RealRoots
Summer 2025 · Active
AI social app for women
Location: San Francisco, US
Founded: 2024
Team size: 4
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
Dorothy LiCEO and Co-founder
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 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.