Laminar · May 2026
Product update explaining Laminar's trace storage approach and the claimed ~20x storage savings for long-running agent traces.
Understand why your AI agent breaks. Iterate fast to fix it.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Laminar is an open-source, OpenTelemetry-native observability and debugging platform built for AI agents. It helps teams trace, replay, debug, and evaluate long-running agent workflows with transcript-style traces, natural-language Signals, and a managed cloud or self-hosted deployment option.
Primary product
Open-source observability and debugging platform for AI agents (Laminar Cloud / self-hosted Laminar)
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Information Services
Sub-industry
AI agent observability / developer tools
Business model
open-source software
managed SaaS cloud
self-hosted on-premise
enterprise licensing
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$3.6M
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2026
Latest amount
$3M
People & investors
Work & culture
Engineering-first, open-source, and performance-obsessed; public messaging emphasizes fast iteration, self-hostability, Rust-based infrastructure, and helping teams ship and debug reliable agents.
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium SaaS with usage-based data and Signals pricing, plus custom enterprise / on-premise licensing.
Differentiators
- —Open-source and Apache 2.0 licensed
- —OpenTelemetry-native architecture
- —Built for long-running AI agents rather than request-response apps
- —Transcript / reader-mode UI instead of a span-tree-first view
- —Signals for plain-English failure detection and clustering
- —Agent debugger that reruns from any step with cached state
- —Browser session recording synced to traces
- —Rust-based high-performance storage and ~20x trace compression
Technology
Rust
OpenTelemetry
OTLP
PostgreSQL
ClickHouse
Quickwit
Docker
Kubernetes
Helm
RabbitMQ
Redis
AWS
GCP
TypeScript
Python
Claude Agent SDK
LangChain
Browser Use
LiteLLM
Stagehand
Customers
Browser Use
OpenHands
Rye.com
Alai
LegionIntel
Competitors
Langfuse
LangSmith
Braintrust
Arize Phoenix
Scale & contact
Latest news
Atlantic.vc · Mar 2026
Investor write-up on Laminar's stealth exit, founding team, and the $3M seed led by Atlantic.vc.
FinSMEs · Mar 2026
Funding announcement recap noting the Atlantic.vc-led seed round and Laminar's Rust-based, open-source observability platform for AI agents.
Tech.eu · Mar 2026
Independent coverage of Laminar's $3M seed round and product focus on long-running AI agent observability, browser replay, and agent debugging.
Laminar · Mar 2026
Official launch post announcing the $3M seed round led by Atlantic.vc, with participation from Y Combinator, AAL.vc, Ben Sigelman, and Ant Wilson, and describing Laminar's agent observability platform.
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