# Seeker

> Seeker is a Menlo Park travel-technology company that gives destination marketers, chambers, local publishers and cultural organizations a way to discover events, plan trips and turn visits into measurable participation. Founded as a consumer community for sharing favorite places, it now sells three web-based B2B products: the AI-native Seeker Events Network, the gamified Seeker XP, and the trip-planning platform Seeker Explore.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Menlo Park, United States
- **Founders:** Jody Vandergriff (Co-founder and CEO), Steve Rabkin (Co-founder)
- **Products:** Seeker Events Network, Seeker XP, Seeker Explore
- **Notable:** Expanded SF Peninsula event discovery to more than 500 connected sources across 16 cities., Supports a Tennessee Tourism deployment that continuously crawls more than 200 sources statewide., Runs a shared Calgary Discover Feed that powers four independently curated and branded calendars.

## Products & services

- **Seeker Events Network** — An AI-native event discovery and calendar platform that crawls custom local sources, structures and de-duplicates events, routes them through an editorial review feed, and publishes them through native widgets, integrations or an API.
- **Seeker XP** — A no-code platform for digital passports, scavenger hunts, QR activities, check-ins, photo challenges, leaderboards, offers and rewards, delivered as a mobile web experience without a required app download.
- **Seeker Explore** — A visitor trip-planning product with AI itineraries, business listings, interactive guides, maps, visitor hubs and first-party visitor insights.

## Achievements

- Expanded SF Peninsula event discovery to more than 500 connected sources across 16 cities.
- Supports a Tennessee Tourism deployment that continuously crawls more than 200 sources statewide.
- Runs a shared Calgary Discover Feed that powers four independently curated and branded calendars.
- A New Orleans check-in activation engaged more than 120 participants and produced 278 user-contributed photos.
- Built mobile-first XP and Explore experiences that do not require an app download.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Introduced Smart Categories, applying AI-powered tagging to incoming event records.
- **2026-05** — Spring product release added user-generated-content controls in Seeker XP and source whitelisting plus new administration tools in Seeker Events Network.
- **2026-01** — Winter release delivered the first product updates after the formal Seeker XP launch and additional Events Network enhancements.
- **2025-12** — Formally introduced Seeker XP after two years of work with destinations, marketers, event producers and experiential teams.
- **2025-08** — Added featured events and custom region filters to Seeker Events Network.

## Links

- Website: https://seeker.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/joinseeker
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/joinseeker
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/explorebyseeker
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joinseeker/

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Last updated: 2026-09-28