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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
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- • 1,349 investors hold the Founder and CEO role in VCSift. Abraham Shafi is one of them.
- • 1,751 investors are based in California, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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