HEXA START
Hexa start is where ambitious founders turn high-potential ideas into exceptional companies. We provide the team, the methodology, and the network to take you from 0 to 1—faster and with higher odds of success.
You’ll go from 0 to 1 and benefit from everything you need to build a globally significant company.
In 12 months you’ll have...
We fund your first 12 months and provide much more than capital with...
Our team is made up of former successful entrepreneurs and experts across tech, product, GTM, brand, legal, and finance. Think of it as your extended co-founding team you can rely on. Because we believe that a company’s success hinges on the people behind it, we’ll surround you with the best.
With 40+ companies launched, we know what works. You’ll follow our high-velocity routines—weekly sprints, quarterly goals presented at DemoTime, and structured methodologies across all key areas—helping you move faster and execute with precision.
From day one, gain access to top investors, design partners, journalists, top-tier talent and a powerful alumni network. We don’t just introduce you—we manage the process, ensuring you connect with the right people at the right time.
Launching with Hexa immediately gave us a headstart. As soon as we got started, we had access to talent, a network of potential customers, and help from everyone in the core team. It’s been invaluable.
Hexa really sped up our 0 to 1 phase. We made key product and GTM decisions with very fast iteration loops. Access to the core team’s resources, the wider talent pool, and the Hexa brand made it way easier to reach product market fit.
What stuck out to me was their help with product and design. Early on, you have a product that is intuitive and looks great, which acts as a green flag for customers. This is rare. They were also invaluable in terms of fundraising and hiring.
Founders who build with Hexa don’t just start companies, they build category leaders. See how our companies outperform the market.
What we’re currently working on
As attackers use AI to automate their attacks, we need to respond with AI to automate our defenses. We aim to build an AI-native platform that transforms traditional penetration testing into a self-serve 24/7 working AI pen-tester on your team.
Founders struggle to access fast, reliable legal help when building their startups. We aim to create an AI-first legal copilot: a self-serve workspace where they can draft, review, and manage documents using trusted templates, real-time guidance, and collaborative tools to replace weeks of back-and-forth with same-day clarity.
Legacy vertical software is packed with valuable data but limited by outdated workflows. We aim to build AI-powered agents that sit on top of these systems—automating tasks, streamlining operations, and unlocking hidden efficiency across industries like Real Estate, Healthcare, Legal, and Manufacturing.
Private investment managers face weeks-long delays and complex bureaucracy when securing ISINs for their funds and securities. We aim to streamline ISIN allocation into a self-service platform: providing automated application processing, real-time status tracking, and seamless regulatory filing to transform a 3-week process into same-day approval.
Insurance brokers lose hours to manual work that generic CRMs weren’t built to handle. We aim to create the first AI-native CRM for insurance: automating policy comparisons, renewal strategies, and commission tracking to turn back-office chaos into streamlined, high-conversion workflows.
With new EU regulations reshaping digital identity, there's a growing need for privacy-preserving verification solutions. We aim to offer a Zero-Knowledge Proof API that allows merchants and websites to verify customer attributes, such as age or residency, without ever accessing or storing their actual identity.
What do we look for in founders?
We're in the business of partnering with people for whom launching a company isn't just a choice, but a calling; people who will create their company one day, with or without us. Besides this drive, there are specific traits we value: mindsets, soft skills, and qualities we’ve seen fuel successful startups time and time again. These boil down to ambition, humility, and execution. While there are always exceptions, they’re the attributes shared by many of our founders who have gone on to create some of the world’s leading software companies.
For a deep-dive on the profiles and qualities we look for in founders, read this.
What is the journey of a founder?
The journey at Hexa typically lasts 12 months. Every journey is different, but all startups reach the same milestones during their time at Hexa: getting matched with an idea, finding a cofounder, building an MVP, finding first customers, hiring a team, launching publicly, raising a seed round, and finally, becoming independent.
How involved is Hexa in each startup?
Hexa's Start track is deeply involved in each project, providing hands-on support over a 12-month period. Our team works alongside founders in key areas like product development, design, strategy, go-to-market planning, recruiting, and funding. The focus is on building strong, independent companies, both from an operational and financial perspective. We cover all costs until the company becomes independent. We do not provide shared resources in consulting mode to independent companies, nor do we provide funding to independent companies.
As for our partners, they contribute significantly to strategic decision-making, shaping the business's trajectory, and addressing complex challenges head-on, ensuring a blend of independence and expert guidance for the founders we support. Founders are in the driving seat, but need to remain open to the perspectives around them.
What does the Hexa team look like?
The Hexa team supports each project on recruiting, product, design, marketing, sales, finance, legal, and more strategic topics. Most importantly, the priority of each core team member is to help build a fully independent team for each project. It's also worth noting that we don't have software engineers in the core team working on new products. This means that each new startup's product will be built by engineers who have been recruited specifically for this company.
How does it really work?
The startup will work every day from our office, literally sitting on the same bench alongside the Hexa core team. This means we work together and interact on a daily basis on all topics: product, design, recruiting, go-to-market, fundraising, team management, etc.
To ensure that we keep the right pace of delivery and that everybody is on the same page, we have a weekly sprint organization that applies to all topics (product of course, but also business, go-to-market, etc). These sprints are supported by weekly routines: kick-offs, product, recruiting and, go-to-market meetings, as well as ad hoc meetings to dig into specific questions.
We have a quarterly meeting called Demotime, where each project makes a presentation to the Hexa team and all the other startup teams to take a step back on their progress and define the 3 month roadmap.
Find out more about startup studios here.