The Halo Institute, a joint venture between Creighton University College of Business and Halo Creative Capital, LLC, is a talent incubator that provides entrepreneurs with the resources, strategies and business counsel necessary to dramatically increase their early chance of success.

Our goal is to assisst in lauching up to 20 viable high impact businesses a year, and in the process, further establish Omaha as a national center for entrepreneurial activity and excellence.

The Halo Institute is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering and nurturing creative and social enterprise. The Institute is located at 1022 Leavenworth Street in Omaha’s historic Old Market district – the heart of Omaha’s creative community. Housed in a 9,500 square foot warehouse once home to Butternut Coffee, Halo is ideal for co-working and inspiring creativity, collaboration, innovation and growth.

Halo Institute Facilitates:

• For profit businesses that create local jobs

• Social responsible businesses that have positive impact on  society & the environment

• Early stage businesses seeking funding

• Entrepreneurs who demonstrate the right discipline, talent & contagious passion to succeed

We seek businesses that not only have the potential to be high growth, but also will ultimately impact our society in a positive and meaningful way. We measure “societal impact” as a combination of high growth potential, likelihood to be financially sustainable in addition to impact on society.

Halo Institute Board of Directors

• Roger Fransecky, Ph.D., Apogee Group Inc.
• Anthony Hendrickson, Ph.D., Creighton University College of Business
• James Linder, UNEMED, University of Nebraska Medical Center
• Ron Quinn, Tenaska Inc.
• Roger Wells, McGrath North, LLP
• Cheryl Beamer, Property Development and former Gallup Executive
• Nick Hudson, 1869 Group, LLC