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Cents

40 Wooster St, New York City, New York, 10013, United States

Overview

Cents offers an all-in-one platform for laundry businesses combining AI-native business management software, proprietary hardware, and integrated payments. The company provides tools including point-of-sale systems, on-machine payments, marketing automation, AI customer service, and pickup & delivery services. Cents is trusted by over 4,500 laundromat locations and processes $1 billion in payments annually. The firm positions itself as the leading operating system for laundromats, dry cleaners, and multi-family laundry operations. With the Series C, Cents plans to accelerate its AI-powered product suite, expand its product line, invest in payment hardware infrastructure, and enhance support and customer experience. The company emphasizes partnerships with route operators and equipment distributors as part of its go-to-market strategy.

Total raised
$180M
Funding rounds
3
Latest round
Series C
Latest activity
Mar 2026

Industries

  • Business Process Automation (BPA)
  • Enterprise Software
  • Point of Sale
  • SaaS
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Recent funding

  1. Series C

    Mar 2026

    $140M

  2. Series B

    Aug 2024

    $40M

Team

  • Alexander Jekowsky

    Co-Founder & CEO

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  • Gilli Cherrin

    Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

  • Ethan Durham

    VP of Engineering

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  • Lawrence Herman

    Chief Financial Officer

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