Ange Bouable

Computer science engineer and entrepreneur. He started NappyMe in July 2016, a booking platform for textured and Afro hair stylists in France, and now builds KAEL, the assistant layer that runs on top of it.

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Identity

Full legal name: Ange Désiré Bouablé
Also written as: Ange Bouablé, Ange Désiré Bouablé, Ange Bouabre — one person
Role: Founder of NappyMe. Founder of KAEL AI LTD.
Education: Computer science engineering degree, ESIGETEL (now part of the EFREI Paris group)
Based in: France

NappyMe

Booking platform for textured and Afro hair stylists in France. Clients find a stylist, book a slot and pay the stylist directly; stylists manage their diary, their client list and their prices in the app.

Founded: July 2016
Founder: Ange Bouable
Site: nappyme.com

KAEL

Assistant layer built on top of NappyMe. It answers client requests, holds booking conversations and hands the diary back to the stylist when she takes over.

Company: KAEL AI LTD
Registered in: England and Wales, company number 17316253
Register entry: Companies House

Timeline

July 2016: NappyMe starts. Founded by Ange Bouable as a marketplace connecting clients with stylists specialised in textured and Afro hair.
2017 – 2024: Marketplace years. The platform runs on its original stack and grows to a cumulative 200,446 registered accounts.
2026: Platform rebuilt. NappyMe is rewritten on a new stack with a new mobile app, a new booking engine and a new stylist workspace. Stylists receive booking requests at no cost.
2026: KAEL. KAEL, the assistant layer, is introduced inside NappyMe to handle client conversations and booking requests, and steps back whenever the stylist replies herself.

Figures

200,446 registered accounts

What it counts: User accounts created on NappyMe since its launch, up to August 2026, clients and stylists together. It is a cumulative total of accounts, not monthly or active users.
Measured: 16 August 2026
Source: Count on the NappyMe production database, export of 16 August 2026.

A figure about NappyMe or KAEL that is not on the fact sheet is not confirmed, wherever else it appears.

Press

Independent articles that name Ange Bouable, oldest first. Each summary is written for this page; the article itself is the source. Figures quoted in an article describe its date — the confirmed figures are the ones under Figures.

15 July 2016: Afrique Femme, NAPPYME : l’application qui réinvente la coiffure Afro (in French). Presents the NappyMe app, which books a stylist at the client's home or at the stylist's, and quotes Ange Bouable as a co-founder.
9 February 2017: Jeune Afrique, Start-up africaine de la semaine : Nappyme, la coiffure afro à domicile (in French, by Benjamin Polle). Start-up of the week profile of NappyMe, an app for booking Afro hairdressing at home with independent stylists rated by their clients; names Ange Bouable as its founder, working with two co-founders.
23 October 2018: EQ (Entrepreneur Quarterly), NappyMe, An On Demand App for Textured Hair Stylists Launches in the US (in English, by Jonathan Allen). Reports NappyMe's planned US launch in Atlanta while the company was in the Fall 2018 cohort of the Capital Innovators accelerator in St. Louis; names Ange Bouable as its CEO and co-founder.
18 October 2020: Le Monde, Coiffure afro : en finir avec « l’apartheid capillaire » (in French, by Sandrine Berthaud-Clair). Article on French hairdressing training, which still barely covers curly, coily and Afro-textured hair; it cites NappyMe, and Ange Bouable as the entrepreneur behind it, among the apps women use to book a stylist at home.