Platform as a service (PaaS) Laminar has raised $5.11 million in seed funding led by Artha India Ventures (AIV) and Leo Capital, Garuda Ventures, Cloudcap. The spherical additionally noticed participation from Sampson Acquisitions, Inc. According to the corporate, this elevate will speed up product growth and market enlargement.
Laminar will immensely profit from the collective expertise of the traders in quickly scaling its enterprise and increasing their world footprint, Narendra Nag, co-founder and CEO, Laminar, mentioned. “In Nielsen’s recent State of Play report the number of people subscribing to four or more services has more than doubled in the US — this is a secular trend around the world. Such growth will only accelerate as consumers coalesce around (and pay for) content that speaks to their cultural reality,” he added.
Founded in 2020 by Narendra Nag, Raheel Khursheed, Tirthraj Singh, Kumar Shorav, and Yin Shanyang, London-based Laminar allows content material house owners to launch a worldwide over-the-top (OTT) service in 12-weeks or much less. It takes over the heavy lifting of making back-end applied sciences from OTT gamers in order that they’ll deal with their core enterprise of content material creation. Media firms get the flexibility to customize and launch apps throughout all lessons of gadgets, arrange a number of forms of monetization choices, meet all tax and compliance necessities, and get a whole information and analytics suite at zero CAPEX. The firm claims to have enabled Chaupal, a multi-regional OTT platform from India, to launch in 110 international locations in 12 weeks, 4 occasions quicker than the typical trade timeframe.
“This is the first significant investment in Europe of Artha India Ventures. “Laminar gives content creators the backbone to challenge the duopoly of Netflix and Amazon Prime by building zero code cloud-based PaaS offering. We were pleasantly surprised by the width of their client base that needs Laminar to solve their pressing issue. Moreover, we see immense potential in the OTT-enabler ecosystem,” Anirudh A Damani, director, Artha India Ventures, mentioned.
For Rajul Garg, founding accomplice, Leo Capital, media firms can see content material consumption quickly shifting away from cable, satellite tv for pc, and DTH worldwide. “Laminar has timed this industry transition beautifully with a product that is ready today for media companies who don’t want to spend time and money re-inventing the wheel, and we are excited to partner with them to help create the next global leader in the media-tech space,” he highlighted.
Laminar has a presence in London, Toronto, Wroclaw, Dubai, New Delhi, and Singapore and an engineering group based mostly out of Wroclaw and Barcelona.
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