Founder of a listed tool
Max Mullen
Historical co-founder; now full-time investor, named behind the Instacart Developer Platform API + MCP listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Max 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; now full-time investor, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Apoorva Mehta Historical co-founder and CEO; now Abundance founder/CEO
- Brandon Leonardo Historical co-founder and early engineering lead
- Riddhima Sejpal Senior Staff Software Engineer, CarrotAI / Instacart Developer Platform
- Stefany Bogatan Associate Product Manager
Questions
Who is Max Mullen?
Max Mullen co-founded Instacart, the grocery delivery and pickup marketplace, with Apoorva Mehta and Brandon Leonardo in 2012, through Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch. He previously worked at several startups, including the interactive agency Schematic, which WPP acquired. He studied entrepreneurship and cinematic arts at the University of Southern California.
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 Max'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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