Overview
Hybrid Core is a European deep tech company headquartered at Da Vincilaan 1 in Zaventem. It was registered as a besloten vennootschap on 18 August 2020 and has been an employer since January 2022. The company's platform, Smart Navigator, runs entirely within the client's own infrastructure and is built from six modules: FusionX, NetCortex, FocusVision, Synth-Terra, Q-Sentinel and AxionIQ. Target sectors are defence and national security, law enforcement, finance and banking, and energy and utilities. Hybrid Core employs 31 specialists in four teams: AI, post-quantum and cyber security, simulation and twins, and platform engineering. It reports deployments in more than 10 countries on 3 continents. Smart Navigator was named a Top Exploration by the Next Generation Internet Explorers team in October 2020, and in December 2021 the company started a collaboration with NJIT under that programme. In September 2024 Suzen received the Smart & Secure Digital Transformation CEO of the Year award at the European CEO Awards, and in April 2025 the World Economic Forum's UpLink platform listed Hybrid Core as a Top Innovator. The company presented Smart Navigator at FEINDEF 2025 in Madrid.
Stated facts & numbers
- Founded: 2020 (registered 18 August 2020)
- Headquarters: Zaventem
- Legal form: BV, enterprise number 0752.691.888
- Founder & CEO: Hasan Suzen
- Employees: 31
- Product: Smart Navigator (FusionX, NetCortex, FocusVision, Synth-Terra, Q-Sentinel, AxionIQ)
- Sectors: Defence and national security, law enforcement, finance and banking, energy and utilities
- EU projects: EuropeanCity2, INNOVADE, EuroHub4Sino, KT4D (Horizon Europe); EU-HYBNET (Horizon 2020)
- Recognition: WEF UpLink Top Innovator (2025); NGI Explorers Top Exploration (2020)
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In the news
- NESO's Winter Outlook 2026/27 forecasts a 5.9 GW surplus for Great Britain, a 9.5% buffer over peak demand. Its June Early View said 5.5 GW. The difference comes from an updated, openly disclosed methodology. Our new article looks at what that tells us: a headline margin is a chain of assumptions, and operators benefit from seeing the chain, testing it and rehearsing what happens when it shifts. Full read below. #GridResilience #EnergySecurity #CriticalInfrastructure #SmartGrid
- NESO's Winter Outlook 2026/27 forecasts a 5.9 GW surplus for Great Britain, a 9.5% buffer over peak demand. Its June Early View said 5.5 GW. The difference comes from an updated, openly disclosed methodology. Our new article looks at what that tells us: a headline margin is a chain of assumptions, and operators benefit from seeing the chain, testing it and rehearsing what happens when it shifts. Full read below. #GridResilience #EnergySecurity #CriticalInfrastructure #SmartGrid
- A record 612 proposals reached the European Defence Fund's 2026 calls, competing for €1.006 billion. Results are due by March 2027. Our new article looks at what the topic list implies: quantum-secured networks and a multi-domain operations cloud are the layer that makes separate platforms act as one force. That layer needs fused sources, classification that travels with every entity, and post-quantum protection from the start. Smart Navigator was built for it: seven module, one ecosystem, air-gapped and sovereign. Full read below.
- A record 612 proposals reached the European Defence Fund's 2026 calls, competing for €1.006 billion. Results are due by March 2027. Our new article looks at what the topic list implies: quantum-secured networks and a multi-domain operations cloud are the layer that makes separate platforms act as one force. That layer needs fused sources, classification that travels with every entity, and post-quantum protection from the start. Smart Navigator was built for it: seven module, one ecosystem, air-gapped and sovereign. Full read below.
- On 13 October the Netherlands confirmed its ban on a US company's acquisition of Solvinity, whose infrastructure underpins part of the national DigiD identity system. Nothing about the service had changed. Only the owner of its operator would have. In our new article we look at what that means for critical services that no screening office will ever review, and why Smart Navigator, with Native AI and post-quantum protection across seven modules, is deployed in the customer's own environment so that sovereignty survives a change
- On 20 November the revised Consumer Credit Directive starts to apply, and where a credit assessment is automated, customers can ask for a human to review it. Behind that sits a harder question for lenders: can every decision be explained, with the rule that applied? Our new article sets out where credit stacks tend to fail that test, and how FusionX, NetCortex, Synth-Terra and AxionIQ work together inside the bank's own perimeter to answer it. Full read below. #RiskManagement #RegTech #ExplainableAI
- Reuters reports that European utilities are testing counter-drone systems, and some want the authority to use them. Eurelectric says heating outages from hybrid attacks are an increasingly practical possibility this winter. The technology, Reuters finds, is maturing faster than the rules. Our new article looks at what surrounds detection: one picture of the network, the rulebook modelled so answers cite the clause, and the response rehearsed before it is needed. FusionX, FocusVision, AxionIQ and Synth-Terra, with data that
- Reuters reports that European utilities are testing counter-drone systems, and some want the authority to use them. Eurelectric says heating outages from hybrid attacks are an increasingly practical possibility this winter. The technology, Reuters finds, is maturing faster than the rules. Our new article looks at what surrounds detection: one picture of the network, the rulebook modelled so answers cite the clause, and the response rehearsed before it is needed. FusionX, FocusVision, AxionIQ and Synth-Terra, with data that
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