Laundry doesn’t usually make headlines. It doesn’t attract hype cycles, speculative capital, or founders chasing the next billion-dollar idea. And yet, globally, the laundry and dry-cleaning industry is worth hundreds of billions (projected to surpass $100 billion within the next decade) — still largely fragmented, offline, and inefficient. It’s the kind of space most startups usually ignore. That’s exactly what drew Bulgarian Deyan Dimitrov, CEO and co-founder of UK-based Laundryheap, to it. “We focused on the unexciting things,” he says. “And...
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Once dubbed the “Czech Silicon Valley,” Brno is moving beyond comparison. With a billion-euro R&D […]
May is here, and once again, we are preparing for to go to the Austrian […]
Laundry doesn’t usually make headlines. It doesn’t attract hype cycles, speculative capital, or founders chasing […]
