Investors · seed round · open

A long bet on a quieter travel app.

We think the next decade of consumer travel is not louder feeds and bigger maps — it's something smaller and more honest. We're raising a seed round to build it. Here is what we'd send you anyway.
01 · Traction

Small but real.

We've been building since November 2025. Real numbers are coming — we'll share them once the beta is bigger and the signal is clean. Until then: a few honest notes.
Soon.
Places saved per week. We'll share the trailing four-week average in the next update.
Places saved
Soon.
TestFlight size and weekly-active percentage — not yet at a number we'd defend.
Beta size
Soon.
Cohort retention. We're tracking it; we don't want to publish it half-baked.
W2 retention
€0
Paid acquisition spent. All beta growth is word of mouth — that part we are happy to commit to.
CAC

We're not optimising for these numbers. Engagement targets are a poor proxy for whether the product is changing how people actually travel — that's what we'd rather show you, in conversation.

02 · Thesis

Three bets.

We've held these for two years. The first one is the bet that everything else hinges on.
Bet 01
People are tired of discovery feeds. The next decade of consumer apps belongs to the ones that show you less, on purpose. Plinn is not a travel feed. It is a list, kept by hand, by the user — and the list is the product.
Bet 02
AI as ghost-writer, not host. The model lives behind a single line — Ask Plinn — and writes itineraries from places the user already chose. It never recommends strangers' places. It never browses the web on the user's behalf. The trust unlock is that the AI's source is always your own list.
Bet 03
Quiet is a moat. The hardest thing for a feed-shaped competitor to copy is the absence of a feed. Every quarter our competitors add a recommendation rail, we add a row to the privacy page. Both are growth strategies; ours compounds.
03 · The round

Seed, open.

Raising on a SAFE. Eighteen months of runway to ship v1.0, grow the beta, and validate the consumer paid tier.
Round status · quiet for now
We'll name the lead on close.

We're talking to two-to-three additional partners who love consumer products and have patience for a slow-built brand. Numbers (round size, committed amount, target close) are happiest shared in conversation — ask and we'll send the deck.

Request the deck → invest@plinn.app
Reply within 24h · NDA optional
04 · Founder

The founder.

Plinn is founder-led, built between Munich and Cape Town, with a small group of contributors helping ship the beta.
Dr. Nadine Auer
Founder
Founder of Plinn. She started the company to build the quiet, hand-kept travel app she wanted to use herself — no feed, no sponsored pins, no stars. Works between Munich and Cape Town.
05 · What we'd ask

Beyond the cheque.

We'd like you to be the third person who reads our weekly note, the second person we call when we're stuck, and the first person who flies to Cape Town when we open the cafe.