North Brooklyn startup FlyCleaners recently announced that it has raised about $2 million in seed funding from New York-based venture capital firm Zelkova Ventures and undisclosed angel investors.
According to TechCrunch, FlyCleaners picks up your laundry, cleans it, and drops it off on-demand. FlyCleaners can be summoned via its iOS and Android mobile app and is available any time between 6:00 AM and midnight for 7 days a week, its website said.
FlyCleaners chief executive officer David Salama told TechCrunch that the startup is working with local dry cleaners and laundromats for the actual cleaning. FlyCleaners hires its own "Fly Guys" for laundry pickup and delivery and its own customer service agents.
Salama said that FlyCleaners looks to expand to Manhattan and more neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Mobile-based laundry services already on the market like Wash.io and Prim are currently limited geographically, the report said.
Zelkova Ventures is an early-stage companies investor founded in 2007. It has invested in 43 startups in the software services, Internet technologies, environmental technologies and consumer products sectors since 2009, based on a profile by CrunchBase.
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