Report: Instacart raising $100M at $2B valuation

Dec 5, 2014, 2:46pm PST

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CEO and founder Apoorva Mehta’s grocery delivery service Instacart is part of a growing crowd of ultra-lean, tech-enabled startups that are changing how goods and services are delivered.

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San Francisco-based home delivery service Instacart is near closing a more than $100 million funding round that will value the 2-year-old company at $2 billion, sources told TechCrunch.

TechCrunch said sources indicate that Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers may be the lead investor in the new round.

Instacart, led by co-founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta, launched two years ago and now operates in 10 cities in the U.S.

The latest round will bring Instacart's total raised to date to $154.8 million. Investors have included Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Canaan Partners, Y Combinator boss Sam Altman and Box founder Aaron Levie.

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Marlize is the digital producer for the San Francisco Business Times.

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