Without pretending to replace it.
Everyone's building tools.
Karooli is a product lab for what tools won't fix. Loneliness. The friction of meeting people. The slow absence of being known. Three products in build. Vesspr is the first to ship.
At pre-seed, the bet is on people. Here's who we are.
At Karooli, design and product feel aren’t a feature. They’re the company.
Year-one architecture decisions are what separate products that scale from ones that plateau.
Day-one acquisition lives in design. Day-two return lives in story.
A team can ship a product in a weekend. The question has shifted from “can we build this?” to “should this exist?” When everyone can build, what's left to compete on is taste, technical depth, and the story you tell.
We didn't start with a market gap. We started with a kind of pain the people around us kept describing, in different words, at different ages, in different stages of life. Karooli is the company we built to work on it, one product at a time. Each one has to pass the same filter before we ship.
“Does this solve something real for someone who is actually struggling?”
When building is cheap, how something feels is what differentiates.
Architecture competitors can't copy on a weekend is what compounds.
Consumer products win on how people feel about them, not just what they do.
This isn't a product hunch. It's one of the most documented public health crises of the decade. The US Surgeon General declared it an epidemic in 2023.
US adults report feeling lonely.
US Surgeon General · 2023of Europeans aged 18–35 feel moderately or severely lonely.
Bertelsmann Stiftung · 2024deaths a year linked to isolation worldwide. More than smoking.
WHO Commission on Social Connection · 2025The problem isn't that people have no one. It's that no one goes first. Technology made it easy to reply. Initiating is the part that broke. Vesspr is built for that.
An AI companion that lives where you already are: WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, and voice today. Web and mobile apps in development. No new behavior to learn.
Unlike every other product in the category, Vesspr initiates. It checks in first, remembers what you mentioned three weeks ago, and follows up before you do.
Every competitor waits for the user to open the app. Vesspr is the only one that initiates, and that single design choice is the wedge everything else builds on.
Replika, Character.AI, and Nomi all wait for the user to open the app. Vesspr texts first. The data we’re collecting on what makes someone reply to an AI’s check-in at 9pm on a Sunday, six weeks into the relationship, doesn’t exist anywhere else.
Every competitor needs you to install their app, the commitment most users never make. Vesspr already runs in WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, and voice, with first-party web and mobile apps in development. Competitors spent years getting one channel right; we built across four from day one.
Vesspr’s memory tracks recurring anxieties, unfinished conversations, and the small things someone mentioned and never came back to. Users can read, edit, or erase what Vesspr remembers about them, line by line.
Italy fined Replika €5.6M. Character.AI is in active litigation over a teen suicide case. Vesspr is non-romantic by design, which keeps us shippable in markets the competition is being pulled out of.
Vesspr is in a closed private beta of [N] users. These aren't market-scale numbers. They're a small cohort, picked deliberately, run for [N] weeks. The point is whether the core thesis holds: do people come back, and do they reply when Vesspr reaches out first.
Active beta users.
Users still active 30 days after their first conversation.
Reply rate to Vesspr's proactive check-ins.
Median messages per user per week.
“[Drop in the most specific, unprompted quote from a beta user here. Ideally one that names the proactive behavior. Keep to 1 to 2 sentences.]”
[Name] · [City]We ranked every major competitor on the five things that matter in this category. No one product holds all five. Vesspr is the first designed to.
Vesspr lives across WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, and voice, channels with billions of users between them. Zero credible product is built directly at the loneliness problem itself; most are general-purpose assistants borrowed from another category.
Market sizing · Grand View Research, 2024 · verify before sendVesspr is in private beta now. Test it at vesspr.com using code VESPRBETA.
Try Vesspr · code VESPRBETAKarooli is built to ship more than one product. Vesspr is the first to ship. Peekin and Journal Dating are in active build, each on its own arc. Beyond these three, the lab keeps shipping consumer products on the same filter.
Combined addressable market across the lab's three products runs into the hundreds of billions. But the point is the lab, not any one product. Three different problems, one team, one bar.
$3M funds Karooli through 18 months. Vesspr to public launch. Peekin and Journal Dating into public beta. The team, brand, and infrastructure that compound across every product the lab ships after.
Allocation is indicative. Adjust based on round size and lead terms.
We're not building for an exit. We're building Karooli, the lab where every product compounds on the last one. Three shipping by 2027. More after.
with love from,
Vaibhav, Kendrick & Sachin
