17 billion-dollar startups that didn’t exist 5 years ago

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Human Longevity: $1.89 billion

Human Longevity

Founded in 2013, Human Longevity is a San Diego-based company that is working on building the largest comprehensive database of human genomic date to prolong healthy human life. This company harnessed the power of human genomics, informatics, next generation sequencing technologies, and stem cell advances into one.

Instacart: $2 billion

Instacart

Instacart is an online service used to order fresh groceries. After choosing your items from your favorite stores, you schedule a delivery time and they arrive at your door. In 2012, Instacart made a deal with Whole Foods by signing a five-year delivery partnership to make Instacart the exclusive delivery partner for Whole Foods’ perishable business.

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Written by Katie Henderson

Katie Henderson is the Strategy editor at Business Pundit. She writes articles that help business owners, executives, and employees better understand how to run a business and work as effective employees.