Laminar

Laminar YC Application

Summer 2024Active

London, United Kingdom

Laminar went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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
Summer 2024
Industry
B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Location
London, United Kingdom
Team size
6
Status
Active
Launched
2024

Founders

  • Robert KimFounder
  • Din MailibayFounder

What Laminar does

Laminar is open-source observability for AI agents. Trace complex workflows, replay and debug agent runs, and detect anomalies across trajectories at scale.

Laminar's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Laminar, Summer 2024 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

Laminar

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Understand why your AI agent breaks. Iterate fast to fix it.

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

We are building an open-source observability platform for AI agents. Our product lets users trace complex agent workflows, replay runs, debug failures, and detect anomalies across trajectories at scale. This helps engineering, product, and design teams understand where their AI agents fail and fix those issues quickly.

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

We live and work in London, United Kingdom, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

London has a strong tech and AI community with access to engineering talent. It's our home and base for Laminar's development and operations.

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 Laminar YC application?

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

What YC batch was Laminar in?

Laminar was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch.

Who founded Laminar?

Laminar was founded by Robert Kim, Din Mailibay.

What does Laminar do?

Understand why your AI agent breaks. Iterate fast to fix it.

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

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

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