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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Laminar (LMNR AI).\n\nRobert Kim is co-founder and CEO of Laminar, which helps teams find out why AI agents fail, from Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch. Kim previously interned at Palantir, building a semantic search package used by internal AI teams, and at Bloomberg, scaling a market tick processing pipeline tenfold.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skull8888888/\n- X: https://x.com/skull8888888888\n\n## What Robert builds\n\n- [Laminar API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/laminar.md), graded C, 56.8/100, in Agent observability \u0026 evals. Open-source tracing, evaluations and an agent debugger built on OpenTelemetry, with browser session recordings synced to traces for browser agents. Co-founder, Laminar (LMNR AI), researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Din Mailibay](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/din-mailibay/), Co-founder, Laminar (LMNR AI)\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [Atlantic](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/atlantic/)\n- [AAL VC](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aal-vc/)\n- [Ben Sigelman (co-creator of OpenTelemetry)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ben-sigelman-co-creator-of-opentelemetry/)\n- [Ant Wilson (CTO of Supabase)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/ant-wilson-cto-of-supabase/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Robert Kim?\n\nRobert Kim is co-founder and CEO of Laminar, which helps teams find out why AI agents fail, from Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch. Kim previously interned at Palantir, building a semantic search package used by internal AI teams, and at Bloomberg, scaling a market tick processing pipeline tenfold.\n\n### What does Laminar (LMNR AI) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Laminar API + MCP from Laminar (LMNR AI). Open-source tracing, evaluations and an agent debugger built on OpenTelemetry, with browser session recordings synced to traces for browser agents.\n\n### Who has invested in Laminar (LMNR AI)?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator, Atlantic, AAL VC, Ben Sigelman (co-creator of OpenTelemetry) and Ant Wilson (CTO of Supabase).\n\n### How are Robert's tools graded?\n\nLaminar API + MCP is graded C, 56.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/laminar\n- https://laminar.sh/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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