1 hour delivery of groceries and more from Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Safeway, Costco, and more.
On Thursday, the $2 billion-valued Instacart announced changes to its online storefront. For the first time, its app and website will display the price difference, if any, on products sold both on Instacart and in the physical store where Instacart personal shoppers go to fulfill orders.
Instacart, a San Francisco-based company that provides grocery delivery services, has raised nearly $210 million in a new round of funding according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday.
Whole Foods this week credited grocery delivery service Instacart for a jump in sales, offering kudos to the startup as competition in the delivery space really heats up.
Whole Foods says Instacart digital shopping carts are 2.5 times the size of their brick-and-mortar counterparts.
Technology entrepreneurs have revolutionized the way people shop for clothing, find vacation rentals and flag down taxis. Now they’re shaking up the world of eating. With partnerships like that between Whole Foods Market Inc. and San Francisco start-up Instacart to deliver groceries to shoppers’ doorsteps, there is no longer a need to pour millions into warehouses, delivery trucks or inventory.
Groceries are a competitive business with paper-thin margins. Apoorva Mehta believes his startup, Instacart, can succeed where others have struggled or failed. All it takes, he says, is sophisticated math – and a platoon of personal shoppers.
Instacart announced today that it has launched Boulder’s first one-hour grcoery delivery service. Beginning today, customers can order virtually any items carried in their neighborhood Costco, King Scoopers, and Whole Foods Market stores and have them delivered in as little as one hour.
Instacart announced that it will has launched Houston’s first one-hour grocery delivery service, the 14th city in the company’s planned expansion to 17 major U.S. cities by the end of the year. Starting today, Instacart customers in Houston can order groceries from both Whole Foods Market and H-E-B. Additional stores will be added in the coming weeks, and customers can combine items from multiple stores into one order.
Grocery delivery service Instacart launched today in the Rose City, giving customers a way to get groceries delivered form Whole Foods, Costco, and Uwajimaya in an hour. This is the 13th market for San Francisco-based Instacart, which plans on expanding to 17 cities by the end of the year.
Instacart, currently the most well funded and fastest growing startup in the emerging food space, holds the potential to be the most powerful consumer-facing food ecosystem in the market.
Instacart, a two-year-old grocery delivery company, announced a $44 million round of financing on Monday led by Andreessen Horowitz. Three venture capital firms that previously invested in the company, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures and Canaan Partners, participated in the latest round.
On-demand grocery delivery startup Instacart wants to make its service available in every city in the United States. To make that happen, it’s raised $44 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Along with the funding, a16z partner Jeff Jordan will be joining the company’s board.
The future of grocery delivery is arriving ahead of schedule. Instacart, the San Francisco startup that uses a distributed network of smartphone-equipped shoppers to provide home delivery from supermarkets in as little as an hour, has raised $44 million in new funding, bringing the total amount of capital it has raised to $55 million.
Instacart got started in San Francisco in 2012, offering one to two hour delivery from local grocery stores. It expanded to Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C. and now Philadelphia and hopes to be in 10 U.S. cities by the end of 2014.
Instacart exemplifies the lean strategy of today’s tech startups, which are cautious to avoid the excesses of the first dotcom crash. Working with such chains as Whole Foods and Costco, as well as local independent grocers like Berkeley Bowl, Instacart streams inventory lists from brick-and-mortar stores to its mobile app. The company recently expanded into Chicago and Boston.
On a mission to prove that consumers will pay to have bread and milk delivered to their front door, Instacart is expanding across the U.S. as it aims to right the wrongs of years of failed grocery delivery ventures.
Instacart and Yummly are partnering to enable those on the Yummly iOS app to pick out recipes and them delivered via Instacart within an hour.
The company is in the process of signing a lease for its local office, in Cambridge’s Central Square. Instacart has already hired one person for its Boston operations, and plans to add two more. Initially, Instacart will offer groceries available at Shaw’s and will eventually expand to offer items from Whole Foods, Costco and other stores.
Shoppers are camped out in store parking lots. Retailers are fighting to outdo one another to see who can open up the earliest. The Black Friday mayhem is officially under way, but at least one thing is a little different this year: more same-day delivery options.
At least once a week, someone evangelizes the glories of Costco to us. Bulk foods, good prices, fair labor practices; what’s not to love? The one problem: we don’t have a membership. Yeah, it’s easy to get, but that one extra step is enough to throw us off. Luckily, Instacart has come to the rescue.
In a conversation at the GMIC mobile conference this week, Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham gave the most recent stats on the seed stage incubator. Of the 511 companies that had passed through YC prior to its most recent Summer 2013 class, 306 had valuations tied to them. The total value of those companies is now $13.7 billion, up $2 billion since Graham’s last update on the number in June.
Instacart, the service that dispatches “personal shoppers” to collect groceries and deliver them to homes that same day, said Wednesday it has expanded to several more North Side neighborhoods and added Costco to its list of stores.
There is a new grocery shopping service that promises to make your life easier. Shoppers will go to multiple stores so you don’t have to. However, 7 On Your Side wanted to know if it really delivered on its promise. With a few clicks of your mouse you can do all your online shopping in moments, but does it really work?
Today Instacart, a grocery delivery service, added an initial set of recipes to its service, helping customers purchase groups of items that combine into finished dishes
When same-day grocery-delivery startup Instacart raised its recent $8.5 million Series A round, it named Sequoia Capital’s Michael Moritz to its board.
Grocery delivery service Instacart added its first new major market, expanding to Chicago.
Instacart raised $2.3 million from Canaan Partners and Khosla Ventures to be the Amazon.com of grocery delivery.
Instacart is not the only startup attacking same-day delivery, considered a “holy grail” in technology, but it’s one that certainly shows an enormous amount of promise.
Instacart is a mobile app that lets you buy groceries from your phone and have them delivered to your door within an hour.
Instacart, a current Y Combinator company that came out of stealth mode earlier this month, has been letting users in an invite-only beta buy groceries with quick delivery through its iPhone app for some time.
While Instacart eventually wants to be Amazon.com with one-hour delivery for anything and everything, the startup is currently focusing on groceries.
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