Clean Ventures

What Clean Ventures does

Clean Ventures is a New York-based venture capital fund that invests exclusively in growth-stage companies operating in the laundry industry. The firm self-describes as the only dedicated venture capital vehicle in this vertical and operates an incubator-investor model, providing portfolio companies with capital alongside strategic mentorship, industry expertise, and operational synergies sourced from a network of industry affiliates that collectively generate more than $75 million in revenue. The fund's stated differentiators are 25+ years of accumulated industry experience, deep incumbent relationships, and the ability to offer portfolio companies immediate go-to-market traction through affiliated operators.

The fund's stated investment thesis targets what it characterizes as an "underdeveloped" and historically fragmented laundry industry, with emphasis on transforming customer patterns, rapid industry growth, adoption of improved technology solutions, novel wash-and-fold models, and the build-out of customer and industry data. Its go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven: deal sourcing relies on direct outreach within the laundry industry rather than broad marketing, leveraging the principals' incumbency to identify targets. As a VC fund, revenue mechanics are derived from equity appreciation and carried interest on portfolio exits rather than disclosed product pricing.

Public information on the portfolio is limited: one disclosed investment is Jeff (announced 2021-05-14), a technology-driven laundry startup that the fund backed to support its expansion into the United States. No fund size, AUM, LP base, management team roster, total portfolio count, or follow-on funding cadence is disclosed in available sources, which constrains independent verification of scale and momentum.

Name

Clean Ventures

Legal name

Clean Ventures

Website

https://cleanventurefund.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Clean Ventures is a New York-based venture capital fund that exclusively invests in growth-stage companies disrupting the laundry industry, providing capital, mentorship, and industry synergies under an incubator-investor model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Venture Capital

NAICS

Miscellaneous Financial Investment Activities (523999), Other Investment Pools and Funds (5259)

akta.pro primary industry

Venture Studios / Company Builders (FSANAAAH)

Keywords

• Venture capital fund
• Laundry industry investing
• Growth-stage investments
• Startup incubator investing
• Industry-focused venture capital

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Venture Capital Returns: Clean Ventures generates returns through equity investments in growth-stage laundry industry companies. As a dedicated VC fund, they earn returns through portfolio company exits, equity appreciation, and carried interest on successful investments.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Clean Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in growth-stage companies disrupting and improving the laundry industry. The fund operates under an incubator-investor model, providing capital deployment alongside strategic support, industry expertise, and synergies with portfolio companies, leveraging 25+ years of industry experience.

Product overview

Clean Ventures operates as a single investment vehicle — the Clean Ventures Fund — which is the only dedicated venture capital fund in the laundry industry. The fund follows an incubator-investor model, providing capital and strategic support to growth-stage companies while leveraging over 25 years of industry experience and relationships with industry affiliates generating over $75 million in revenue.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Clean Ventures Fund

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Antler: Global venture studio that builds and backs early-stage companies with an incubator-style model. Comparable to Clean Ventures as a structured, hands-on investor that co-creates companies rather than acting purely as a financial backer.
• Entrepreneur First: Talent-first venture builder that invests in and incubates startups from inception. Closely mirrors Clean Ventures' incubator-investor hybrid, providing both capital and operational scaffolding to portfolio founders.
• Highline Beta: Corporate venture studio that partners with Fortune 500 companies to build new ventures. Comparable as a venture studio that combines operating support with capital deployment, similar to Clean Ventures' affiliate-backed approach.
• Science Inc. Operating venture studio that incubates, funds, and scales consumer internet companies. Comparable as a studio-led investor that retains operating involvement, analogous to Clean Ventures' industry-operator model.
• Mach49: Venture builder that helps large corporations launch and grow new businesses. Comparable to Clean Ventures' incubator-investor model where corporate or industry affiliates serve as a distribution platform for new ventures.
• Prehype: Venture studio and seed investor that co-creates startups with founders. Comparable to Clean Ventures in providing structured incubation alongside investment capital.
• Founders Factory: Global venture studio that builds and invests in startups across multiple verticals. Comparable to Clean Ventures in running a structured studio program that pairs capital with operating support.
• Atomic: Venture studio that co-founds and funds companies from inception, with deep operating involvement. Closely parallels Clean Ventures' thesis that studio-style support outperforms pure financial investing in underdeveloped categories.

Emerging players

• Rinse: Tech-enabled laundry and dry-cleaning delivery service. Relevant as a representative of the type of growth-stage, technology-driven laundry company Clean Ventures invests in.
• Poplin: On-demand laundry services startup serving U.S. markets. Comparable as a tech-enabled laundry operator that fits Clean Ventures' investment thesis of disrupting a fragmented industry.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/CleanVentFund
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cleanventfund

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A

Investments3 records

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