Founder of a listed tool
Apoorva Mehta
Historical co-founder and CEO; now Abundance founder/CEO, named behind the Instacart Developer Platform API + MCP listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Apoorva builds
Instacart Developer Platform API + MCP D · Shopping, returns & refunds
The Instacart Developer Platform API and its hosted MCP server turn a recipe or shopping list into an Instacart Marketplace page, where the person picks a store and checks out. It also finds nearby retailers by postal code.
Historical co-founder and CEO; now Abundance founder/CEO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Brandon Leonardo Historical co-founder and early engineering lead
- Max Mullen Historical co-founder; now full-time investor
- Riddhima Sejpal Senior Staff Software Engineer, CarrotAI / Instacart Developer Platform
- Stefany Bogatan Associate Product Manager
Questions
Who is Apoorva Mehta?
Apoorva Mehta co-founded Instacart, the grocery delivery and pickup marketplace, in 2012 with Max Mullen and Brandon Leonardo, and was its founding CEO and chairman. The company went through Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch. An engineering graduate of the University of Waterloo, he previously worked at BlackBerry, Qualcomm and Amazon.
What does Maplebear Inc. (Instacart) make?
Anchor Terminal lists Instacart Developer Platform API + MCP from Maplebear Inc. (Instacart). The Instacart Developer Platform API and its hosted MCP server turn a recipe or shopping list into an Instacart Marketplace page, where the person picks a store and checks out. It also finds nearby retailers by postal code.
How are Apoorva's tools graded?
Instacart Developer Platform API + MCP is graded D, 48.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (15)
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/22796-apoorva-mehta
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/instacart
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/apoorvamehta/
- https://x.com/apoorva_mehta
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/25111-max-mullen
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxmullen/
- https://x.com/max
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/21133-brandon-leonardo
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardo/
- https://x.com/shiftb
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rsejpal
- https://ca.linkedin.com/in/stefany-bogatan
- https://company.instacart.com
- https://docs.instacart.com/support/request_technical_support
- https://docs.instacart.com/developer_platform_api
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