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Lamina Labs

Lamina Labs builds Simi, which turns text prompts or uploaded documents into narrated whiteboard-style explainer videos, producing a one-minute video in roughly 40 seconds. The company describes its wider aim as near-real-time video infrastructure for language models. Simi supports more than 80 languages including Nepali, and serves training teams, educators, small businesses and developers through an API. Twelve days after launch it reported around 4,000 users and 187 paying customers.
laminalabs.ai
Registered US SaaS Nepali-founded Covered · tier 2
Jurisdiction and Nepali-founded are recorded separately. A company registered abroad can carry both. Nepali-founded basis: self published.
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JurisdictionUS SectorSaaS CitySan Francisco Events2 Latest1 Jun 2026

Events on record

2 entries · 2 sources · newest first
Jun 2026
Jestha 2083 BS conv.
FY 2082/83
month precision
Funding round · Y Combinator + seed
Y Combinator batch plus a seed follow-on
Reported as the first all-Nepali startup funded by Y Combinator. The exact day the follow-on closed is not stated in any source, so only the month is asserted. Amount is a compound of two separate figures and is deliberately left unparsed.
$500,000 (YC) plus $3 million follow-on, total $3.5 million
As published. Not reduced to a single figure. See the note above.
Only the month is asserted here. No day is shown.
InvestorsY Combinator Permalink /events/730c1f40
Nepali Times, 21 Jun 2026
2026
2082 BS conv.
FY 2082/83
year precision
Cohort entry · Y Combinator Spring 2026
Accepted into Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch
Founders state on YC's own site that they are the first Nepalese founding team to go through YC. No admission date is published, so only the year is asserted.
USD 500,000 ≈ USD 500,000
USD 500,000 · $500,000 as published
Source gives a year only.
InvestorsY Combinator Permalink /events/f864a374
Y Combinator

People

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Sources

Nepali Times , 21 Jun 2026 · recorded 2026-07-29
Y Combinator · recorded 2026-07-29
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