Apoorva Mehta

About Apoorva Mehta

Apoorva Mehta is the executive chairman and founder of Instacart, a San Francisco-based grocery delivery firm most recently valued at $13 billion.

Born in India, Apoorva lived in Libya before moving to Canada, where he eventually studied engineering at the University of Waterloo.

He worked as an engineer at Blackberry, Qualcomm and Amazon before leaving his job to be an entrepreneur in 2010.

He came up with ideas for around 20 products (none worked out) before starting Instacart in 2012.

With Instacart, customers order groceries online from brick and mortar stores, then they are packed and delivered by an Instacart shopper.