Seed round · ODM partnership 2026

Every child, accounted for — from gate to guardian.

HaloLink is a tuition-bundled school OS powering the HaloBand 4G smartwatch and the HaloCard smart student ID. Attendance, safe dismissal, classroom focus and early-years wellness, on one wrist.

$1.2B

TAM · SSA private schools

22M

Private K-12 pupils, Nigeria

₦18k

SaaS / student / term

68%

Gross margin at Y3

Market opportunity

Nigeria first. Emerging markets next.

Tuition-backed adoption

Schools add the device to termly fees. Zero retail CAC — one proprietor contract onboards 300–1,500 families.

Drop-off traffic bottleneck

Lagos gates see 40–90 min dismissal queues. NFC handover cuts verification to under 6 seconds per child.

Safety is the purchase driver

Parents rank child safety #1 in school selection. Verified-guardian pickup becomes a premium differentiator.

5-year rollout

ARR (USD millions) · Lagos → Abuja → Accra → Nairobi

124× ARR Y1→Y5

For ODM partners

Hardware architecture

Platform: White-label 4G · RTOS (Pre-Nursery/Nursery SKU) or AOSP Android Go (Primary/JSS SKU)
LTE bands: EMEA Cat-1 bis: B1 / B3 / B7 / B8 / B20 / B28 · VoLTE
Gate access: NFC (ISO 14443A) + BLE 5.0 beacons at school gates & classrooms
Data budget: Micro-packet MQTT telemetry · <50 MB / month per device
Safety: Strap-tamper sensor, skin-temp IR, IP67, hardware SOS crown

Battery-saver engineering

4–5 days per charge

Deep-sleep standby

Modem PSM + eDRX; MCU idles at ~0.4 mA between events.

Event-triggered waking

Wakes only on NFC tap, SOS, temp threshold, or tamper interrupt.

School-hours GPS shutoff

Inside geofence 8:00–14:00, GPS off; BLE beacons give room-level location.

Multi-day result

620 mAh cell: 4.5 days typical vs. 1.2 days on consumer kids' watches.

Unit economics

Hardware at cost. Margin in SaaS.

Device

₦38,000

one-time, bundled in first-term fees

ODM BOM + landed$19.40

Retail to school$24.00

Hardware margin19%

Halo Care SaaS

₦18,000

per student / per term

Data + cloud cost₦2,100

School revenue share15%

Contribution margin73%

Typical 600-pupil school

₦32.4M

annual recurring revenue

Payback per school4.1 months

LTV : CAC11.6×

Term churn (pilot)2.3%

Verified corporate credentials

Built and owned by Al-Halaal Digital Innovations Ltd

HaloLink platform, HaloBand smartwatch and HaloCard smart ID are developed in Nigeria and protected by IP and patent filings.

Company: Al-Halaal Digital Innovations Ltd
RC Number: 9279445
Registered address: Kaduna, Nigeria
Email: alhalaaldigitalinnovations@gmail.com
Phone: +234 812 521 4880