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Cleanly sold you time. Then it had to own the laundry.
A laundry app promised New Yorkers a shorter to-do list. Its journey into ByNext shows how much machinery sits behind a simple tap.
Rinse built a laundry business around the hours everyone else went home
A family dry cleaner, a two-hour evening window, and a stubborn preference for predictable service. Rinse turns the weekly laundry pile into a lesson in the economics of convenience.
Cents
Cents is the all-in-one business management platform for the laundry and garment care industry. It pairs point-of-sale software, on-machine payments, pickup-and-delivery logistics, marketing automation and AI customer service into a single system used by more than 4,500 laundromat and dry-cleaning locations. Founded in New York in 2019, Cents has raised roughly $185M, including a $140M Series C in 2026, to modernize an industry of 90,000+ retail laundry businesses that long ran on quarters, paper tickets and hand-written ledgers.