Lamina Labs builds visual infrastructure for EdTech AI applications, focused on generating explainer videos at scale. Its product, Simi, turns a single text prompt into a complete whiteboard-style video in seconds, helping teams explain ideas, products, workflows, and lessons. The company was founded in 2025 by two MIT computer science backgrounds. Lamina Labs is part of Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch.
Lamina Labs
ActiveVisual infrastructure for EdTech AI applications
Total raised
$500K
1 round
Stage
Seed
Jan 2026
Team
1-10
since 2026
Pricing
—
Founded
2026
Agent-ready
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Visual infrastructure for EdTech AI applications
Simi product turns a single prompt into a whiteboard explainer video
Generates complete explainer videos in seconds
Whiteboard-style visual format
Explains ideas, products, workflows, and lessons
Built for generating explainer videos at scale
Text-prompt-to-video generation pipeline
Designed for education-focused use cases
12/100
Early
MCP server
Public API
Webhooks
OAuth 2.0
SDKs
No public agent surfaces detected yet.
Jan 2026 Seed $500K ● Y Combinator
Capital network
$500K raised ·1 backer·10 network links
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- What does Lamina Labs build?
- It builds visual infrastructure for EdTech AI applications, focused on generating explainer videos at scale.
- What is Simi?
- Simi is Lamina Labs' product that turns a single text prompt into a complete whiteboard-style video in seconds.
- What can Simi explain?
- It helps explain ideas, products, workflows, and lessons through generated videos.
- Who founded Lamina Labs?
- It was founded in 2025 by a team with MIT computer science backgrounds and is part of Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch.
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