A mobile app that aims to improve and digitize the
outdoor travel experience called seeker announcing this week that it
raised a$2.25 million 50,000 campsites throughout the us,
including the nation's biggest database of free campsites? Well
, the company is saying it is on a mission
to make every step of the planning experience for outdoor
travel easier, safer and more social. And so
joining me now is the co founder and Ceo of
seeker Brianna Ceo and her fellow co founder and seekers
see, oh, oh jess Shissler ladies, thanks
so much for coming on the show, Brianna will
start with you, talk to me more about this
company and how you're aiming to improve this experience.
Yeah, so the industry, the outdoor travel industry
in general is the only vertical within the travel industry
that isn't yet digitized. So if you want to
go on a trip you would go to Expedia or
one of those, those websites. But for camping
it is all over the place. People are still
using pen and paper. Uh and the, the
planning experience is awful. So what we're doing at
seekers, we're aggregating all of the inventory into one
place. Uh, so that a someone who wants
to go camping can just pull it up, put
in their filters and then find what they're looking for
. I like it. I just, I want
to bring you in as well. So what else
is in it for the consumer? Is there a
subscription cost that they pay for this or if they
book does a portion perhaps of the fee, go
to your company. Absolutely. Kristen thanks for having
us. So the app is completely free for our
members to use so they can access our database of
campsites. They can connect with other members find events
all of this for free. And they are also
able to access our camp share network of campsites that
are on private land. And so there is a
transaction fee that we take with this. Um,
and that is all securely processed through stripe. How
has the pandemic Brianne accelerated the interest in your company
, both from the consumer side of things and from
the investor side with this new fundraising round. Well
the pandemic really exacerbated America's interest and, and really
the world's interest in outdoor activities. Uh, we've
seen the camping industry increase uh, like hit record
highs for seeker. We have over 500% increase year
on year of, of accounts of member accounts.
And then we've increased 1500 of daily users. So
we're definitely seeing an impact on, on the,
the larger travel or interest in the outdoors and speaker
ladies. We've got to leave it there. I
hope you'll come back on the show, Congratulations again
. I think we're all seeking something fun in a
vacation, certainly around this time of year as well
. That's Brianna Ceo a secret Ceo and co founder
and jess Shissler the co founder and Ceo