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RealRoots

RealRoots

Summer 2025

AI social app for women

MarketplaceConsumerSocial NetworkAI

About Company

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.

Active Founders

Dorothy Li

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

Tara Kappel

Founder

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.

Company Facts

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
Team Size7
Founded2025
StatusActive