Manufacturing · Albuquerque, New Mexico · Formation stage
Halo Materials
Onshoring the production of high-purity graphite, a critical mineral for the advanced nuclear and battery industries, using domestic feedstocks and proprietary technology
Review noteAlbuquerque startup (co-founder/CEO Darren Hau, ex-Tesla/Cruise; CTO Dr. Olaf Conrad) making battery- and nuclear-grade graphite from natural gas and waste graphite fines, incubated by Roadrunner Venture Studios and still at gram-scale lab production. Source ↗
Edge
16#115 · ▼19 in 7d
1 of 8 families
Score
Momentum23
Capital
Thesis fit94
× 0.95
Matched on air force, anode, battery, critical mineral, manufacturing
Earliness100
× 1.00
Almost no public footprint
Team–
× 0.85
No people identified yet
23 × 0.95 × 1.00 × 0.85 × 0.85 one family only = 16