doveImani Okafor
Co-founder and CEO
Spent six years building community products and got tired of watching people perform for strangers. Started Dove to make meeting someone feel like meeting someone.
Dove team
Small team. Big belief in people.
We are designers, engineers, community builders, and safety specialists creating a more human way to meet.
Built with care
Every Dove decision starts with one question: does this help people connect without asking them to perform?
We are a small, remote first team spread across a handful of cities. Product design, engineering, and trust and safety work from the same brief, which is why safety features arrive with the feature rather than after it.
The people behind Dove.
Tomas Vidal
Co-founder and CTO
Builds the discovery and messaging systems behind Dove, with a rule he repeats often: if a feature needs a leaderboard to work, it does not work.
Priya Raman
Head of Trust and Safety
Came from platform moderation operations. Runs Dove's review queues, age integrity checks, and the escalation paths behind every report.
Noah Feld
Head of Product Design
Designs the parts people actually touch: prompts, icebreakers, profiles. Obsessed with making the first message the easiest part of the app.
Sana Kaur
Community Lead
Runs the ambassador programme and reads the feedback nobody else wants to read. Most Dove changes start in her inbox.
Daniel Brooks
Privacy and Legal Counsel
Handles data protection, policy, and the unglamorous work of making sure what we promise about your information is what actually happens.
How we work.
Safety is a product decision
Trust and safety sits in the room when features are designed, not after they ship.
People over metrics
We do not ship anything that rewards popularity over connection.
Say what we do
If our policy says it, the product does it. No quiet exceptions.
Small and deliberate
A small team that ships carefully beats a big one that ships loudly.
Want to build this with us?
We hire slowly and look for people who care about the human side of software. Tell us what you would want to fix about meeting people online.
hello@dove-app.com