Travel is fun and glamorous and all, but we all know what packing your backpack and heading for the amazon is really about: Making your friends and family a deep shade of jealous green. Amsterdam-based Polarsteps just raised a seed round to help making that easier. The company raised a modest €500,000 ($563k) in seed funding from Silver Point Ventures and TMG last week.
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