aVenture · Mar 2024
Describes Laminate as a card fulfillment platform for banks, fintechs, and other card issuers, and summarizes its seed-stage history, customers, and competitors.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Laminate is a YC W23 fintech/infrastructure startup based in New York that designs, manufactures, and fulfills physical debit and credit cards for issuers, while integrating with existing card-issuing stacks. Public sources conflict on funding and team size: the company LinkedIn reports $625k across two seed rounds and 3 employees, while some directories describe it as bootstrapped or estimate a larger headcount.
Primary product
Design, manufacture, and fulfillment of physical debit and credit cards for issuers
Founded
2023
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Fintech / card issuing infrastructure
Business model
B2B SaaS
payments infrastructure
card fulfillment services
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$625K
Latest round
Seed · Aug 2023
Latest amount
$125K
People & investors
Work & culture
Product & market
Pricing
Public pricing not disclosed; appears to be enterprise/B2B software plus service fees for card design, manufacturing, and fulfillment.
Differentiators
- —Works with existing card issuing stacks instead of requiring a stack replacement
- —Covers the full card lifecycle from design through manufacturing and fulfillment
- —Specializes in physical debit and credit cards for issuers
Technology
Google Workspace
Next.js
Google Tag Manager
Node.js
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Third-party estimates range from about $1.3M to $5.8M annual revenue; not publicly confirmed.
Estimated monthly visits
200
Latest news
Substack · Apr 2023
Early public coverage describing Laminate as an API for physical credit card manufacturing; it also noted founder Khurram Aslam's prior Stripe/Goldman/Barclays background and a team size of 3.
Extruct AI
Third-party company profile estimating revenue, identifying Khurram Aslam as founder/CEO, and listing Y Combinator and Soma Capital among the backers.
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