The NYC-born and Y Combinator-backed service delivery startup Cleanly is expanding to D.C. The company was launched in Manhattan before expanded to Brooklyn, and now has its sights set on conquering the nation’s capital.

When cofounder Tom Harari moved to NYC about six years ago he found himself wondering, How the hell does anyone get laundry done in New York? And in a city where not many apartments are large enough to feature in-unit laundry machines, this is a great question.

So Harari and his cofounder, Itay Forer, started a company to alleviate this pain point. Beginning with one neighborhood on the Upper West Side and expanding from there, Cleanly offered to pick up customers laundry and dry cleaning, bring it to a wholesale cleaner where the washing and cleaning would take place, and then deliver it back the next day, folded and ready to wear.

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