The call for applications for Dimension X (DX6) by Hatch has just launched from 10 Mar 2025 - 4 Apr 2025.

Hatch, the innovation centre of Singapore’s Home Team Science & Technology Agency (HTX), has worked with over 50 start-ups from around the world and across different sectors/domains to solve challenges and seed innovative capabilities for public safety and security agencies under Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs.

Check-out a quick recap of their recent Demo Day for cohort 4 of Dimension X here!

For DX6, Hatch is specifically looking for innovative technologies to address these challenge statements:

• Digital identification and reconstruction of fragmented objects at incident sites

• Hands-free, immersive real-time multi-modal situational awareness

• Real-time dynamic traffic prediction at checkpoints

• Maritime communications network for multi-node manned and unmanned assets operations

• Autonomous dynamic multi-drone orchestrator

• Real-time adaptive audio enhancement in complex environments

• Active body cooling technologies for first responders

• Non-invasive detection of objects on a person

• AI video analysis and summariser agent

• Real-time heads-up display for firefighter operations

• Out-of-the-box - Seeking highly innovative and impactful technologies relevant to public safety and security

Submit your proposals through this APPLICATION PAGE! Start-ups selected for the Dimension X program will have:

• Non-dilutive funding of SGD100K to develop a proof-of-concept (POC)

• Close collaboration with real-life end-users from public safety and security agencies and scientists/engineers from HTX

• Facilitated testing and validation of technologies in real-life public safety and security operating environments

• Networking opportunities with Singapore’s global start-up ecosystem (e.g. other start-ups, investors, corporations, government agencies, potential technology and business partners etc.)

• Opportunities to showcase technologies to globally leading public safety and security agencies and other potential end-users/customers

This is a unique opportunity to co-develop your technologies alongside real end-users and validate potential product market fit with a potential customer in a short span of time.

Applications close on 4 Apr 2025, 11pm SGT (UTC+8).

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Nordic Innovation House Singapore is a Community Partner for SLINGSHOT 2024.

Organised by EnterpriseSG, SLINGSHOT is a global startup competition that aims to develop local startups and attract high quality international startup into Singapore. In 2023, they received close to 4,700 startup application from 150 countries and this year, they are continuing their search for new and exciting startups with innovative solutions to compete in any one of their 5 challenge domains:

1) Consumer Media, Goods & Services

2) Environment, Energy & Green Technologies

3) Health & Biomedical

4) Manufacturing, Trade & Connectivity

5) Transformative Digital Technologies.

SLINGSHOT is held as part of Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH), Asia’s leading deep tech festival connecting the Global-Asia innovation ecosystem through premier thought leadership, vibrant networking and showcase events. This year, it will be held from 28 to 30 October 2024 at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.

Calling for entries until 1 July 2024!

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