About

Experienced operators, one plan

Halo Ventures is led by Bryan Allinson and staffs each engagement from a network of senior specialists.

Principal and Managing Director · founder, 2019

Bryan Allinson, MBA

Bryan brings more than 20 years of leadership in health AI and machine learning, life sciences, medical devices and health services. He works with decision makers across health systems, research institutions and industry to move complex projects through technical, regulatory and commercial obstacles.

$100M+sales in prior roles, leading go-to-market and enterprise sales for health AI/ML software

100×growth in prior roles, through long-term contracts with health systems, providers and life sciences clients

Led healthcare partnerships for Deep 6 AI with comprehensive cancer centers
Revenue programs with AdventHealth, Geisinger, University of Texas and UPMC
Launched Cernostics with Geisinger; later acquired by Castle Biosciences
Launched Lung Therapeutics with the UT Horizon Fund (University of Texas System); later acquired by Aileron Therapeutics
Raised $60M for the UT Horizon Fund, the University of Texas System venture fund
Part of the team that launched Agentase under Dr. Alan Russell (now at Amgen)
Founder of Vanquish Bio; leads Vanquish Cancer, Vanquish Biologics and Pentamer Bio

Network

The bench we bring to bear

Each engagement is staffed from people who have done the work before, at the level the work needs.

FDA regulatory affairs

Former FDA reviewer, decades of submissions

Regulatory affairs partners, some with more than 35 years of FDA experience
A former FDA CBER reviewer and inspector
Drugs, biologics, vaccines, devices and software as a medical device
Regulatory assessments, pathway strategy, IND and 510(k) planning

Clinical AI engineering

CTO-level technical leadership

De-identified imaging datasets under IRB determinations
Annotation programs with physician adjudication
Validation designed so results cannot look better than they are
Cloud and on-premises deployment with hospital IT

Clinical and research partnerships

Site networks and sponsor relationships

20+ years in global clinical operations and clinical data systems
Business development leadership at a major US health system research institute
Clinical trial site recruitment and multi-year site commitments

Clinical experts

Practicing physicians and scientists

Interventional endoscopists and specialist physicians for clinical review
University scientists in vaccines, biologics and cell therapy
Grant, budget and sponsored-program specialists

Network members work with Halo Ventures by engagement and hold their own positions elsewhere.

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