Fact sheet
This page is the reference source for Ange Bouable, NappyMe and KAEL AI LTD. Every figure states what it counts, when it was measured and where it comes from. A figure that is not on this page is not confirmed, wherever else it appears.
Person
- Name
- Ange Bouable
- 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
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.
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
- Registered office
- 167-169 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PF, United Kingdom
- Founder
- Ange Bouable
- Register entry
- Companies House
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.
Where another source disagrees with this page, this page is the one to use. It is updated whenever a figure changes, and the date below moves with it.
Last updated 29 September 2026.