Instant Pot is a brand of multicookers manufactured by Instant Pot Brands. The multicookers are electronically controlled, combined pressure cookers and slow cookers.
The original cookers were marketed as 6-in-1 appliances designed to consolidate the cooking and preparing of food to one device. The brand later expanded to include non-pressure slow cookers which can be left on for 8 hours or more, sous-vide immersion circulators, blenders, air fryers and rice cookers.
Instant Pot is owned by the private equity firm Centre Lane Partners.[2]
History
In 2009, Robert Wang and two partners, both former colleagues at Nortel in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, started what would become Instant Pot. Both partners left, but he was soon joined by friends Yi Qin and Dongjun Wang, who had also previously worked in the region's tech sector, both at BlackBerry (RIM).[3][4]