At Hatch, validation is where potential meets reality. We connect global innovators with public safety end-users, tech domain experts, and real operational environments to rigorously test and validate technologies – to ensure they are both viable and impactful. Our collaborative validation process includes the aforementioned stakeholders to minimise barriers to co-development and is designed to de-risk innovation and accelerate meaningful adoption.
Structured Validation Framework
Co-development with Operational Stakeholders
Assessed by Tech Domain Experts
Real-World Testing Environments
Non-Equity Funding Opportunities
Our programmes are designed to match the right technologies with the right challenges, bridging innovation with real-world application through structured validation and collaboration.
Dimension X is Hatch’s flagship global open innovation challenge that balances the need for rapid proof-of-concept validation and actual operational requirements of challenges.
Deep-tech start-ups, spin-outs, scale-ups
Open
4 months
Working proof-of-concept via co-development with challenge owners
Hatch & Match is a tech curation service with the intentionality of achieving product-solution fit by directly scouting for the most viable and impactful deep-tech solutions to match well-defined public safety challenges.
Deep-tech start-ups, spin-outs, scale-ups
Open year-round
Dependent on project
Working proof-of-concept via co-development with challenge owners
In-Beta is a tech verification capability that creates objective experimental evidence of frontier technologies to de-risk their exploration into potentially modernising and transformative public safety concepts.
Frontier deep-tech start-ups, spin-outs, or scale-ups
Open
8 weeks
Working proof-of-technology via experimentation
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Marine Systems
Protective Security & Safety
Robotics, Automation & Unmanned System
Vehicle & Weapon Systems
AI
Command, Control, & Communication
Communications & Digital Infrastructure
Cloud
We welcome deep-tech solutions across a wide variety of domain areas, including and not limited to those shown below. Our approach is industry-agnostic – we will fairly assess all solutions that can be adapted to address current and emerging public safety challenges, even if the applicant does not have prior experience in the public safety space.
AI
Command, Control, & Communication
Communications & Digital Infrastructure
Cloud
Cybersecurity
Data Science & Analytics
Digital Technologies
Sensemaking & Sensors
Quantum Technologies
Space Technologies
Our approach is structured, collaborative, and designed to move quickly from concept to proof.
Our approach is structured, highly collaborative, and purpose-built to rapidly move innovations from early-stage concepts to validated, real-world solutions through co-development and close engagements with public safety stakeholders.
Our approach is structured, collaborative, and designed to move quickly from concept to proof.
Our approach is structured, highly collaborative, and purpose-built to rapidly move innovations from early-stage concepts to validated, real-world solutions through co-development and close engagements with public safety stakeholders.
We define real-world challenges with operational public safety challenge owners.
We source and curate global deep-tech solutions aligned with these needs.
We match and adapt the most suitable start-up technologies with the right use-cases.
We enable collaborative proof-of-concept/ technology validation with public safety stakeholders.
We enable testing of solutions in real-world operational contexts and environments.
We work with stakeholders to support post-programme innovation projects towards deployment.
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After 4 months of close collaboration with their HTX Champions and Home Team end-users, our 9 start-ups took the stage to pitch their proof-of-concepts at Milipol TechX 2026. From AI and quantum computing to autonomous systems and aerial emergency response, the showcase highlighted innovation pathways from validation to operational impact.
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