HALOHEALTH
Helping people live longer, healthier lives.
- Biotechnology and drug development
- AI-enabled precision medicine
- Preventive health, diagnostics and wellness
Halo Impact Group
Essential systems
for life.
We build and back the companies advancing planetary and human health.
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Our perspective
From orbit
to individual.
Humanity’s future depends on the health of people and the planet. Halo exists to strengthen the essential systems that sustain both, through the companies we build and back.
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Where we work
Specialist platforms.
Essential companies.
We focus on the systems most fundamental to humanity's future. Within each, Halo possesses exceptional specialist teams, deep domain expertise and capital to build and back companies capable of transforming them.
HALOCLEAN TECH
Building the clean, resilient energy systems required to power an electrified and AI-driven world.
- Power generation and storage
- Energy infrastructure for AI and data centres
- Grid resilience and decarbonisation
HALOWATER
Building scalable solutions to the global water crisis.
- Atmospheric water generation
- Advanced filtration and treatment
- Decentralised water infrastructure
HALOOCEAN
Technologies and projects that protect and restore the ocean.
- Ocean restoration
- Blue carbon
- Ocean technology and infrastructure
HALOMOBILITY
Building the mobility systems and intelligent machines that will move the physical world.
- Electric and autonomous mobility
- Robotics and Physical AI
- Fleet and charging infrastructure
HALOX
Breakthrough technologies for humanity’s future.
We back companies pursuing bold solutions to problems that conventional approaches have yet to solve.
- AI-enabled scientific discovery
- Next-generation computing
- Breakthrough science and engineering
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How we work
We build.
We back.
Halo combines investment with company building. We start businesses, work alongside founders and bring together the capital, expertise and commercial relationships needed to grow.
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Build
Build from the ground up. Or alongside founders.
We create new ventures and partner with existing businesses to develop their commercial potential. Our operators help assemble teams, bring products to market, establish partnerships and build the operations needed to scale.
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Back
Capital that fits the business.
Through Halo Capital, we invest alongside long-term investment partners across venture capital and private equity, using equity and debt structures suited to each business. Sector expertise informs both our investment decisions and the support we provide.
Halo Capital
The investment arm of Halo Impact Group, backing Halo's specialist platforms and exceptional external companies.
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The team
The people
behind Halo.
Group-wide investment and operating leadership, supported by specialist partners within each Halo platform.
Group & platform team
Founder & Group Managing Partner
Rhod Needham
Founder and investor who has built global businesses across manufacturing, distribution and technology, with 15 years working in Asia. Founding team member of Pulse, a $60m US venture fund with a NASA partnership.
Chief Investment Officer
Will Howard Davies
Investment professional with more than 25 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and PIMCO. Former Head of Green Finance at the UK Government’s BEIS department, he has originated and invested tens of billions of dollars in structured and asset-backed finance. Chartered Accountant and CFA.
Partner
Bob Macdonald
Former Wood Group executive who led its $1.8bn Specialist Technical Solutions business across 10 service lines and 8,000 employees. His expertise spans automation, machine learning and engineering, including Tesla Model 3 production.
Legal and Operations
Brian Guzman
Founder of Guzman Advisory Partners and former Partner and General Counsel at Indus Capital Partners, where he spent 15 years. He leads fund structuring, governance and legal strategy across the group.
Investment Team
Darren Chappel
CIO of multi family office. Investor with 19 years of capital-markets experience across public and private markets. Former macro trader at Moore Capital and Wellington Management, he focuses on alternative investments and institutional due diligence. CFA, CAIA and CIPM.
Investment Director, Halo Health
Everett Kamin
Healthcare investor with more than 25 years of experience across investment banking, private equity, venture capital and board leadership. He has completed more than 100 direct investments totalling over $50bn across 30 countries.
Technology
Carter Laren
Serial entrepreneur and engineer with more than 25 years of experience building hardware and software systems. His exits include BD+ Blu-ray security and Cryptography Research. He invests through Gateway Venture Capital and advises technology companies.
Africa
Leslie Nelson
Business leader with more than 28 years of experience across energy, infrastructure and finance. Former Managing Director for Africa at New Fortress Energy and CEO of GE Power Africa, where he led an approximately $1bn business.
Advisors
Specialist experience brought in around the work.
Advisor
Tenzin Seldon
Founder and Managing Partner of Pulse Fund and co-founder of a US net-negative infrastructure company. She advises organisations including Marathon Digital Holdings, Stanford Human-Centered AI and One Earth. Rhodes Scholar and World Economic Forum Global Shaper.
Advisor
Bill Warren
Silicon Valley entrepreneur with a $1bn IPO and multiple M&A outcomes. He has scaled technical hardware and software companies and financed venture-backed growth. Graduate of Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Advisor
David Pleasance
Former senior partner at Deloitte with 30 years of experience in value creation across life sciences, healthcare, biotech, manufacturing, energy, financial services and telecoms. Previously CFO at Imperial Chemical Industries, he led teams that generated billions in enterprise value.
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Geography
Where our work
matters most.
Halo focuses on the United States, Europe, and Africa — the regions where our experience, our network, and our model can create the most meaningful change.
