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RealRoots

AI social app for women

Y CombinatorSummer 2025ActiveConsumerSocialMarketplaceConsumerSocial NetworkAI

What they do

Problem

Women have difficulty finding compatible new friends and coordinating social plans to build real friendships.

Solution

A mobile social app that uses an AI matchmaker to chat with users, match them with compatible friends, and plan and coordinate social experiences.

Who it's for

Women looking to meet compatible new friends and participate in organized social experiences.

Founders

Dorothy Li
CEO 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 Kappel
Founder

Co-founder & CPO of RealRoots, the IRL friendship 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.

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