Instacart is a mobile app that lets you buy groceries from your phone and have them delivered to your door within an hour.
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Founder Apoorva Mehta’s background (he worked at Amazon) inspired him to make the grocery-delivery process more convenient and efficient. The company has already seen rapid growth, and people use the app an average 1.2 times a week.
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Mehta is one of the only single founder companies currently participating in YCombinator. He was a late addition to the current class, receiving an invitation through a non-traditional route: he had beer delivered via Instacart to a YC partner, who then invited him in for a meeting.
The service is so far available three cities in Northern California — San Francisco, Mountain View, and Palo Alto — between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m.
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