Yinka Ogunbiyi's HaloBraid raises $7M to bring robotics into the braid salon
Seven Seven Six led the seed round for a salon assistant that starts with the stylist instead of trying to replace her.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: TechCrunch
Why it matters
HaloBraid is a founder-market fit story with real hardware risk: Ogunbiyi is automating the repetitive part of braiding while keeping stylists central to the service.
Yinka Ogunbiyi launched HaloBraid on Tuesday, June 23rd, with a $7 million seed round led by Seven Seven Six and a clear bet: hair braiding is a labor bottleneck that hardware, not another booking app, can attack.…