About Hatch

Hatch is a consumer software innovator founded in 2021 by entrepreneurs from Valve and Picnik. Everything we build is focused on one goal: removing technological barriers to enable creativity, productivity, and capability on the web.

With the help of AI, we turn complex and disparate technologies into intuitive, collaborative, and empowering tools. And we know that any work with AI systems can have broad implications for how humans create and collaborate. So we are constantly rethinking traditional interfaces, developing new interaction patterns, and refining our understanding of how people naturally want to work with technology.

Whether you’re an artist looking to expand your creative toolkit, a professional streamlining your workflow, or someone exploring new ways to bring your ideas to life, we’re building new interfaces to make that possible.

Here’s how we do it

We explore

Beyond trends and algorithms, we seek out unique opportunities for technological experimentation.

We break down boxes

From real life to the web, we won’t be bound by labels and chatboxes and typical streams.

We're a good time

We love making software more fun for more people, professionally and personally.

Our cofounders

Hatch is led by cofounders Darrin Massena and Mike Harrington, seasoned technology entrepreneurs and successful product leaders. Prior to Hatch, Massena and Harrington cofounded online photo editing service Picnik, which grew to 60 million monthly users worldwide and was acquired by Google in 2010. Before Picnik, Massena cofounded SpiffCode (creators of Warfare Incorporated) and Harrington cofounded Valve Software (creators of Half-Life). Since its start in 2021, Hatch has been dedicated to democratizing software and empowering creativity on the web.