The
Black Women
in Tech Advocate

Oyin Adebayo

Is a Serial Tech entrepreneur and Angel Investor. She has built her businesses from bootstrap to 7 figures.

She runs Niyo, a multi-award winning company that specialises in using technology to economically empower black women. This organisation currently has two brands: Niyo Hair and Beauty and Niyo Bootcamps. Niyo Hair and Beauty is a brand looking to reimagine the end-to-end beauty experience for black and brown women starting with their AR and AI mobile platform. Customers get to try on hairstyles before they book appointments in the exciting and exclusive premium salon. The beauty tech company has served over 1000 clients across the UK whilst economically empowering hairstylists through an academy to get accredited. Niyo Bootcamps is a learn-to-earn ed-tech platform focused on enabling 1 million black women globally to be upskilled. She has worked with clients like Goldman Sachs, KPMG, THe Department for Education and much more.

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She is an Ada Angel Investor, her thesis is focused on investing in black female founders who are building products for economic empowerment and healthcare and ageing. You can read her thesis here.

Her work has been recognised in BBC News, Business Day NG, The Express, The Voice, Metro, Black Beauty and Hair Magazine, Nottingham Post and many more. She has also won many awards including Great British Fashion & Beauty Entrepreneur of the year, MBCC Entrepreneur of the year and Female Innovator of the year. She has spoken at Women In Tech Festival, Vodafone UK, KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Africa Tech Week, Birmingham Tech week and many more.