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Uncover new applications for your work

Learn about new companies and entire industries that share your interests and are actively seeking your skills and expertise for short- and long-term engagements.

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Outreach

Leverage the reach & resources of industry

Capitalize on benefits available to innovators with every opportunity, from funding and expertise to technologies, data sets and compounds.

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Evaluation

Build lasting relationships with industry

Submitting a proposal is the beginning and not the end of the relationship. Join the sponsor’s private network, identify shared interests and move science forward together.

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From gene editing to microbial research, see how Bayer Crop Science moves science forward.

Academia, startups, industry and suppliers—R&D partners use Halo to bring new products to market faster.

Academic, startup, and industry innovators use Halo to move science forward.

Industry Partner

We were originally drawn to Halo for its proposal management and collaboration features, which streamlined the process and saved us time we’d typically spend on set up and administration. What we hadn’t expected was how much Halo would help expand our own network of researchers across the world that we can now leverage for future opportunities.

Phil Taylor, PhD

Open Innovation Lead

Bayer Crop Science

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Industry Partner

Working with the Halo platform has enabled us to make connections with key innovators and partners that can help support different product development goals across Caterpillar. I really appreciated that you can keep all the connections you make, evaluate them, and decide different paths forward for each one. In this way, you get much more value out of the subscription.

Santiago Andrade Aparicio

Energy Transition Strategy Manager

Caterpillar

Industry Partner

We tried different platforms in the past but were underwhelmed. With Halo, we have been impressed by the ease of connecting with on-target contributing experts, making it an efficient, seamless and focused research opportunity discover experience.

Joerg Bauer

Head of Global R&D Seed Treatment

BASF

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Academic Researcher

Through Halo I am able learn about opportunities with great companies. More importantly, it makes it possible to apply to those projects that interest me. The platform's timely email alerts and application status reminders make me comfortable with the process. I know the platform will have a bright future.

Tengxiang Lian

Research Associate

South China Agricultural University

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Industry Partner

Halo has provided us a platform to reach out to a worldwide network of experts for critical problems we are trying to solve. Their interface allows for an efficient means to engage outside collaborators, review and triage proposals, and find the right partner.

Alex Goddard, PhD

External Sciences Lead

Takeda

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University Administrator

I think all of these funding opportunities are really interesting. Not only are they in fields where my university excels, but they are on topics that are strategically important to university leadership. Thank you for developing the platform.

Elizabeth Ocampo

Director of Development

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Academic Researcher

Through Halo I've been able to connect and collaborate with partners that see applications for my research in areas I hadn't imagined. I submitted a brief research concept through the Halo website, and ending up making a pitch to a company I knew nothing about previously. Now we are in the final rounds of negotiating a quarter million dollar research project.

Paul Westerhoff, PhD, PE, BCEE

Principal Investigator

Arizona State University

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Academic Researcher

Halo is a unique platform that helps me connect with potential industry partners and gets me to know their very specific needs. Submitting a proposal on Halo was also extremely easy. Shortly after submitting, I was notified that it had been advanced to the next round.

Haoran Wei, PhD

Principal Investigator

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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University Administrator

This is exactly the resource that my partnership office needs to act as a navigator/matchmaker for research and industry.

Olusola Fasunwon

Director, Research and Innovation Services

University of Lethbridge

Industry Partner

Halo has given us a lot of new and fresh ideas that line up with our business needs, great visibility into what universities are focused on, and who’s doing what in our field. It's also given us much broader reach than through traditional channels. That’s been exciting.

Matt Muller, PhD

Director of Applied Innovation

Baxter

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Industry Partner

We were impressed with the different approaches universities brought forward. Some ideas we had considered before, but others were new to us and opened our eyes to possibilities we hadn’t thought about.

Julie Drainville

Global Director of Sensory and Innovation

Edlong Flavor Solutions

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Industry Partner

We were engaging with several other companies whose capabilities have become 100% obsolete. Halo is building on proprietary data, real ecosystems, real connection and creating real value. This capability is very unique. There is no overlap with anything else.

Dimitris Lykomitros

Innovation Collaboration & Partnerships

Cargill

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Academic Researcher

I have already told my colleague about Halo. It has many benefits: 1. A one-stop shop for many solutions; 2. Great offers from many companies; 3. Easy to apply for RFPs; 4. I found it simple and easy to use.

Simerjeet Kaur

Principal Agronomist

Punjab Agricultural University

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Startup Researcher

NeoChloris is totally burned out applying to government SBIR, FOA from DOE, NSF, etc. Our best successes have been dealing directly with client companies to solve their problems, so your tool is a great “match-making” site for a company like ours! We don't pursue basic research, only high level applied research with practical/economical results.

Charles Stack

CTO

NeoChloris

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Startup Researcher

Halo gave my company access to a wide range of collaborating opportunities. This allowed me to partner with various companies that I didn't otherwise have access to. I love how there are always new partnership opportunities that only take under an hour to apply for.

Linda May-Zhang

Vice President of Innovation

Blue California Ingredients

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Startup Researcher

I am amazed at the process efficiency and how the opportunity was brought to my attention in the first place.

Robert Evans

CEO

MChem Tech, Malaysia

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Industry Partner

Our goal was to extend our network and to identify new partners for R&D projects in the field of Quantum Machine Learning. And this is what we reached with halo.science. Two thirds of the applicants were outside our own network!

Nicole Klein-Stocké

Community Management Next Generation Computing

BASF

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Industry Partner

Halo made it easy to source proposals to our opportunity, share feedback with colleagues and connect directly with the researchers to learn more. The fact that we identified more than 30 proposals for further screening speaks to their quality and relevance.

Sri Narayan-Sarathy, PhD

Senior Principle Scientist

PepsiCo

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Industry Partner

Halo’s platform simplifies tech scouting and partnering. In a matter of weeks, we received high quality proposals that aligned with our interests. Halo’s experts also helped us evaluate proposals and narrow down final selections. Although our goal was to fund one project, we were so impressed with the caliber of submissions we're considering funding three.

Mark Sweeney

Product Manager

Oldcastle Infrastructure

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Industry Partner

We partnered with Halo to broaden our connections to the global scientific and business innovation community, and to communicate our commitment to people, planet, and productivity. The Halo ecosystem helped us reach a new and diverse group of scientists, and the interface made managing records and communications simple.

Warren Schafer

VP, Global R&D

Valent

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Industry Partner

We excel at reactive customer requests for new product development within our core expertise, but lack a pipeline of transformational innovation projects. To build out a team to take on the tasks of soliciting, vetting and organizing external open innovation requests would be prohibitively expensive. By having this all organized in one platform, Halo has saved us countless hours.

John Manderfield

Innovation & Design Fellow

Altium Packaging

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Industry Partner

Using Halo we’ve been able to find new research and experts that none of our other tools could find. That has been a major benefit, unearthing what is up and coming and beneath the surface. The other big value-driver has been efficiency and how streamlined the process is through Halo.

Maxine Roman

Lead, R&D Innovation Collaboration & Partnerships

Kraft Heinz

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Startup Researcher

Quick and easy. Halo's platform solves the biggest pain points that researchers face - the time it takes to write a proposal and the excessive time it takes to hear anything back. I submitted a proposal and in less than a week was on the phone with the industry partner.

Khalid Alam, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO

Stemloop

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Academic Researcher

Working with the Halo platform made my life a lot easier! My proposal was rapidly screened, and I was connected quickly to the sponsoring entity. In addition, and very importantly, the initial proposal was short and focused, which saved me (and I'm sure the sponsor) a lot of time. I certainly hope that more sponsors will use this platform - it will make the proposal process a (little) less painful for everyone!