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Cerca

Cerca is a Gen Z dating app that uses social-graph AI to match users only with friends or friends-of-friends, eliminating stranger anxiety and rejection fear.

Startup snapshot

Stage
Seed
Funding
Seed · $1.6M · 2024
Status
published
Updated
May 9, 2026
Views
77 views
Website
cerca.app

What they're building

Cerca is a Gen Z dating app that uses social-graph AI to match users only with friends or friends-of-friends, eliminating stranger anxiety and rejection fear. AI social-graph AI to match users only with friends or friends-of-friends, eliminating stranger anxiety and rejection fear.

Foundation model usage

Architecture pattern
Consumer inference, Agentic loops, Embeddings & semantic search
Defensibility
Network effects
Model demand
Low intensity

Funding

Latest funding: Seed · $1.6M · 2024. Total raised: $1.6M. Lead investor: Undisclosed seed investors.

AI Lab Fit

Good fit for personalization, conversational UX, recommendation loops, memory, multimodal understanding, and safe action-taking in consumer contexts.

Notes

Cerca is tagged featured based on buyer clarity, repeat workflow activity, public activity, and fit with the AI Atlas map.

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