Title: We&#x27;re Lisa and Alexa, co-founders of Revel (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hellorevel.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hellorevel.com</a>). We help women over 50 build their community by hosting and attending small, local gatherings.<p>We&#x27;re two women in our 30s who decided to work on this problem after seeing how important and how challenging it has been for our mothers.<p>Lisa&#x27;s mother raised her as a single parent while working as a public school teacher, and that meant that she didn&#x27;t have much time to focus on her life outside of parenting. When Lisa left for college, her mother retired, and found herself longing for a community of like-minded women, which wasn’t easy. Alexa&#x27;s mother is similar in need but different in circumstance: she&#x27;s a physician with a high-powered career and a robust social life, living in a dense urban area, who nonetheless feels that she doesn&#x27;t know where to turn for genuine connections with women her age.<p>In the United States alone, there are 50 million women like our mothers. They are a dramatically underserved demographic. We sometimes hear talk of &quot;elder tech&quot; and &quot;silver tech&quot; but our customer is not &quot;the elderly&quot;—she&#x27;s in her 50s, 60s, or 70s, statistically healthier than ever before, with some disposable income to spend, and she wants to enjoy life alongside women her own age.<p>How Revel works is that any woman over 50 can sign up to join as a member for $15 a month. As a member, she can then browse our listings of Revel events being hosted by other members in her neighborhood. All of our events are user-generated and any member can apply to host at any time.<p>We&#x27;re operating only in the Bay Area for now, but obviously our plan is to expand geographically as soon as it makes sense. Since we launched in late July, we&#x27;ve had hundreds of women sign up as members, and have had dozens of member-hosted gatherings in living rooms and backyard gardens across the Bay Area. If your mother, aunt, or family friend lives nearby, we&#x27;d love to meet her!<p>We&#x27;d love to hear your ideas and feedback and questions, and your own experiences in this area!
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