping, visit www.instacart.com.
Founding Year
2012
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San Francisco
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United States
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Total Funding Amount
$2,534.49M
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Sequoia Capital

Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.
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Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner. The firm is focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies.
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Haystack

Venture capital firm that backs up outlier founders at the earliest stages.
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Thrive Capital

Focuses on building and investing in the software and technology-enabled companies.
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FundersClub

Both invests in companies and runs online fundraising processes on their site.
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Pegasus Tech Ventures

Pegasus Tech Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based global venture capital firm.
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Quiet Capital

Move the world further, faster, with quiet capital by investing in technology businesses early to create long-term value.
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General Catalyst

We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.
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SVA

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Initialized Capital

Early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
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Tiger Global Management

Aims to generate world-class investment returns over the long term in a way that makes our partners and portfolio companies proud, as they build a unique, global investment platform.
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Coatue

Privately owned hedge fund founded in 1999 investing across different sectors.
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Khosla Ventures

Broadly, a venture we back offers one or more of the factors: 1. Significant technology or business model innovation 2. “Black Swan” ideas with significant upside or a significantly better mousetrap 3. Large markets, either existing or newly enabled by the innovation at hand 4. Short innovation cycles 5. Upfront risk
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Comcast Ventures

Comcast Ventures partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs building transformative consumer and enterprise companies.
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Y Combinator

Twice a year YC invests $500,000 per company in a large number of startups. They work intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.
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Investors that Investested

Fabrice Grinda

Founding Partner, FJ Labs
Formerly Co-Founder and Co-CEO of OLX, the largest classifieds site in Russia, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Portugal and many other markets. Prior to OLX, he was the CEO and founder of Zingy, a mobile content company. Previously worked as a management consultant for McKinsey Holds a BA in Economics from Princeton
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Kris Fredrickson

Managing Partner, Coatue
Responsible for the firm’s growth investing business. Focuses primarily on consumer, fintech, and crypto.
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Adeyemi Ajao

Managing Partner, Base10 Partners
Previously, Adeyemi "Ade" was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and a founding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B). While at Workday, Ade led launch to Workday Ventures, the first fund focused on Applied AI for Enterprise Software and was VP of Technology Strategy.
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Jonathan Abrams

Co-Founder & General Partner, 8-Bit Capital
Prior to co-founding 8-Bit Capital, Jonathan was the founder of the professional news discovery service Nuzzel, which was named one of the best apps of the year by Google Play, the New York Times, and Time Magazine. Jonathan was the founder of the pioneering social networking service Friendster, which inspired the modern social networking industry. Jonathan is the inventor of multiple fundamental patents on social networking which are now owned by Facebook. Previously, Jonathan was a software engineer at Netscape and Nortel. Jonathan is also a co-founder and Managing Partner of Founders Den, San Francisco’s favorite workspace and community for startups and investors, which has been home to many successful startups and top venture firms.
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Aashay Sanghvi

Principal, Haystack
Aashay works on all investment activity at Haystack, from identifying founders to helping portfolio companies post-investment. Prior to Haystack, Aashay was an undergraduate at Harvard, where he studied economics and history.
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Alfred Lin

Partner, Sequoia Capital
An operator fortunate enough to help teams scale three companies from the formidable founding stages to profitable businesses and to successful exits. An applied mathematician and statistician by training.
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Jeff Jordan

General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Jeff was previously CEO and then executive chairman of OpenTable, where he led the company during a period of accelerated domestic and international growth and oversaw its initial public offering during one of the longest tech IPO droughts in recent history. Prior to OpenTable, Jeff was Senior Vice President and General Manager of eBay North America where he oversaw eBay's early growth into one of the Internet's leading commerce brands.
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Hrach Simonian

General Partner, Canaan Partners
An engineer-turned-investor who helped build Canaan West Coast. Whether investing in consumer or enterprise tech, Hrach looks for the marketplace elements and how to make them efficient. Previously, Hrach was an Associate at Rutberg & Company and a laser researcher at Northrop Grumman. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.
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Kyle Doherty

Managing Director, General Catalyst
Began career as an equity analyst immersed in the growth possibilities for tech companies that were already valued at tens of billions of dollars. Later focused on consumer internet investments at VC firm Morgenthaler and then joined Coatue Management, where he launched their private investment practice. Studied economics and finance at MIT and went on to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Paul Graham

Founder, Y Combinator
Paul Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first SaaS company, which in 1998 became Yahoo Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.
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Michael Seibel

Managing Director, Early Stage and Group Partner, Y Combinator
Previously a co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv from 2007 2011 and the co-founder and CEO of Socialcam in 2012. Graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science.
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Ihar Mahaniok

Managing Partner, Geek Ventures
Prominent startup advisor and investor with stellar track record, invested in 87 companies in total, including several unicorns Experienced engineering executive
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