Lamina Labs — Startup Profile

Near-real-time video infrastructure for LLMs

HQ: San Francisco, CA | Founded: 2025 | Employees: 2 | Stage: Seed | Website: https://laminalabs.ai

About

Lamina Labs is building infrastructure for near-real-time structured video generation for LLMs. Most AI video is built for cinematic clips. Lamina is built for useful videos that teach and explain. Their first product, Simi, turns prompts, documents, and AI answers into whiteboard-style teaching videos in seconds. Their goal is to make video the default interface for AI communication.

The Take

Lamina Labs provides innovative video infrastructure solutions tailored for large language models.

Key Metrics

STAGE: Seed
EMPLOYEES: 2
FOUNDED: 2025
HQ: San Francisco, CA
VALUATION: Undisclosed
FUNDING (BACKERS): Y Combinator (P26)

Funding Rounds

Round: Undisclosed (2026)

Key People

Sudip Rokaya — Founder
Kartikesh Mishra — Cofounder and CTO

Timeline Highlights

2023-10-01: Product Development Initiated
2023-09-15: Seed Funding Secured
2023-01-15: Company Founded

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