Lamina Labs YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Lamina Labs went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2026 batch as a B2B 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: Spring 2026
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Sudip RokayaFounder
Kartikesh MishraCofounder and CTO

What Lamina Labs does

Lamina Labs is building AI infrastructure for instant explainer videos. Simi turns a single prompt into a complete whiteboard video in seconds, helping teams explain ideas, products, workflows, and lessons faster than ever before.

Lamina Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lamina Labs, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lamina Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI infrastructure for explainer videos

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

We build Simi, an AI platform that transforms a single text prompt into a fully-produced whiteboard explainer video in seconds. It helps teams quickly create clear educational and product videos without the usual time or design overhead.

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

We currently live and work in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco lets us tap into a rich engineering talent pool and be close to early adopter tech companies that need explainer content fast. It's the natural base for scaling our product and partnerships.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lamina Labs YC application?

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