Retail ecommerce

Orchata

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Orchata is an app where you can get groceries & daily essentials delivered in 20 min in Latin America. All the way from fresh fruits, meat, alcohol, pharmacy, groceries, snacks and top e-commerce brands with no substitutes and at supermarket prices. We launched the service in Mexico and grew it from $0 to $6.3M in revenue and +30k customers.

Founded 2020Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Orchata is an app where you can get groceries & daily essentials delivered in 20 min in Latin America. All the way from fresh fruits, meat, alcohol, pharmacy, groceries, snacks and top e-commerce brands with no substitutes and at supermarket prices.

We launched the service in Mexico and grew it from $0 to $6.3M in revenue and +30k customers.

LATAM grocery is a huge US$ 451B market that is moving online fast. Orchata goes further with all-in-one software for darkstores around the city. We are following the Billion USD playbook that Gopuff built in the US.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
Retail ecommerceConsumer appConsumersConsumerMarketplace

Founders & team

Luis Mario Garcia

Founder/CEO

Co-founder & CEO of Seals AI (S24) AI Employees for Wholesalers & Distributors I am a second-time founder who built a another YC-backed (W20) grocery delivery startup and grew it to $6.3M in revenue and 30K customers. I designed all the software, including Driver, Consumer, and Warehouse Apps. I was in founder mode acquiring customers, operating warehouses, launching cities, recruiting engineers, and fundraising. I personally delivered 1,000 orders to talk to users and build the product.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Javier Gonzalez

Founder

Computer Science graduate. I have been coding since I was 12 years old. At my first company, I built an app that reached 500,000 users by myself. I am a second-time YC-backed founder who built and scaled four complex software apps, think of the DoorDash stack.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
50team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2020 · Source

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Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationsite error
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedMonterrey, N.L., Mexico; N.L., Mexico
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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