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 — […]