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ABOUT ME
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Oyinkansola (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 women. This organisation currently has two brands: Niyo Hair and Beauty and Niyo Labs.  Niyo Hair and Beauty is a brand looking to reimagine the end-to-end beauty experience for black and brown women starting with their  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 Labs is a learn-to-earn ed-tech platform focused on enabling 1 million people globally to be upskilled. She has worked with clients like Goldman Sachs,  KPMG, THe Department for Education and much more.

Learn more

She is an Angel Investor and scout, 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.

See some of Oyin Adebayo’s speaking engagements.

Press mentions

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3 WOMEN WHO BROKE THE GLASS CEILING IN BUSINESS – AND THEIR ADVICE TO YOU
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THE CODING CAMP FOR BLACK WOMEN
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THE BLACK WOMEN IN TECH CODING THE FUTURE
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'I MADE IT!': WOMAN TURNS £200 A WEEK SIDE HUSTLE INTO £1.4MILLION TECH EMPIRE
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SEVEN BIRMINGHAM BUSINESSWOMEN CELEBRATE THEIR SUCCESSES ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
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OYIN ADEBAYO; EMPOWERING BLACK WOMEN AND TRANSFORMING THE FASHION INDUSTRY WITH NFTS
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OYIN ADEBAYO, CEO/FOUNDER OF NIYO ENTERPRISE
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Awards Listings

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Finalist in some of these organisations and brands

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Where Oyin Adebayo has spoken

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