June 24, 2026
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,
May 15, 2026
U.K.-based biotech beauty startup Ruka has closed a $4.5 million funding round to scale its synthetic hair fiber technology. Freedom Trail Capital and Henkel Ventures led
October 28, 2025
Harvard alumni Yinka Ogunbiyi and David Afolabi have won the top prize at Harvard’s 2025 President’s Innovation Challenge for HaloBraid, their groundbreaking robotic hair-braiding device —