Michel Krieger (born March 4, 1986) is a Brazilian[1] entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram along with Kevin Systrom, and served as its CTO.

Krieger was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and moved to California in 2004 to attend Stanford University.

[7] While at Stanford, where he majored in symbolic systems, he crossed paths with Kevin Systrom, and together they co-founded Instagram in 2010.

One of the stories related to Instagram’s early days that Krieger recalled is:One time I woke up and there was an email saying that the site went down, and I was like, who fixed it?

The funds are to support operations, with 90% allocated to grants identified and recommended through the Open Philanthropy Project process.