RealRoots YC Application

Summer 2025Active

RealRoots went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 batch as a Consumer company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2025
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Dorothy LiCEO and Co-founder
Tara KappelFounder

What RealRoots does

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.

RealRoots's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

RealRoots, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

RealRoots

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI social app for women

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built a mobile app where women chat with Lisa, our AI matchmaker, to find and meet new friends. Lisa handles the matching and plans social experiences, making it easier for women to build real friendships.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and after YC we will keep the company based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has access to talent, early users, and investors interested in consumer tech. It's where we are established and can grow RealRoots effectively.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real RealRoots YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from RealRoots's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like RealRoots would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.