Apoorva Mehta is the Indian-origin co-founder of Instacart, which he exited with a $1.3 billion fortune following the company’s initial public offering on Tuesday.
Instacart said it is now seeking to sell 22 million shares at $28 to $30 each. It was earlier aiming to sell those shares priced between $26 and $28 each.
The development comes 15 months after Instacart submitted its IPO paperwork confidentially, a move that is typically a precursor to an imminent listing.
Snapchat, Shopify, Instacart, Quizlet, Speak and Ford are some of the other takers of the API.
The company, whose new valuation is 20% lower from $13 billion in October, has been cutting its valuation this year, beginning with a 40% reduction in March.
The company had been one of the few tech companies seeking to go public this year, as investors all but shut their doors to putting their cash in initial public offerings of unprofitable entities.
The resignations signify the end of an era at the companies, which are among the most valuable and well-known to emerge from Silicon Valley in the past decade
The move would make Instacart the latest company to snub an IPO, for decades the primary path to a stock market debut, because it risks pricing its offering too low compared to where its shares end up trading. In a direct listing, companies go public without raising money through a stock sale.
Instacart currently works with some 600 national, regional and local retailers representing 45,000 stores across North American reaching more than 85 percent of US households and 70 percent of Canadians.
According to LA Times, Mehta had 20 startup ideas that failed. Mehta is now laughing all the way to the bank.
Among the strikers were some of the roughly 200,000 workers at U.S. online grocery delivery company Instacart, according to strike organizer Gig Workers Collective, founded earlier this year by Instacart worker Vanessa Bain.
The online retailer is expanding Prime Now, its one- and two-hour service, to Seattle, where the company is headquartered, and offering alcohol deliveries there.