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RealRoots

IRL friendship app for women

Real friendships, made in real life. Answer a few questions, and we'll match you into IRL hangs with women you'll actually click with. Made for women, by women.
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 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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RealRoots 👯‍♀️ the IRL friendship app for women
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TL;DR - Answer a few questions, and we’ll match you with new friends IRL for in-person experiences. Friendship guaranteed.

THE PROBLEM:

Making friends as an adult is hard. Women lose half of their friends every 7 years, and yet there is no easy way to rebuild those circles. This fundamental problem has led to ⅔ of Americans regularly feeling lonely to no fault of their own.

THE SOLUTION:

We know that friendships form when three ingredients align: 1) compatibility, 2) repeat encounters, and 3) authentic conversations. That’s why we designed RealRoots to reliably deliver all three, allowing us to guarantee friendships.

  • Friendship compatibility: We ask women a questions about her life stage and values, matching with with compatible new friends in her area
  • Repeat Encounters: When a woman joins RealRoots, she commits to meeting her friend matches for multiple shared experiences, allowing enough repetition for connection to develop.
  • Authentic Conversations: RealRoots experiences are led by a trained facilitator, who guides deep conversations and icebreakers so that a woman gets to know her matches intentionally.
  • A woman joins for a quarter, a year, or longer.

 

WHY WE’RE BUILDING THIS:

We’re building the product we desperately wished existed. After moving 10 times between us, we’ve repeatedly felt the struggle of rebuilding a community from scratch, and the isolation that follows. We created RealRoots because we want to solve this problem, for ourselves and for every woman seeking genuine connection.

OUR ASK:

Meet friend matches (women only): Have any female loved ones who are looking for female community? Spread the word about RealRoots. And if you’re a woman, we’d love to help you meet your new local friend group.

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RealRoots
Founded:2024
Batch:Summer 2025
Team Size:7
Status:
Active
Primary Partner:Brad Flora