Apoorva Mehta

Apoorva Mehta

Canadian-American billionaire

Apoorva Mehta (born 1986) is a billionaire Canadian-American businessman and the founder of Instacart and Cloud Health Systems. As of September 2023 he had a net worth of $1.3 billion, owing to his 10% ownership share of Instacart and his stake in Cloud Health Systems.2

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Born 1986.1

Companies

Early life and education

Mehta was born in 1986 in Jodhpur, India. He moved to Libya shortly after he was born, where his father worked for electric transmission line company. In 2000, when he was 14, he and his family moved to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He graduated from the University of Waterloo with an electrical engineering degree.

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Career

Occupation: business executive.4

Early career

Mehta worked for four months as a design engineer at Blackberry and Qualcomm before joining Amazon in 2008 as a supply-chain engineer. In 2010, Mehta left Amazon and moved to San Francisco to become an entrepreneur. Between 2010 and 2012, he launched 20 startups, almost all of which failed. Failed businesses included an advertising startup for gaming companies and a social network for lawyers.

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Personal life

  • CitizenshipIndia, Canada5

Cloud Health Systems

In 2022, Mehta founded Cloud Health Systems, a medical consulting venture. The company raised $30 million in seed funding, led by venture capital firm Thrive Capital, and was valued at $200 million.

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