Olamide Olowe

Founder and CEO Topicals

Olamide Olowe is a Forbes 30 under 30 Entrepreneur and Investor. She is the youngest Black Woman to raise $2M from investors, having raised $15M in Venture Capital funding before the age of 26.

Olamide got her start as an entrepreneur in 2015 when she co-founded the beauty brand Sheagirl, in partnership with Shea Moisture, which was later acquired by Unilever in 2017. In 2020, Olamide combined her passion for creativity and love for business to launch Topicals which is currently the fastest growing skincare company at Sephora.

She serves as the Founder and CEO of Topicals and has donated over $200K to various mental health organizations. She has received notable recognition from Harvard Business School, Google, The UCLA
Alumni Association, and Forbes.