Nigerian-American engineer & Harvard grad Yinka Ogunbiyi | US Mission in Nigeria/X
A Nigerian-American engineer and Harvard graduate, Yinka Ogunbiyi, has explained why she built HaloBraid.
She described it as a response to the six hours of pain, 300 cost, and long-term physical damage that hairstylists absorb for a process 20 million Americans rely on every eight weeks.
Ogunbiyi is the developer of HaloBraid, the world’s first patent-pending braid-assist robot.
She has raised $7m in seed funding for the device, drawing more than 7,000 salons to its waiting list, the US Mission in Nigeria disclosed in a post on X on Friday.
