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Presenting: Ramble – Redefining Campgrounds
November 20, 2024 @ 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Ramble (https://ramble.camp/) – Founder & CEO Matt Oesterle presenting, is redefining campgrounds by creating low-density, scenic sites that offer a better outdoor experience, moving away from traditional, crowded camping spaces.
Our target market is the 22% of households in the US who book one or more tent campsites per year & are looking for a better experience than existing parking-lot-style campgrounds.
Our competition is private national campground chains like KOA, Jellystone, and Sun Outdoors, and public campgrounds on federal, state and county land. Our competitive advantage is that we offer a consistently amazing nature-focused experience with sites & amenities designed for tent / car / van campers, not RV parking lots.
The total market size in 2023 was 29M US households that booked at least one tent campsite, and the total market revenue in 2024 is projected to be $23B spent on camping trips.
Top 3 challenges:
– Capitalizing the business sufficiently to grow from a few locations to tens of locations.
– Scaling construction and deployment within cost and timeline requirements.
– Decreasing marketing spend per booking as our network of locations grows.
Our Pitch Boulder ask: Feedback on how we’re thinking about the next stage of the business as we move from proof of concept to early scale; introductions to any relevant real estate / PE investors.