Welcome to MGMT Boston where we try to help thousands of you manage your awareness of top Boston startups, founders, and local builders putting in the work. Glad to have you here!
June Presenting Ecosystem Partners:
TLDR:
Brian Babineau, Chief Customer Officer at HYCU - helping organizations build resilient infrastructure and re-imagining the definition of an enterprise: workloads > employees
Peter Attia, Co-Founder & CTO at Glimpse - building software for high throughput CT scanning to power battery quality control
Thanks to Greentown Labs for the intro
Cynthia Liao, Co-Founder & CEO at Vertical Semiconductor - commercializing a new class of power semiconductor, leveraging vertical gallium nitride, to make data centers dramatically more efficient
Thanks to Greentown Labs for the intro
Boston startups are hiring and TechParazzi got the inside scoop - Manifold AI, Resurety, Jellyfish, Hi Marley, Clasp, Enlaye, and CloudZero are actively hiring for GTM and technical roles
Samaira Banga covers Mass AI Coalition’s “New to Boston” event at WHOOP
MGMT Boston 2026 Startup Partners: Blitzy / Suno / HYCU / OnRamp / WHOOP
We’ll be creating media all year alongside these standout teams! More to come!
Around the Hub on MGMT Boston’s News Feed:
Lovable (Enterprise / Consumer AI) rumored to be raising at $12B Valuation - allegedly!
Foundation Alloy (climatetech) raises $22M Series A to scale Melt-Free Metal Alloying
HaloBraid (Consumer / Robotics) raises $7M Seed Round to automate hair braiding
BoolSi raises $6M Seed to enable developers to put AI into chips
Upcoming Ecosystem Events:
Thurs, 6/25: Planhat June Happy Hour - hosting an informal evening with CS and revenue leaders
Thurs, 7/2: AI Founders Meet Engineers
Other Resources:
MGMT Boston Operators Club - a community and opportunity engine for 125+ Boston based up & coming venture backed operators
Boston Tech Big Board - 2026 Startups to Watch
Open Market and The Art of The Possible - once upon a time in Cambridge, 30 years ago, a buzzy Web 1.0 startup went public with $1.8M in trailing revenue. These are their lessons for the age of AI
Brian Babineau, Chief Customer Officer at HYCU, joins 🔥 The Lantern 🔥 to share..
HYCU helps organizations build resilient infrastructure that protects their data from the risks of today...and the ones the world will throw at them six months from now.
Brian leads their customer organization, helping HYCU customers move forward without introducing unmanaged, unmitigated, or unnecessary risk.
🛡️ What does resilience mean in 2026? 🛡️
Customers are racing to deploy new AI capabilities and unlock use cases that didn't exist six months ago. But the smart ones won't move unless they have a plan to recover.
Customers don't just want somebody who stores a backup or moves data, they want partners who know what that data is and can get it back really quickly.
🏢 Why is "enterprise" being redefined? 🏢
Enterprise used to mean headcount. In the agentic world, it means workloads.
How many applications are you running? Can you perform, secure, generate, and move quickly?
Law firms and education institutions you'd never call "enterprises" are now operating at enterprise scale, with enterprise security, protection, and disaster recovery requirements.
And when an agent makes a change instead of a human? No one cares who made it. You still need to move forward or back with confidence.
🧠 What is Brian's advice for builders in this era? 🧠
Boston has a unique edge: we're aggressive, but intelligently aggressive. We need to continue to drive fast, but with the seatbelt still on. Keep the human in the loop.
Go fast, stay impatient, but bring the diligence and insight this community is known for. That's how we’ll survive and succeed when new AI models ship at lightning speed.
🤝 How can Boston help HYCU grow? 🤝
Brian wants to hear from you! What has changed in your business in the last six months, and what are you doing to govern it and make it more resilient?
HYCU is growing fast and drinking its own champagne (the Celtics kind, not the Knicks kind).
If you're building a new enterprise, share how you're making it resilient by moving quickly while staying secure.
You’ll be hearing from HYCU this summer at MGMT Boston, rapidly scaling right here in Boston
Peter Attia, Co-Founder & CTO at Glimpse joins 🔥 The Lantern 🔥 to share..
Glimpse is building software for high throughput CT scanning to power battery quality control.
As the world electrifies and industrializes for the next generation of manufacturing, this team is building technology to hunt for the tiny defects inside battery cells that can cause fires, explosions, and all sorts of failures.
📈 What is Peter and the Glimpse team excited about heading into 2026? 📈
The team just closed a growth investment from In-Q-Tel.
They're also working to expand both within batteries and into non-battery applications, since CT is widely used across countless industries.
Their team is now around 20 people, growing slowly but steadily, with customers ranging from small startups sending in a couple of parts to some of the largest cell producers and OEMs in the world.
🤔 What would Peter pass back to other early stage builders? 🤔
The Boston startup ecosystem is central to the Glimpse story. They owe much of their success to Greentown Labs and the people who build it, run it, and show up every day.
Without Greentown, they wouldn't have reached the place they are today.
🤝 How can we help Glimpse? 🤝
Glimpse is always looking for more customers, so if you know anyone who needs to CT scan technology, send them their way.
They're also eager to expand further across the US and internationally. Go check out the Glimpse team!
Cynthia Liao, Co-Founder & CEO of Vertical Semiconductor joins 🔥 The Lantern 🔥
Vertical Semiconductor is commercializing a new class of power semiconductor, leveraging vertical gallium nitride, to make data centers dramatically more efficient.
After nearly a decade of research at MIT, this team has built a chip more performance than silicon or silicon carbide with higher efficiency, faster switching, and incredible power density.
Vertical Semiconductor is the first in the world to vertical GaN on an eight-inch fabless approach, built right here in Boston area at MIT’s Lincoln Lab, using existing silicon tools to produce state-of-the-art GaN.
🗺️ What's happening in 2026 at Vertical Semiconductor? 🗺️
After spinning out of MIT and setting up at Greentown Labs in Somerville, this is scaling year.
Cynthia and team are growing headcount and moving from prototype volumes to commercial availability, transferring their proprietary process to a commercial foundry to meet data center demand.
The opportunity is massive: roughly 40% of the energy entering a data center is lost in power conversion and distribution.
Their technology can recover 10 to 15% more power out of every data center, turning power from a cost driver into a revenue driver.
🤔 What has Cynthia learned building this company? 🤔
As a non-technical co-founder partnered with two MIT researchers, her biggest lesson is that deep tech is more accessible than people assume.
You can bring skillsets from across other industries to make hard tech come to life, both on chip design and manufacturing, and on commercialization and go-to-market.
Her journey didn't start in power electronics, and now she's teaching others along the way.
🤝 How can we help Vertical Semiconductor grow? 🤝
They're looking for early pilot customers in energy and power, especially anyone focused on data centers, to demonstrate what the technology can do at the system level.
They're also likely raising another round later this year or early next. If that's you, this is a Boston Physical AI company worth watching!
Boston startups are hiring and TechParazzi got the inside scoop so you don’t have to
We went straight to the source…
Actively hiring for GTM and technical roles. These hiring managers share exactly what kind of candidates they want on their teams.
Any feedback for us? One thing you liked? One thing you didn’t? Local startups, founders, or operators to highlight? Just reply to this e-mail!
See you next week!
-Matt
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