Hair technology startup Halo has secured $7 million in funding to accelerate production of HaloBraid, a patent-pending device.

HaloBraid aims to help salons speed up braiding with its first device, slated to launch later this year, that acts a braiding assistant for professional stylists.

Robotics hair-braiding startup HaloBraid has raised a $7 million seed round to modernize textured hair care with automation. Alexis Ohanian’s venture capital firm, Seven Seven Six,

HaloBraid aims to help salons speed up braiding with its first device, slated to launch later this year, that acts as a braiding assistant for professional stylists.

Halo has secured $7 million in funding for HaloBraid, a groundbreaking device designed to help stylists finish braids five times faster, enhancing salon productivity.

Biomechanical engineer Yinka Ogunbiyi has raised a $7 million seed round for a patent-pending braid assist device for professional stylists.

Halo Braid is the only automated hair braider for Black hair. You start the braid. Halo finishes it.

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Halo has appointed Vernon François, a renowned hairstylist, as its first Creative Engineer to enhance hair technology for textured hair with the HaloBraid device.

HaloBraid aims to help salons speed up braiding with its first device, slated to launch later this year, that acts as a braiding assistant for professional stylists.

Yinka Ogunbiyi is a Nigerian-American entrepreneur, biomedical engineer and Harvard-trained innovator whose invention, HaloBraid, is poised to transform the global hair-braiding industry. The post Yinka Ogunbiyi: Meet 27 year old Nigerian-American engineer behind the world’s first braid-assist robot appeared first on Nairametrics .

The capital will support manufacturing, engineering expansion, and the commercial launch of HaloBraid

Box. Boho. Knotlesss. Most Black women understand exactly what those words refer to: braided hairstyles. The thousand-year-old ritual is practically a rite of passage, and many Black women and girls even today sit in salon chairs, up to 12 hours at a stretch, as a stylist weaves patterns into their hair.  But that’s also the problem. For thousands of years, hair braiding has been a manual task.

HaloBraid aims to help salons speed up braiding with its first device, slated to launch later this year, that acts as a braiding assistant for professional stylists.

HaloBraid, a robotics startup that aims to speed up the braiding process, has raised $7 million in a seed round led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s venture firm, Seven Seven Six. AlleyCorp an…

HaloBraid aims to cut braid appointments in half, ease the physical toll on stylists, and give Black women back their

Box. Boho. Knotlesss. Most Black women understand exactly what those words refer to: braided hairstyles. The thousand-year-old ritual is practically a rite of passage, and many Black women and girls even today sit in salon chairs, up to 12 hours at a stretch, as a stylist weaves patterns into their hair.  But that’s also the problem. For thousands of years, hair braiding has been a manual task.

HaloBraid aims to cut braid appointments in half, ease the physical toll on stylists, and give Black women back their precious time.

A new technology startup is aiming to reshape one of the most time-intensive services in the beauty industry, raising fresh questions about…