Tripscout aggregates recommendations from thousands of local experts and uses personalized AI to power visual discovery and trip planning. The app maps recommendations to a catalog of more than 100 million points of interest and lets users save places and stitch them into personalized itineraries with one tap. Tripscout converts a social media audience (over 6 million followers) into travel inspiration, claiming it pioneered "SEO for Instagram" and drove over 1 million visits to travel publishers recently. The company reports rapid user and engagement growth—social views climbed from 2 million to over 200 million per month in 2020, it surpassed 1 million app users, and has seen nearly 1,000% year-over-year active user growth. Tripscout also highlights industry-leading engagement metrics, with monthly retention rates over 400% higher than industry averages. With new content and marketing leadership joining the team, the company is positioned to scale its content-driven acquisition and marketplace efforts. TripScout is a Chicago-based travel entertainment platform and iPhone app that enables visual discovery of destinations through curated articles and videos. Every restaurant, café, shop, and site featured in the content is mapped to TripScout’s 100 million+ constantly updated points of interest. The company introduced a new "Today" tab that provides personalized desired places for upcoming trips, a trip countdown, new trip recommendations, weather summaries, and a destination of the day. TripScout is led by CEO and co-founder Konrad Waliszewski and CPO and co-founder Andy Acs. It is a recent graduate of the Network Catalyst accelerator by Village Global and is backed by Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg. The company raised $2.1M in seed funding.

Total raised

$4M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Mar 2021