Lamina Labs raises $4.8 million to turn AI answers into explainer videos

The two-person YC startup's Simi product turns prompts and documents into narrated whiteboard videos for people, software and AI agents.

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Primary source: X - Sudip Rokaya

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Lamina Labs is betting that explainer video can become a generated software output. Its API could move training, onboarding and AI answers from production queues into automated workflows.

A hand places a small photo on blank paper atop a green cutting mat, beside books, a world map and a pencil; subtitles read “These two kids grew up in two of the most.”

Sudip Rokaya (@sudiprokaya) and Kartikesh Mishra (@mk314k) have raised $4.8 million for Lamina Labs, their two-person San Francisco AI-video operation, Rokaya said in an X thread on Thursday. The founders also introduced Simi, a product that converts prompts, documents and scripts into narrated whiteboard-style explainer videos.

https://x.com/sudiprokaya/status/2082878413703196874?s=46…

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