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RealRoots is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: IRL friendship app for women. The founders listed are Dorothy Li (Founder/CEO), Tara Kappel (Founder/CPO) (Y Combinator directory entry, June 24, 2025).
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Dorothy Li
Founder/CEO
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/CPO
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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