Founders: Peter Attia, Patrick Herring, Eric Moch
Founding: 2023
Mission: Enabling battery quality at scale
Employees: 10+ & ~75% Local
Workplace: Hybrid
Stage & Capital Raised: Series A & $10M+ raised
Investors: TDK Ventures, Ibex Mobility, Flybridge Capital Partners
Key Customers: Lucid Motor, NASA, Novonix
Glassdoor Rating: N/A
Valuation (estimated): $50M (assuming average equity dilution in the $10M Series A fundraise)
^ this is a useless number from MGMT Boston. There is no tangible valuation until the business is sold or goes public. Don’t forget it!
Glimpse is on a mission to build the world’s most powerful battery quality monitoring platform. This team is enabling automated, high-throughput battery inspection to create next generation quality control software using CT scanning technology. They’re helping battery producers & buyers inspect and evaluate the internal structure of batteries in minutes, with a clear roadmap to turn inspections in seconds this year.
Eric Moch and Peter Attia worked together at Tesla where they learned about the complexity of bringing electric vehicles to market from one of the world’s leading electric vehicle manufacturers. They teamed up with Patrick Herring, a research scientist from Toyota Research who worked with Peter at Stanford, to tackle a critically overlooked part of the successful transition to an electrified mobility industry: battery quality.
From experience and customer interviews, it was clear that even the most advanced manufacturers in the world faced challenges when it came to maintaining battery quality. The global battery market is $100B+ growing to $300B+ by 2030 (src). Fires, recalls, and failures that reach public headlines are just the visible portion of a much larger and costlier problem ultimately shouldered by consumers. Battery quality, in a rapidly growing market, is consistently underappreciated.
Eric, Patrick & Peter came together in 2023 to reimagine battery quality control using computed tomography scanning. What? A CT scan of course! But don’t worry, your brain is fine. This stuff is complex. Outside of hospitals, a common misconception is that CT scanning is too slow and expensive to be compatible with gigawatt-hour scale battery production and assembly environments. But Eric, Patrick, Peter & team are allowing us to glimpse into the future..
Their proprietary software, built on existing CT technology, unlocks a quality management system that stores, analyzes, and correlates battery defect data over time. Defects come in a variety of shapes and sizes and can reside in any part of the battery cell. In many instances, these types of defects are “latent”, which means they’re imperceptible to standard “picture taking” (electrical characterization) techniques. By generating a high-resolution map of the battery’s internal structure, CT scanning makes it possible to produce a comprehensive assessment of a battery’s manufacturing quality.
Glimpse serves two primary customer types: producers and buyers of batteries. Battery producers would be companies like Panasonic, LG, or Samsung who might use Glimpse to inspect units before they leave the factory, examine root cause failures, and improve manufacturing yields (Glimpse has yet to name any battery producers as customers).
Battery buyers, like NASA & Lucid Motors (Glimpse customers!), use their platform for incoming quality control, failure analysis, and fleet monitoring. Glimpse helps them and other buyers – EV companies, appliance makers, and aerospace companies – ensure that the batteries they integrate into their products won’t cause downstream issues.
Glimpse is fast, real-time, and integrated with the factory floor. Their platform reduces scan times from 30-90 minutes to just a couple minutes today with a roadmap to get to sub 10 second scans this year. Customers can turn passive data into active insights, creating a system of record for internal quality by storing scan histories, enabling trend analysis, and allowing manufacturers to correlate data across years and production lines.
The company is already working with some of the most prominent names in battery and electric vehicle innovation while only operating for 2+ years. After acquiring top customers like Lucid Motors (luxury EV maker) and NASA (where failure is not an option!), they announced their $10M Series A in March of 2025 led by TDK Ventures. This milestone is a testament to their rapid market traction, where Glimpse grew revenue from $0 to passing the seven figure mark, in under a year.
In the quarters ahead, the team is focused on building out their GTM motion and reaching the next product & platform milestones to enable faster testing throughput at a consistently high quality. They will also evaluate opportunities to expand beyond batteries to other mission-critical components.
Glimpse has chosen to make Boston their HQ due to its strong engineering ecosystem, a growing network of battery-focused startups, and the specialized resources of Greentown Labs where Glimpse is currently headquartered. Not too far from Detroit carmakers transitioning to EVs either! The Glimpse team is on the hunt for engineering talent with a passion for working “close to the metal” bridging the gap between cloud and edge computing.
Operators to Know:
- Bailey Buscarino, Founding Backend Engineer
- Amariah Condon, Founding Operations Engineer
- Kayla Goodale, Business Operations Associate
- Brian Loughran, Software Engineer
- Owen Miles, Founding Full Stack Engineer
- Easton Rasgon, Head of Sales
- Jim Senhert, Founding Image Processing Engineer
- Jose Rincon, Computer Vision Engineer
My investigative powers continue to need work so apologies to the Glimpse team if I missed any up & coming operators internally
Key Roles To Be Hired:
If I were interviewing here are some questions I’d ask:
- What are the key milestones for Glimpse as it decreases its throughput testing time?
- What are the biggest challenges as you scale the team and customer base?
- What is the long term vision for the company?
- What are the most important roles you’ll be looking to add in 2025 // teams that need the most help?
We’re optimizing for readability here so to learn more about Glimpse you’ll have to D.Y.O.R. I’m excited to watch this team bring more battery providers & buyers into the age of AI. All consumers applaud your efforts. See you around town!