HAT - the Hub of All Things

What HAT - the Hub of All Things does

HAT is a UK-based, Cambridge-headquartered decentralized personal data infrastructure company founded in 2016. Its core product, the HAT Microserver, is a self-sovereign personal data container technology built on more than $50 million of UK research funding. The platform enables individuals to own, control, and monetize their personal data, with a deployment protocol that is currently patent pending. Architecture combines open-source standards with a proprietary deployment layer and is delivered as self-hostable or hosted infrastructure.

The company operates through a three-entity ecosystem: the HAT Community Foundation, a non-profit body functioning as ecosystem regulator; Dataswyft Technology, which holds intellectual property; and Dataswyft Network, the operating entity. Revenue is generated through HAT Microserver hosting services on a recurring subscription basis, with the Dataswyft API Platform extending monetization beyond hosting into a developer-facing API surface. Go-to-market is bifurcated: self-service via dataswyft.io for individuals and developers, and enterprise demos via dataswyft.com for B2B customers, supported by HATLAB Studio for partner and developer onboarding.

HAT targets five customer segments: individuals seeking self-sovereign data ownership, enterprises and SMBs requiring data infrastructure, universities conducting research, government bodies, and startups building on the platform. The offering is horizontal data infrastructure rather than vertical-specific, and the company states global operations without disclosed regional specifics. No pricing, headcount, funding, or revenue figures are publicly disclosed.

Name

HAT - the Hub of All Things

Legal name

Hub-of-All-Things

Website

https://hubofallthings.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Short description

HAT is a UK-based decentralized personal data infrastructure company offering the HAT Microserver platform, enabling individuals and enterprises to own and control personal data through subscription-hosted services built on $50m+ of UK research.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Personal Data Infrastructure

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

akta.pro primary industry

NFT Infrastructure APIs & Indexing (NFT data APIs, indexing, search, analytics) (FSAPAFAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

NFT Storage & Media Delivery (IPFS/Arweave pinning, media optimization, DRM-like gating) (FSAPAFAI)

Keywords

• Personal data platform
• Decentralized data server
• Self-sovereign data
• Data privacy infrastructure
• API data management

Headquarters

HQ city

Cambridge

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. HAT Microserver Hosting: Dataswyft Network operates the Dataswyft API Platform under license, hosting HAT Microservers and providing data accounts as-a-service. Revenue derived from hosting services for HAT Microservers.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

HAT provides the HAT Microserver, a cloud-native decentralized data server technology that confers full legal IP rights of personal data to individuals or legal entities, enabling self-sovereign data as a new asset class. On top of the HAT Microserver, the Dataswyft API Platform allows data producers (enterprises, SMBs) to mobilize customer data while maintaining source of truth and enables compensation for data usage. HAT Microservers are hosted by Dataswyft and are fully portable across cloud systems.

Product overview

HAT - the Hub of All Things offers a decentralized data infrastructure centered on the HAT Microserver, which enables individuals and organizations to legally own their personal data. The core offering is the HAT Microserver (a cloud-native decentralized data server) with the Dataswyft API Platform built on top of it. The ecosystem includes the HAT Community Foundation (non-profit regulator), Dataswyft Technology (IP owner), and Dataswyft Network (network operator). The technology separates data storage from application services, enabling self-sovereign data as a new asset class.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• HAT Microserver A cloud-native, decentralized data server technology that confers full legal IP rights of data to individuals or any legal entity, enabling self-sovereign data as a new asset class. HAT Microservers are hosted by Dataswyft and are fully portable across cloud systems. Intended for individuals, enterprises, small businesses, governments, universities, and startups that need private, governed personal data infrastructure.
• Dataswyft API Platform A platform built on the HAT Microserver that enables self-sovereign data management, allowing data producers (enterprises, SMBs) to mobilize customer data while maintaining source of truth, and enabling data producers to be compensated for the use of their data. Regulated by the HAT Community Foundation; open-sourced technical code with proprietary deployment protocols.

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• HAT Community FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe HAT Community Foundation (HCF) is a non-profit organisation promoting the use of HAT Microservers by individuals, startups, corporations, universities and government. It is the regulator of the Dataswyft API platform and represents the community of HAT owners and HAT partners globally.
• Dataswyft TechnologycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDataswyft Technology built on the open-sourced HAT Microserver technology to create the IP and blueprints for the Dataswyft API platform. It is the IP owner of the technology and frameworks.
• Dataswyft NetworkcoreTechnology or IntegrationDataswyft Network operates the Dataswyft API Platform under license, hosting HAT Microservers and providing data accounts as-a-service. It is responsible for the speed, access and quality of self-sovereign data used by its network of applications and websites.
• HATLAB StudiominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartners in the HAT ecosystem provide tools, data wallets and various other technologies to enable better usage of HAT Microservers. The community works together within HATLAB Studio.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Inrupt (Solid): Inrupt, founded by Tim Berners-Lee, commercializes the Solid decentralized data platform — the most direct conceptual peer to HAT, with the same thesis of giving individuals ownership of personal data via decentralized personal data stores (Pods).
• Digi.me: Digi.me is a personal data platform that lets individuals aggregate and share their data with businesses under their control — a direct competitor to HAT in the consumer-facing personal data ecosystem category.
• Meeco: Meeco provides a personal data ecosystem with self-sovereign identity and data vault capabilities, positioning itself as a platform for individuals and enterprises to manage personal data exchange — a direct peer to HAT's microserver model.

Emerging players

• Datawallet: Datawallet is a blockchain-based personal data marketplace that lets users monetize their data — overlapping with HAT's 'self-sovereign data as asset class' thesis but using a different underlying architecture.
• Streamr: Streamr is a decentralized real-time data network for IoT and messaging. It overlaps with HAT's decentralized data infrastructure theme but targets a different primary use case (live data streams vs. personal data ownership).
• Ocean Protocol: Ocean Protocol is a Web3 data exchange protocol enabling data sharing and monetization while preserving privacy. It overlaps with HAT on the self-sovereign data marketplace thesis, focused on data assets rather than individual PII vaults.
• Mine: Mine helps consumers discover and reclaim their personal data from companies, overlapping with HAT's value proposition of restoring data ownership, but Mine focuses on discovery/deletion rather than decentralized storage.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Purview: Microsoft Purview is a unified data governance and compliance platform serving enterprise customers. It competes in the data governance layer of HAT's value proposition but as part of a much broader portfolio, without the decentralized ownership model.
• Datavant: Datavant is a health data connectivity and privacy platform enabling record-linking while preserving privacy. It overlaps with HAT's enterprise data mobilization thesis in healthcare, but operates a centralized privacy-preserving model rather than decentralized personal data stores.
• Snowflake: Snowflake is a dominant cloud data platform. While not a direct competitor in self-sovereign data, it addresses enterprise data sharing and governance at massive scale and represents the centralized incumbent that HAT must displace or complement.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hubofallthings
• Facebookfacebook.com/hubofallthings

Revenue estimate

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Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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