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People
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Jobs
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$12.4M
1 round on record
Latest round
$12.4M
Venture round · Jan 2025 · 21 mo ago
Team
27
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +93% in a year
Hiring now
16
open roles
Backers
2
Techstars, Greycroft
The money's age
Due for its next round
21 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
25/100
a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2025 Team of 27 was 14 · US Form 5500 (plan participants) Oct 2025 Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine Jan 16, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $12.4M · SEC Form D
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jan 2025 $12.4M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity H2Ok Innovations Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Annie LuExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
David LuExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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How Laminar hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Laminar scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

#2,260 of 8,228 sponsors
5
H-1B filings in 12 months
$113k
Median offered salary
16
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Data scientists
1
Other business operations specialists
1
Electrical engineers
1
2 more occupations and the salary for eachVisa pass · 90 credits
In the register as H2Ok Innovations Inc. t/a Laminar, Somerville, MA
Other sponsors in the same field
US Department of Labor · latest filing May 7, 2026 · Visa details by country

Overview

Laminar uses science-led AI and in-line spectral sensors to optimize clean-in-place, product changeovers, and line performance for food, beverage, and CPG manufacturers.

Connections

List
Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors2
GreycroftVia a fund
227 portfolio companies: Juniper Square, Huffpost, HealthPlanOne, LLC and 224 more
TechstarsVia a fund
4363 portfolio companies

News

News Joshua Bellamy 3 months ago
3D-Printed Laminar Flow Nozzle: Design Lessons
A practical look at three 3D-printed garden-hose laminar-flow nozzles: design stages, printing lessons, failures, and free model files.
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Report
Award PRNewswire 4 months ago
Laminar CEO & Co-Founder Annie Lu Named Top 100 Women in AI
/PRNewswire/ -- Laminar, the only physical AI company that powers Process-Aware Autonomy for self-driving factories, today announced that Chief Executive...
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News manufacturingtomorrow.com 4 months ago
Physical AI in Manufacturing: How To Turn a New Category Into Factory Value ManufacturingTomorrow
Asking an already-stretched floor to adopt Physical AI demands more than excitement - it demands a practical path to value, proven inside the constraints of a plant that cannot afford to slow down to find out if the bet pays off.
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News World Economic Forum 5 months ago
Why process manufacturing needs a molecular revolution
Advanced physical artificial intelligence is shifting from mechanical spatial awareness to real-time molecular chemistry management.
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Report
News World Economic Forum 5 months ago
Meet the Technology Pioneers driving innovation in 2026
The Forum has announced its latest cohort of Technology Pioneers. Here's what they tell us about innovation, entrepreneurship and frontier technology.
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Report
News World Economic Forum 5 months ago
New Technology Pioneers Are Building the Infrastructure for the Next Era of AI
Geneva, Switzerland, 10 June 2026 - The World Economic Forum today announced its 2026 Technology Pioneers cohort, recognizing 100 early-stage companies from 23 countries that are developing breakthrough technologies with the potential to transform industr
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Report
News Processing Magazine 6 months ago
From CIP 1.0 to CIP 4.0: The arrival of intelligent CIP
The food and beverage industry is moving toward relying on digitization, data and AI to take CIP to the next level.
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Report
News chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com 11 months ago
Testing a cheaper laminar flow hood.
Cheaper home science.
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News laminar.sh 11 months ago
How we instrumented Claude Agent SDK using a tiny Rust proxy
How we instrumented Claude Agent SDK using a tiny Rust proxy - from the Laminar team
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Laminar over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
46
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
C++
Rust
SQL
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch
Boto3
JAX
NumPy
Cloud & platforms
Linux
AWS
Databricks
RTOS
AI & ML
LLM
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Full Laminar tech stack 46 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$151k
Typical range
$95k – $280k
Open positions
16
9 Jobs
Junior 55.6%
Middle 11.1%
Senior 33.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 5 $121k $95k – $141k
Middle 1 $140k $140k
Senior 3 $180k $160k – $180k
Highest paying role Enterprise Account Executive, CPG $280k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Laminar By role, level and city, against the market · 16 jobs with pay

People

Annie Lu
Executive Officer, Director
David Lu
Executive Officer, Director
Jim Moffatt
Director
Dayna Grayson
Director
Names and roles come from public filings, company registers and the company's own site. Is this you? Correct or remove · How we handle this data

Growth

Hiring Momentum
61/100
Growing
Open positions
16
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
129 days
faster than 9% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
25% ▲
AI/ML
17% ▲
Hardware
17% ▲
Administrative
8% ▼
Finance
8% ▲
Sales
8% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: San Francisco Oct 2026
Added CI/CD to stack Oct 2026
New location: Boston Oct 2026
Added TensorFlow to stack Sep 2026
Added Self-Supervised Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Scikit-learn to stack Sep 2026
Added Polars to stack Sep 2026
Added Pandas to stack Sep 2026
Added NumPy to stack Sep 2026
Added Multimodal AI to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added JAX to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Boston
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Boston United States
HQ
16 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 44% engineering 10-50 est. staff $162k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Sales, AI/ML
seen since Sep 2025 job postings
San Francisco United States
Regional office
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $200k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Sales, Operations
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Somerville United States
Regional office
Ready to see the results?
1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
444 Somerville Ave. , Somerville, MA 02143
seen since Sep 2025 company site

Jobs

$89k – $141k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · Boston
Python
Databricks
AI/ML
Polars
Scikit-learn
JAX
Multimodal AI
TensorFlow
Pandas
NumPy
PyTorch
Self-Supervised Learning
Time Series
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
AWS
Apply
$91k – $121k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Boston
Python
Rust
C++
Edge AI
DevOps
Git
Docker
Linux
TCP/IP
DNS
IoT
OPC UA
Apply
$100k – $160k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Boston
RTOS
Chips/EDA
KiCad
Design
SolidWorks
Apply
$87k – $139k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · Boston
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
Interpretability
Frontend
React.js
Apply
$114k – $180k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Boston
Python
Rust
C++
LLM
Edge AI
DevOps
CI/CD
Linux
IoT
OPC UA
Apply
$114k – $180k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · Boston
C
C++
Embedded C
Apply
$89k – $141k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · Boston
Python
SQL
Boto3
Databases
Databricks
AI/ML
Weights & Biases
Spark
MLFlow
Fine-tuning
PyTorch
Time Series
Human-in-the-Loop
DevOps
AWS
Apply
$80k – $110k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Boston
Python
Time Series
DevOps
Git
GitHub
Linux
TCP/IP
DNS
VLAN
Cybersecurity
Nmap
Tcpdump
Apply
$82k – $101k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · Boston
Time Series
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$12.4M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $12.4M Details