About
Scaling AI for complex biological systems means scaling its iterative cycle: laboratory results inform models, models design the next round of experiments. While leading ML and Comp Bio teams in the industry we experienced firsthand that — beyond data generation itself — the primary bottleneck was closing the feedback loop across heterogeneous modalities at scale. We needed a way to query, trace, and validate complex biological datasets with context and memory to effectively learn from mistakes and train the next generation of models.
We founded Lamin in 2022 to build an open-source, zero-lock-in solution to this problem. We started with a "git for R&D data" that enabled traceability & versioning alongside a biological data catalog. Today, LaminDB has evolved into a lineage-native lakehouse: a programmable context and memory layer for biological R&D that scales—just like git—from personal projects to pharma-scale enterprise deployments.
We are proud to work with thousands of scientists across academia, biotech, and global pharma. Together, we are building a more reliable foundation for data-driven research at scale.
Headquartered in Munich and New York City, we are always looking for exceptional people to join our mission — please reach out!
Team
Alex Wolf
Co-Founder & CEO
Created Scanpy & led the build-up of Cellarity’s compute platform. >20k citations & decades of building R&D software across domains.
Altana Namsaraeva
Research Associate
Studying bioinformatics at TUM, previously core developer of scPortrait.
Felix Fischer
Research Associate
PhD student in Theislab.
Frederic Enard
Co-CTO & Founding Engineer
Backend & infrastructure systems. Previously: CTO at AI startup Kicck & 4.5 years in enterprise data engineering at TF1.
Lawrence Lee
Advisor
Director of Software Engineering at insitro. Ex-CTO at Shiru.
Lukas Heumos
Research Software Engineer
Co-founded scverse, led single-cell best practices, created pertpy and ehrapy.
Richard Sriworarat
Founding Full Stack Engineer
Full stack scientist-dev. Ex-IBO team Thailand.
Sergei Rybakov
Founding Principal Engineer
Data layer & backend systems. Previously: contributions to scanpy, research in machine learning & comp bio, 5 years in enterprise analytics.
Sunny Sun
Co-Founder & President
Previously Head of Comp Bio at Cellarity. Genome engineering & cell biology in wet & dry lab at NYU.



