ApeatApeat Seek

About Apeat AI

Our mission

Apeat exists to solve the Gen Z loneliness epidemic on U.S. college campuses by making it effortless for verified strangers to share a dinner.

We believe friendship-formation in college has become harder, not because people don't want to connect, but because coordination is broken. Apeat removes that friction.

What we do

Apeat Seek is an AI-coordinated social dining platform built for verified .edu students. Tell us when, what, and how much. Our AI matches you with 2–5 like-minded students. Our operations team books the table. You just show up.

Why now

  • 64% of college students report regular feelings of loneliness (national surveys, 2024–2025)
  • 92% of dinner planning attempts in group chats die before a booking is made
  • AI is finally good enough to make zero-coordination matching reliable

Recognition

  • Web Summit Vancouver 2026 — Alpha Startup
  • Google Cloud — backed startup
  • Delaware-registered — Apeat AI LLC (Nov 2025)

Our team

Linxiao "Caesar" Zhou — Co-Founder, Commercial. Previously consulting at EY. MSc Business Analytics, Warwick Business School.

Haidong Zheng — Co-Founder, CTO. Previously engineering at TikTok (recommendations). MS Computer Science, University of Washington.

Songyang Peng — Co-Founder.

Ruoyu Fang — Co-Founder.

Our journey

  • November 2025 — Apeat AI LLC registered in Delaware
  • December 2025 — Apeat Seek iOS app launched
  • May 2026 — Selected as Web Summit Vancouver Alpha Startup
  • Fall 2026 — UCLA campus launch
  • 2027 — Expansion across UC system and West Coast

Contact

Apeat AI LLC · 254 Chapman Rd, Ste 208 #25505, Newark, DE 19702