Lamin

Lamin YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Lamin went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 batch as a Healthcare company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch
Summer 2022
Industry
HealthcareHealthcare IT
Team size
10
Status
Active
Launched
2022

Founders

  • Alex Wolf
    Alex WolfCo-Founder & CEO
  • Sunny Sun
    Sunny SunFounder

What Lamin does

Query, trace, and validate datasets and models at scale. Automate context for agents and humans. One API: lakehouse, lineage, feature store, ontologies, bio-registries & formats.

Lamin's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lamin, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lamin

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open data lakehouse for biology

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built a unified API that integrates a data lakehouse, dataset and model lineage, feature store, ontologies, and bio-registries and formats. Our product helps biology teams query, trace, and validate large datasets and machine learning models reliably and at scale. It automates context for both human scientists and AI agents so they can understand biological data and workflows without losing provenance or consistency.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

n/a

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our team is distributed; we've designed Lamin to be location-agnostic and serve global biology and healthcare data teams remotely. We will maintain this approach after YC to focus on finding the right users and building the product quickly.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lamin YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Lamin's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Lamin would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.

What YC batch was Lamin in?

Lamin was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2022 batch.

Who founded Lamin?

Lamin was founded by Alex Wolf, Sunny Sun.

What does Lamin do?

Open data lakehouse for biology

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Lamin's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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