defunct · consumer-wellness · neurostimulation
Halo Neuroscience
Train smarter, faster, longer.
Defunct San Francisco startup that made the Halo Sport headphone-form-factor tDCS device for athletic-performance "neuropriming". Wound down in 2022; technology assets acquired by Flow Neuroscience.
At a glance
- Legal name
- Halo Neuroscience, Inc.
- Aliases
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- Type
- defunct
- Focus areas
- consumer-wellness, neurostimulation, neuromodulation
- Founded
- Defunct
- Spinout of
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- HQ city
- San Francisco
- HQ country
- US
- Employees
- —
- Flagship device
- halo-sport-2
- Product lines
- 2
- Website
- haloneuro.com
- Blog
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- Support
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Devices
People
Founders
Daniel Chao
Co-Founder, CEO · departed
Brett Wingeier
Co-Founder, CTO · departed
Milestones
Halo Neuroscience founded
Halo Sport launches
Halo Sport 2 launches
Operations wound down; assets acquired by Flow Neuroscience
Reputation
Polarising. Halo's marketing claims of 'neuropriming' were criticised by independent researchers, but the product brought consumer-friendly tDCS into mainstream sport for the first time and remains a reference design for headphone-form-factor stimulation.