Laminar YC Application

Summer 2024Active

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
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.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
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

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Laminar YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. 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.