Sekr startup company based in San Diego, CA. This travel app with the most significant national database of free and dispersed campsites demonstrates growth in the booming industry.
Sekr was funded $2.25 million led by Storyteller Overland, Backstage Capital, Techstars, Ad Astra Ventures, Crescent Ridge Ventures, and angel investor Andy Ballester, co-founder of GoFundMe. The new funding will empower people to pursue a connection with the outdoors and its communities. Also, to grow Sēkr’s reservable inventory and its community initiatives, including its alliance called Project Respect Outdoors, aims to unite women and minorities to take scalable action to evolve the outdoor industry into a more inclusive space.
In 2017, Sekr’s co-founders, Breanne Acio (CEO) and Jess Shisler (COO), we’re peeking for a better way to explore our new camping locations. First, the two traveled along with their partners in their camper vans, embracing the so-called van life lifestyle. But they shortly learned it was hard to find safe places to camp and people to connect with while on the road. Plus, they both wanted a more straightforward method to discover campgrounds with the same services they required — whether that was shower facilities, bathrooms, overnight parking for vans, access to water, or free Wi-Fi.
Acio said trip planning is the number one problem for anyone going outdoors. If you would like to book a hotel or travel someplace, you’d have to call hotels individually. There’s no online website or availability. Some of these challenges weren’t just annoyances; they complicated the reality of living and working while on the road.
In the Sēkr app, you can explore campsites across the U.S., filter them by conveniences and services, save favorites, and network with others via social features. Its listings are created by public data warehouses from the government and other databases, enhanced with crowdsourced information. Sēkr’s team of ambassadors will explore areas, verify details, and take photographs to share with the community, as do the app’s members.
Now, the company is working on adding more additional reservable inventory straight to Sēkr by digitizing and aggregating campgrounds and campsites, going from private lands to campgrounds. This work is even in the early stages, though.
Jeffrey Hunter said the CEO at Storyteller Overland and lead investor of Sekr’s funding round. The camping drive is one of the only hospitality verticals yet to embrace technology successfully. As a result, Sekr grabbed the opportunity to digitize campsite inventory at scale, changing the outdoor planning procedure from a frustrating circle of hours of failed Google searches into something consumers can do by themselves. As a result, they believe the Sekr team is uniquely positioned to have the most significant effect and impact on the outdoor travel planning experience for the nearly three-fourths of Americans who experience outdoor travel yearly.
By: K. Tagura
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