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Glazeworks: Building Europe’s Hardware Moonshots

15 September 2026

Summary:

Hardware is hard.

It requires capital, specialist talent, expensive equipment and the ability to bring mechanical, electrical and software engineers together to solve problems that cannot be built behind a laptop.

That is exactly what Glazeworks is building in Tallinn. In this episode of the Protect Europe Podcast, Colin sits down with Kyle, founder of Glazeworks, a hardware venture studio taking on ambitious challenges across electric mobility, autonomous systems, drones and underwater technology.

We talk about:

Why Glazeworks is building a venture studio for hardware rather than another traditional startup.
How shared engineering talent and expensive equipment can dramatically reduce the barriers to building complex physical products.
Why Tallinn and Ülemiste City provide a uniquely attractive environment for hardware innovation and testing.
Inside the Glazeworks Lab and “The Oven”, including fabrication facilities, laser cutting and welding, electronics, 3D printing and a dedicated test pool for surface and underwater vehicles.
Why Glazeworks is focused on electric mobility, autonomous vehicles, drones and unmanned underwater systems.
The ambition behind building a modular electric vehicle chassis that could make it easier and faster to create new vehicles.