Instacart Raises $8.5 Million to Offer Same-Day Grocery Deliveries Nationwide

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Name: Instacart

One-Liner Pitch: Instacart aims to solve the problem of same-day grocery deliveries.

Why It's Taking Off: The startup crowdsources grocery deliveries to cut down the operational costs and limitations that have plagued other same-day delivery services

Amazon has operated a for the past six years, and recently expanded into its second city. Now, one startup thinks it can do a better job — and it just happens to be run by a former Amazon employee