COMPANY PROFILE

Instacart

Leader in online grocery delivery offering same-day delivery and pickup services to bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada

San Francisco, United StatesFounded 2012eCommerce & Marketplaces

Valuation $9.83B Market cap · Aug/2026

Revenue $4.20B Latest reported FY

EBITDA $597M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Status: Listed
Founded: 2012
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Listing: IPO 2023
Sector: eCommerce & Marketplaces
Power Law: Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Knowledge graph

News, research, reports and resources connected to this company by Dealroom

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Investors

32 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed9 investors entered at this stage

Series A2 investors entered at this stage

Series B and later21 investors entered at this stage

Talent

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Employees mapped 25,066 incl. 231 AI specialists

Founders /100 quality score

Key operators 132 quality /100

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 of 12 startups shown

Former Instacart employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

BSBeacon SoftwareEst. 2024

Nilam GanenthiranCanada

Signal score93

Dyna RoboticsEst. 2024

York YangUnited States

Signal score93

VLVibranium LabsEst. 2024

Charles KimUnited States

Signal score92

AscendEst. 2021

AWAndrew Wynn.United States

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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country

Workforce by country

41 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States90.2%

🇨🇦 Canada8.3%

🇮🇳 India0.3%

🇦🇺 Australia0.2%

🇿🇦 South Africa0.1%

Top 5 of 41 shown

Web traffic by country

46M monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States96.6%

🇨🇦 Canada1.1%

🇲🇽 Mexico0.2%

🇵🇭 Philippines0.1%

🇮🇳 India0.1%

Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value

$79M

700 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where Instacart was the backer or acquirer, 2015–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

8 deals across Instacart's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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Where Instacart deploys vs peers

Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

Compare against

Instacart's portfolio, mapped.

Stage

Period

8 of 8 deals

Market sentiment

Posts on X, past 7 days

An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Instacart on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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