# Jake Guglin

> Jake Guglin is the co-founder and CEO of Foundation Alloy, a Cambridge, Massachusetts advanced-materials company commercializing solid-state metallurgy developed at MIT and UC Irvine. Trained in economics, philosophy, and business rather than materials science, he recognized the industrial promise of stronger metals while at MIT, later saw metal-parts supply-chain constraints at SpaceX and Blue Origin, and assembled a technical founding team to take a laboratory process from gram-scale experiments toward industrial production.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-Founder at Foundation Alloy
- **Organizations:** Foundation Alloy, Lightmatter, Blue Origin, SpaceX, MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, Outbound Ventures, Evol8tion, Interoceanic Corporation, Colgate University, MIT Sloan School of Management
- **Education:** BA, magna cum laude, Economics and Philosophy, Colgate University, MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management
- **Known for:** Co-founded Foundation Alloy and led its commercialization of solid-state metallurgy licensed from MIT and UC Irvine., Helped scale Foundation Alloy's process from gram-scale laboratory work to kilogram-scale customer production, with plans for tonnes per week., Raised a reported $22 million Series A in 2026 led by Voyager Ventures.

## Career timeline

- **2012-2014** — Worked as a natural-gas derivatives broker at ICAP.
- **2014-2015** — Worked as a physical commodity trader at Interoceanic Corporation.
- **2017-2019** — Earned an MBA at MIT Sloan and served in student entrepreneurship leadership, including as managing director of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.
- **Before 2022** — Held strategy, finance, operations, procurement, and manufacturing scale-up roles across SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Lightmatter.
- **2022** — Co-founded Foundation Alloy with Jasper Lienhard, Chris Schuh, and Tim Rupert; the company announced a $10.5 million seed round.
- **2023** — Foundation Alloy received an SBIR award for work on a molybdenum-tungsten alloy for nuclear reactor applications.
- **2025** — Foundation Alloy announced $7.5 million in additional financing to ramp production.
- **2026** — Foundation Alloy announced a $22 million Series A, new U.S. production capacity, and a commercial partnership with Kanematsu for Japan and Southeast Asia.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Foundation Alloy and led its commercialization of solid-state metallurgy licensed from MIT and UC Irvine.
- Helped scale Foundation Alloy's process from gram-scale laboratory work to kilogram-scale customer production, with plans for tonnes per week.
- Raised a reported $22 million Series A in 2026 led by Voyager Ventures.
- Served as managing director of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition in 2018.
- Received the Petersen Scholar recognition at MIT Sloan for leadership and dedication to the MIT community.
- Was selected as a StartingBloc Fellow in 2015.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Foundation Alloy announced a $22 million Series A led by Voyager Ventures to expand manufacturing capacity and move alloys from pilots into production.
- **2026-06** — The company announced plans for a 36,000-square-foot Massachusetts facility, a second factory in New Hampshire, and a modular production cell with Re:Build Manufacturing.
- **2026-06** — Foundation Alloy announced a distribution and commercial partnership with Kanematsu covering Japan and Southeast Asia.

## Links

- Website: https://foundationalloy.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeguglin
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/FoundationAlloy

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Last updated: 2026-08-25