Company type | Private company |
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Industry | Personal Services |
Founded | 2013 |
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Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
Area served | Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New Jersey, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Washington D.C. |
Services | Laundry and dry cleaning services |
Website | www |
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Rinse, Inc., is an American on-demand laundry and dry cleaning services company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company offers clothing pickup and delivery service.
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Rinse was founded in 2013 by entrepreneurs and Dartmouth College friends James Joun and Ajay Prakash. Joun was previously helping his parents in their dry cleaning storefront. [2] After launching in San Francisco, the company expanded to California and raised $3.5 million in seed funding in June 2015. [3]
In 2016, Rinse purchased the assets of Washio, shortly after the Los Angeles-based company shut operations. [4] The company launched in New York City by acquiring FlyCleaners for an undisclosed amount in 2022. [5] [6] Other acquisitions include Cleanly's San Francisco operations in 2019, South Bay upstart OffToYou in 2020, Chicago-based dry cleaning startup Dryv in 2020, Los Angeles-based Butlerbox in 2021, New York-based laundry startup Room Service Laundry in 2022, and Seattle-based laundry startup Loopie in 2024. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
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