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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.