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 challenge-solution fit by directly scouting for the most viable and impactful deep-tech solutions to match clearly defined public safety challenges.
Deep-tech start-ups, spin-outs, scale-ups
Open year-round (invite only)
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
Twice/thrice a year (invite only)
8 weeks
Working proof-of-technology via experimentation
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Marine Systems
Protective Security & Safety
Robotics, Automation & Unmanned System
Vehicle & Weapon Systems
Biometrics & Profiling
CBRNE
Forensics
Human Factors & Simulation
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 start-up does not have significant experience in public safety.
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 proofs-of-concept at Milipol TechX 2026. From AI and quantum computing to autonomous systems and aerial emergency response, our cohort showcased how rapid innovation and validation can create impact.
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Dimension X
Whether you are building breakthrough technologies or are seeking innovations for real-world challenges, as long as you are interested in advancing the future of public safety, we want to hear from you.
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