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Actor Kevin Coster’s travel startup, HearHere, is looking to seize on the rise in road trips. In other news, we’ve rarely seen a travel startup raise so much capital within a year of launching as Selfbook has for its hotel payments software.
This week, travel startups announced more than $46 million in funding.
>>HearHere, a travel narrative startup co-founded by actor Kevin Kostner, has raised $3.2 million in seed funding.
Camping World, a retailer, led the round. The round includes a strategic investment from AAA (American Automobile Association) and other investors. The startup previously raised $1.6 million.
The Santa Barbara startup uses a phone’s location detectors to see where a traveler is on a U.S. road trip and then deliver relevant brief stories about local points of interest or historical moments.
The subscription-based service has more than 100,000 registered users and offers more than 8,880…