Number of Founded Organizations 2
CB Rank (Investor) 16,479
  • Primary Job Title Founder and CEO
  • Primary Organization 
    IRL

Abe attended UC Berkeley and studied Science, Society, and Technology before starting his first company, getTalent, a highly acclaimed social recruiting platform, prompting him to leave school. The platform was born of out a personal experience while job hunting and realizing there was improvements to be made with the resume-sorting process. The

platform leveraged data science to take away the biases from the hiring process, thus helping organizations hire the best talent.  getTalent had global clients including Walmart, JetBlue and Viacom, and was later sold to Dice in 2013.

In 2018, Abe founded IRL because he was personally driven to build an app that would bring people together. He found his addiction to social media was related to his own depression and left him close to quitting social media all together. This propelled him to make a social product that could help people feel connected in a way that felt healthier and less addictive. Since inception, the app has brought friends together millions of times. IRL has eleven employees and is based in San Francisco, California.

In Abe’s spare time, he likes playing piano and composing music. Currently, he is most interested in merging electronic music with classical leveraging deep folkloric music from around the world, blending with archeologic tunes of humankind’s musical history.

Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 3
Abraham Shafi is the Founder and CEO at IRL. Additionally, Abraham Shafi has had 3 past jobs including Team Member at Google.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Google
Team Member
Veechi Corp
Team Member
getTalent
CEO and Founder