Laminar, based in Boston, MA, was co-founded by siblings Annie and David Lu, who come from a generational manufacturer background, growing up on the shop floor, seeing firsthand what it takes to run large-scale production facilities.
When recent global crises exposed the fragility of global supply chains and industrial manufacturing, they felt an urgent obligation to build technology that equips the world's most essential industries to face societal and climate pressures head-on.
It’s why Laminar was born in 2023, a company focusing on manufacturing processes and aiming to convert static production processes into dynamic, self-driving operations. The innovation behind it is called Process-Aware Autonomy, a new category of Physical AI. Operating across three integrated layers (patented inline optical sensors, foundational machine learning models, and a robust trust layer), Laminar’s system generates a real-time digital fingerprint of what is flowing inside factory pipelines, autonomously driving the optimal operational action in sub-second intervals. Saving water, chemicals, energy, and time with every production cycle is only the beginning of the intelligent operations era.