Meet Throne Labs, the Company Making Public Bathrooms a Better Place to Go

After a year of major growth, Jessica Heinzelman’s smart, modular public bathrooms are in 20 cities and counting.

Although she lives in the Bay Area, Jessica Heinzelman was thrilled as she watched a press conference held by Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, near a parkway overpass in January. Mamdani announced that he was committing $4 million to install roughly 20 to 30 new modular public bathrooms across all five boroughs. The city ranks poorly for public restroom access; there is just one bathroom for every 8,500 residents, putting it behind places like San Francisco and Madison, Wisconsin. “In a city that has everything, the one thing that is often impossible to find is a public bathroom,” he said.  

That was music to Heinzelman’s ears, as co-founder and chief operating officer at Throne Labs. Her company produces free-to-use, self-contained bathrooms that can be delivered and set up the same day. The focus on the issue felt like........

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