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Parametric

Physical businesses that run themselves

Y CombinatorFall 2025ActiveIndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics

What they do

Problem

Physical service businesses like laundromats rely on labor-intensive, error-prone workflows that are costly and hard to staff and scale.

Solution

Parametric builds an autonomous laundromat that uses robotics and redesigned processes to take dirty laundry in and return folded clean laundry with minimal human involvement.

Who it's for

Consumers and businesses that need laundry services and want a fully automated drop-off-to-folded-return experience.

Founders

Cody Swain
Co-Founder & CEO

Led model ROI and offline simulation for recommendations at Facebook. Prior to this, founded a stablecoin wallet company and worked on zk-SNARK identity proofs.

John Newsom
Co-Founder & CTO

Led the self-driving team at Parallel Systems and worked as a researcher at BAIR focused on robotics, world models, and large language models.

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