Founder Chisom Okwor wants to build technologies that improve the lives of the Black community. Okwor, who currently works as a Google software engineer, signed up for a hair-braiding apprenticeship during a gap year after graduating high school in Nigeria. She then moved to the U.S. to obtain a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Fisk University on a full-ride scholarship. She was braiding hair on campus as a side hustle, and the money funded her living expenses and travel. It was through her experience that she began to consider technology as a solution to relieving pain points for hair braiders. “I started to
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