Black-owned Fiber and Material Science Firm Aja Labs Raises $2.5MM Ahead of Launching Patent-Pending Hair Extensions Made From Plants
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 30, 2022
RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aja Labs has raised $2.5MM in a seed round of funding led by Impact America Fund, Better Ventures, and SOSV's IndieBio, with participating changemakers across public health, business, beauty, and cosmetics, including Diishan Imira, CEO of Mayvenn, a beauty-tech company and platform for hairstylists that closed a $40MM Series C in Summer 2022. The money will fuel Aja Lab's move from development to commercialization of their first product, biomaterial hair fibers made from plant material sold under the consumer brand Nourie.
Black-owned Fiber Science Firm . . .