The investment fund of the former mayor of Kiev, Leonid Chernovetsky, has invested $ 1 million in a Russian-Ukrainian startup selling bus tickets Busfor
To launch a ticket sales site like Anywayanyday, you need to connect to global booking systems, and there is nothing like this in the field of bus transportation, says the founder of Busfor. The Busfor system allows you to search and buy tickets for international and intercity bus trips in Russia, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Thailand.
More than three hundred carriers are connected to the system, the company has more than five hundred partners — the ticket agency, including the Mostransagentstvo, the oldest agency in Russia, which has been operating on the market since 1957. The aggregator sells tens of thousands of tickets monthly, of which 60% are online. More than half of the tickets come from trips to Eastern European countries. Busfor earns commissions that range from ten to twenty-five percent, depending on sales.
Investment Fund Chernovetskyi Investment Group (CIG) has invested one million dollars in the project. In June 2014, Busfor has already attracted investments of three million dollars from Intel Capital, InVenture Partners and Finsight Ventures. By the end of 2015, Busfor plans to attract additional funds for further development in the priority markets for service, primarily in the countries of Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.
Busfor founder Ilya Ekushevsky told RBC that business development is aggravated by the exacerbation of the political and worsening economic situation in Russia and Ukraine. People are forced to seek work in larger cities or other countries, and are looking for cheaper ways to travel than air and rail travel.
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Competition Busfor can make ridesharingovy services like French BlaBlaCar , working in Russia. BlaBlaCar representative Sergei Avakian-Rzhevsky noted that a trip with a fellow traveler using the service will be on average thirty to forty percent cheaper than the cost of a bus ticket.
More than three hundred carriers are connected to the system, the company has more than five hundred partners — the ticket agency, including the Mostransagentstvo, the oldest agency in Russia, which has been operating on the market since 1957. The aggregator sells tens of thousands of tickets monthly, of which 60% are online. More than half of the tickets come from trips to Eastern European countries. Busfor earns commissions that range from ten to twenty-five percent, depending on sales.
Investment Fund Chernovetskyi Investment Group (CIG) has invested one million dollars in the project. In June 2014, Busfor has already attracted investments of three million dollars from Intel Capital, InVenture Partners and Finsight Ventures. By the end of 2015, Busfor plans to attract additional funds for further development in the priority markets for service, primarily in the countries of Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia.
Busfor founder Ilya Ekushevsky told RBC that business development is aggravated by the exacerbation of the political and worsening economic situation in Russia and Ukraine. People are forced to seek work in larger cities or other countries, and are looking for cheaper ways to travel than air and rail travel.
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Competition Busfor can make ridesharingovy services like French BlaBlaCar , working in Russia. BlaBlaCar representative Sergei Avakian-Rzhevsky noted that a trip with a fellow traveler using the service will be on average thirty to forty percent cheaper than the cost of a bus ticket.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/294340/
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