Myavana landed $5.9 million in a seed funding round spearheaded by strategic investors who understand the AI and the company's impact using hair data to inform markets.WHO: Candace Harris founded Myavana in 2012 as a B2C and B2B solution, leveraging 17 years of experience in computer science to develop AI haircare technology that analyzes the variables of hair strands and hair products to produce personalized haircare plans that support healthy hair and hair growth. She is a pioneer within a space that is overwhelmingly homogenous and noninclusive, carving out solutions for BIPOC women, a group often ignored.Backed by over a decade of research, development, and data, Myavana is disrupting the multibillion-dollar textured haircare market as a pioneer of HairAI (Artificial Intelligence Hair Strand Analysis) technology and HairSI (Scientific Hair Strand Analysis). Myavana Labs has analyzed over two billion hair strands, making it the world's largest database of textured haircare data. Myavana couples its personalized, scientific hair analysis with the company's prescriptive, data-driven hair product recommendation suite of over 3,000 commercially available hair products on the market.WHY: This round of funding will accelerate Myavana's unique market position, pioneering personalized haircare under the visionary leadership of its founder, Candace Mitchell.IN THEIR OWN WORDS: "A person's hair is as unique to them as a fingerprint, and we've unlocked powerful, personalized insights with our AI platform," said Myavana CEO and founder Candace Mitchell.