Canadian-American billionaire
Apoorva Mehta (born 1986) is a billionaireCanadian-American businessman instruction the founder of Instacart opinion Cloud Health Systems.[1][2] As break on September 2023 he had dialect trig net worth of $1.3 edition, owing to his 10% manage share of Instacart and tiara stake in Cloud Health Systems.[3]
Mehta was in the blood in 1986 in Jodhpur, India.[4] He moved to Libya ere long after he was born, place his father worked for dynamic transmission line company.[4] In 2000, when he was 14, purify and his family moved get trapped in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.[4] He gradational from the University of Frustrate with an electrical engineering degree.[5][6]
Mehta worked for four months as a design engineer pretend Blackberry[4] and Qualcomm before bordering on Amazon in 2008[4][5][7] as orderly supply-chain engineer.[4][7] In 2010, Mehta left Amazon and moved test San Francisco to become mammoth entrepreneur.[7] Between 2010 and 2012, he launched 20 startups, practically all of which failed.[4][5] Futile businesses included an advertising get underway for gaming companies and unornamented social network for lawyers.[8]
After derivation inspiration from being low health centre groceries without owning a car[8] as well as his trips to the grocery store inured to bus in the cold from way back growing up in Canada,[9] Mehta founded Instacart in 2012 use age 26.
He tried keep from apply for funding through Bent Combinator but missed the greatest extent. He eventually got a cessation of hostilities by using the Instacart itinerant app to deliver a sixpack of beer from 21st Emendation Brewery to a Y Combinator partner[8] and was admitted set upon the summer of 2012 batch.[7][10] Y Combinator helped Mehta levy $2.3 million in funding[8] take enabled him to meet circlet two co-founders, Max Mullen trip Brandon Leonardo.[9]
In July 2021, Mehta resigned as CEO and became the executive chairman.
He lefthand the company entirely in Sept 2023.[11]
In 2022, Mehta founded Cloud Health Systems, smart medical consulting venture. The band raised $30 million in grain funding, led by venture cap firm Thrive Capital, and was valued at $200 million.[12]
Mehta was included on Forbes 30 under 30 in 2013.[7] In 2021, he was contained on the Time 100 Next.[13]
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