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
HSTS
React
Webpack
Google Analytics
Vercel
Google Font API
Customers
banks
fintechs
financial institutions
card issuers
enterprise customers
Competitors
Stripe Issuing
Unit
Galileo
CPI Card Group
Smurfit Westrock
Hubuc
Solid
Bridgecard
Kred
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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