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RealRoots

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AI social app for women

Summer 2025Founded 20247 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

About

This is where real friendships begin. Women use our mobile app to talk to Lisa, our AI matchmaker, and get set up for fun social experiences with compatible new friends, all planned and coordinated by AI.

Founders ยท 2

Dorothy Li
Dorothy LiCEO and Co-founder
Stanford

Co-founder and CEO of RealRoots. I'm a Stanford business grad and was a founding team member of Cambly, a consumer marketplace backed by Benchmark. I started working on RealRoots because this was the product I desperately needed so many times in my own life.

Tara Kappel
Tara KappelFounder

Co-founder & CPO of RealRoots, the AI social app for women. I lead engineering and product to build and scale our platform to hundreds of thousands of women across the US. Previously led product and data teams as an early employee at Brilliant, a Series C consumer edtech company.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator ยท Aug 2025
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The first mobile app to guarantee women new friendships

RealRoots offers a mobile app that helps women form new in-person friendships by pairing them with compatible matches for multiple experiences, guided by an AI coach and a trained facilitator to foster authentic conversations. The service runs for 6 weeks to a year or longer, with an emphasis on repeat encounters and structured social events.

Formerly โ€œRealRoots Inc.โ€

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