My name is Michael Halls-Moore. I am a technology entrepreneur and private investor. Originally an aeronautical engineer in academia, I made the transition to the technology startup world where I have created web businesses with total visitors in excess of 10 million.

"Michael Halls-Moore is a man on a mission."
- Matt Brown, Editor, The Londonist

I'm currently the founder of QuarkGluon, a business consultancy helping financial technology startups with formation, funding, development and marketing. If you are interested in a business consultation, please email mike@quarkgluon.com. QuarkGluon also produces financial products, the most prominent of which is QuantStart, a leading resource portal for quantitative analysts.

Background

I graduated in 2005 from the University of Warwick with a first-class Masters degree in Mathematics, then proceeded to Imperial College London to gain a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering. My thesis was on the efficiency of hypersonic airbreathing engines at off-design conditions. During my PhD course I started BuyMeToTheStars.com, which was an early incarnation of crowdfunding (before the term existed!), to help me gain a ticket on a suborbital spaceflight.

After graduating in 2008 I co-founded PopJam, an angel-funded social network. In December 2008 we launched SockAndAwe, a global website hit parodying George Bush, which was later acquired. In 2010 I returned to my mathematical roots and went to work for a startup hedge fund, Oxalyst Systems LLP, where we applied statistical data analysis, trading techniques and portfolio management to internet data. Since then I have been concentrating on a portfolio of financial, social media and political businesses.

Science, space exploration, technology, finance and entrepreneurship are my passions. I started this blog in 2009 to share my knowledge of these topics with others.

Other

Outside of entrepreneurship, I thoroughly enjoy mathematics, science and space exploration. In particular, I enjoy space propulsion engineering and am currently in the early stages of designing a low-thrust liquid-fuel rocket engine as well as developing computational fluid dynamics software, called GodunovSPH to help with the rocketry design.

If I'm not creating web businesses or designing rocket engines, I can be found climbing mountains, mostly in the UK, but sometimes in the Alps.

Get In Touch

If you would like to get in touch with me, please send me an email to mike@quarkgluon.com and I'll get back to you.