Two exhausted parents built a bedside company that light, sound and routine - not screens - power to sleep. This is how Hatch grew up alongside its customers.
THE OBJECT: A Hatch Restore on the nightstand - sunrise alarm, sound machine and reading light folded into one device built to keep phones out of bed.
Hatch sells a deceptively simple promise: that better sleep can be designed. Its founding, though, came from the opposite - the disorganized exhaustion of a house that could not sleep.
Ann Crady Weiss and Dave Weiss met at BabyCenter, married, and then ran headlong into the problem that would become their company. Ann spent long nights awake with a newborn. Dave lived with chronic insomnia. The two experiences pointed at the same gap: sleep was something everyone needed and almost no one had good tools for.
They founded Hatch - then called Hatch Baby - in 2014. The first product was not the glowing orb people now recognize on nightstands; it was a smart changing pad and baby scale meant to help parents track a newborn's health. In 2016 the couple pitched on ABC's Shark Tank. The company did not walk away with the outcome founders dream about, but it walked away with something more durable: a sharper read on what parents actually wanted.
That read produced Hatch Rest, an all-in-one sound machine, night light and time-to-rise indicator for babies and toddlers. It became the product the company is known for, spreading by word of mouth through parenting circles until more than 500,000 families had used one.
Then Hatch did the thing most kids'-product companies never manage. It grew up. In 2020 it launched Restore, a bedside device for adults that combined a sunrise alarm, a sound machine and a reading light. The audience that had bought Rest for their children could now buy Restore for themselves. Hatch had followed its customers into the next stage of their lives.
What Hatch does: It designs bedside sleep devices and pairs them with an app and a subscription library. The hardware handles light and sound - a sunrise that eases you awake, a soundscape that covers a noisy street, a soft glow for a 2 a.m. feed. The software handles routine: wind-down sequences, sleep stories, meditations and alarms that you build once and repeat every night.
Who its customers are: New and expecting parents were the first market, and families with babies and toddlers remain a core audience. The Restore line widened that to adults who simply want to fall asleep and wake up better - and, increasingly, people trying to get their phones out of the bedroom.
The problem it solves: Sleep is fragmented across a drawer of gadgets - a white-noise machine here, a phone alarm there, a nightlight, a meditation app. Hatch consolidates those into one device and one routine, and treats sleep as a skill you can practice rather than a stroke of luck.
Hatch's product names track a customer's life stage - Rest for babies, Rest+ for toddlers, Restore for adults - with an app and subscription tying it all together.
All-in-one baby and toddler device: sound machine, night light, time-to-rise indicator and full app control.
Portable, rechargeable upgrade adding an audio monitor and two-way talk-to-child.
Screen-free, portable sound machine built for naps, travel and on-the-go quiet.
The first adult device: sunrise alarm, sound machine and reading light in one customizable unit.
Second-generation adult device with a better display, sleep stories, guided rest and sunset/sunrise light.
Adds physical "Big Button," Swap and pause controls to encourage phone-free sleep. Retails at $169.99.
Companion app to control devices, build wind-down routines and fine-tune light and sound.
Subscription ($4.99/mo or $49.99/yr) unlocking the full library of sounds, stories, meditations and routines.
In a market full of smart-alarm gadgets, Hatch's clearest signature is a counter-intuitive one.
The headline feature of the 2025 Restore 3 is not a screen or a sensor - it is a large physical button. Where much of consumer tech optimizes for engagement, Hatch redesigned its flagship to pull your phone out of bed: a "Big Button" for volume and snooze, a Swap button to toggle routines, and a dedicated pause. Reviewers noted the phone-free intent while also flagging that the subscription is doing real work; the routine-building features that make the device compelling sit behind Hatch+.
Versus the field: Loftie and Casper Glow compete on the smart-alarm hardware; Philips and Google Nest overlap on wake-up light and smart-home; Calm and Headspace compete on the content side. Hatch's position is the bundle - one device plus an evolving library - anchored by a decade of trust built in the parenting market that few rivals share.
Life-stage ladder. Rest, Rest+, Restore - the line grows with the customer instead of chasing a new one.
Phone-free by design. Physical controls make screen-free bedtime the default, not a setting.
Habit over hardware. The real product is the nightly routine the content sustains.
Ann Crady Weiss and Dave Weiss launch the company to make family sleep and health easier.
The company appears on Shark Tank and introduces Hatch Rest, its breakout kids' sleep device.
A portable, battery-powered Rest+ adds an audio monitor and two-way talk.
Hatch raises a $6.5M Series A with backing that includes the Amazon Alexa Fund.
Hatch expands beyond parenting with the Restore sunrise alarm and sound machine.
A subscription content library formalizes recurring revenue alongside a refined second-gen device.
New physical controls aim to keep smartphones out of the bedroom while preserving app customization.
Former SVP of consumer experience at BabyCenter; leads Hatch and is its most public voice on the science of rest.
Ann's husband and co-founder, whose own chronic insomnia helped shape the company's focus on adult sleep.
Backed by the Amazon Alexa Fund, True Ventures and Next Play Ventures; ~$13.5M raised in total.
Certified in 2024, reflecting a product-led culture organized around the idea that sleep is a skill.