YC Spring 2026 (P26) founder

Kartikesh Mishra

Founder of Lamina Labs, Near-real-time video infrastructure for LLMs

Company

Kartikesh Mishra is listed as a founder of Lamina Labs. Lamina Labs is building infrastructure for near-real-time structured video generation. Most AI video is built for cinematic clips. Lamina is built for useful videos that teach and explain. Our first product, Simi, turns prompts, documents, and AI answers into whiteboard-style teaching videos in seconds. Our goal is to make video the default interface for AI communication.

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  1. LinkedIn

    We raised $4.8 million to make AI explain with video, not just text. Today, we are announcing Lamina Labs and Simi, our first product and the fastest way to make an explainer video. Give Simi a single prompt, document, or script, and it can generate a complete one-minute narrated explainer in as little as eight seconds, in more than 80 languages. It works like ChatGPT, except the answer is a video. This announcement means a lot to us for reasons that go beyond the funding. Kartikesh and I grew up in two of the most remote parts of Nepal. Neither of us grew up knowing what MIT, Y Combinator, or venture capital were. Years later, we met at MIT. Today, we are proud to be the first all-Nepalese founding team in Y Combinator history. The idea behind Lamina came from something both of us experienced growing up: difficult ideas are much harder when you do not have the right teacher, explanation

    We raised $4.8 million to make AI explain with video, not just text. Today, we are announcing Lamina Labs and Simi, our first product and the fastest way to make an explainer video. Give Simi a single prompt, document, or script, and it can generate a complete one-minute...

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    Today, we're introducing ChatGPT for Explainer Videos. With just one prompt, Simi lets you generate whiteboard-style explainer videos that actually teach you something in seconds. On our fastest tier, your video is ready to watch in under 20 seconds.

    Today, we're introducing ChatGPT for Explainer Videos. With just one prompt, Simi lets you generate whiteboard-style explainer videos that actually teach you something in seconds. On our fastest tier, your video is ready to watch in under 20 seconds.

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    We built the fastest explainer video generator in the world. Introducing Simi: turn any prompt, doc, or idea into a complete whiteboard explainer video in seconds. It supports 80+ languages, so the same idea can be taught to audiences anywhere. AI video has gotten Show more 0:05 / 2:34

    We built the fastest explainer video generator in the world. Introducing Simi: turn any prompt, doc, or idea into a complete whiteboard explainer video in seconds. It supports 80+ languages, so the same idea can be taught to audiences anywhere. AI video has gotten Show more...

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    OpenAI's GPT-Live breakdown covers full-duplex audio, async media paths, and state handoffs.

    OpenAI's GPT-Live breakdown covers full-duplex audio, async media paths, and state handoffs. Pretty cool to see Simi map out these complex system topologies into a structured whiteboard visual on a single pass. Try Simi, it is the fastest way to generate explainer videos on the

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    The uncomfortable part of enterprise AI is that the product improves by watching the work. Not just the documents. The corrections, retr...

    The uncomfortable part of enterprise AI is that the product improves by watching the work. Not just the documents. The corrections, retries, exceptions, overrides, and edge cases. That is where the real company knowledge lives. The companies that win won’t just adopt AI. They...

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    This is Insaneeeee!!!! Simi Version 2 is coming very soon!!!

    This is Insaneeeee!!!! Simi Version 2 is coming very soon!!!

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    Most AI video systems are built to generate clips.

    Most AI video systems are built to generate clips. We are building infrastructure that generates explanations. That means video that is fast, structured, controllable, and reliable enough to be generated inside any model, agent, or application. Simi is our first step. Very

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    Happy 4th, Everyone!!!

    Happy 4th, Everyone!!!