Rezon launches £1,000,000 crowdfunding round for concussion headband

North East sports safety company Rezon has launched a £1m crowdfunding round to speed up international expansion of its concussion-reducing headband.

The firm’s flagship product, Halos, is a CE and UKCA certified protective headband designed to reduce concussion and sub-concussion risk in contact and collision sports.

Sub-concussive impacts are smaller repeated blows to the head that do not cause immediate symptoms but research suggests occur 500 times more often than full concussions.

The B-Corp certified business, which has sold over 2,000 units across more than 30 countries, opened its funding round through Crowdcube to support global commercialisation, expansion in grassroots and elite sport, and wider rollout into medical use cases.

Judith McMinn, chief executive and founder of Rezon, said: “Our crowdfunding launch marks a significant milestone for the future of brain protection in sport.

“For 30 years I have asked why we protect our shins and teeth in sport, but not the brain?”

“I’m very proud of the journey we have been on during these past four years, working with some incredible partners and experts, all in our mission to build a safer future for children and athletes of all abilities playing the sports they love.”

“Crowdfunding allows the public to be part of this change, because this is something that directly affects public health.

“For brain protection to work, it must scale publicly.

“We want the sports community, parents, medics, coaches, schools and clubs and athletes to own part of this journey, to protect their brain health, and the brain health of the people they love.”

Rezon Halos is a patented PPE Category II, non-helmeted headband with nine moving layers engineered to mitigate rotational forces to the brain – the forces most linked to concussion and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain condition associated with repeated head impacts.

Unlike most head protection on the market, which focuses on linear impact force and concussive impacts, Halos addresses the mode of injury increasingly linked to CTE risk and long-term neurological harm.