40. Rahel Tesfai – FroHub

Company: FroHub

Website: https://frohub.com/

Business: FroHub is an Afro hair & beauty community and SaaS-enabled marketplace booking platform.

About Rahel Tesfai and FroHub

A front-end developer later-turned-marketer, Rahel Tesfai founded FroHub in June 2018. Frohub provides an online booking marketplace for black hair and beauty, and aims to reshape the £30bn+ industry which is fragmented, under-served and driven purely by word-of-mouth connects.

In a market that is currently highly inefficient, FroHub eliminates time waste for black women by providing a platform to easily search, discover and book appointments. FroHub’s platform also provides the community a way to exchange tips and advice on Afro hair health through blogs, forums and tutorials.

FroHub has the 5th UN Sustainable Development Goal at it’s very core; striving to empower women through technology, by allowing a traditionally-offline industry to move online.

Prior to FroHub, Rahel headed up digital and strategic marketing for a number of global start-ups including PayPoint and UKash.

In 2020, Rahel was Listed as one of the Most Influential UK Women in Tech by Computer Weekly, named a Top 50 BAME Entrepreneur by TechRound and listed within the Top 100 Women in Tech by WeAreTechWomen.

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