BuuPass

Kenya - Westlands, Nairobi

• 15/02/2023
• Pre-Seed
• $1,300,000

BuuPass is a digital marketplace for urban travellers to book their travel tickets.

Our mission is to provide simple transport solutions that allows people to get from Point A to Point B. We envision a world where people can be travel on their terms, be connected to opportunities, and live a life without borders.
We challenge ourselves to make simpler, smarter, and more sustainable solutions that positively impact daily lives.

BuuPass is currently operating in Nairobi, Kenya and allows travellers to book their bus tickets from their phone and pay with mobile money, saving customers time and money from having to physically go to the booking office.

BuuPass, previously known as Magic Bus Ticketing, won the prestigious 2016 Hult Prize Challenge, the world's largest student competition for social good. Their challenge was to better connect people to goods and resources. They were awarded the $1M prize from President Bill Clinton. The Hult Prize compelled them to start a social enterprise with the core belief that people and their time are valuable, and that everyone deserves access to opportunities. We accomplish this through offering widespread convenience to travellers, that allows people to save their time and money when booking their tickets.

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Sonia Kabra

Sonia Kabra is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of BuuPass.
BuuPass works with transport operators to create digital solutions for seamless movement of people, and now goods. BuuPass won the USD 1 million Hult Prize Challenge which is supported by President Bill Clinton. Hult Prize is a social entrepreneurship competition that brings together 25,000 + teams around the world. She leads the product and marketing functions of the business.

Sonia grew up in a small town located in central India called Jalgaon. She received a scholarship to represent her country at the Li Po Chun United World College in Hong Kong. Then, she was chosen to be a Davis Scholar at Earlham College to get a degree in Biochemistry. During her time at Earlham, Sonia has started the first entrepreneurship club in college which lead her to start a chapter of Hult Prize on Campus. She was also granted 10,000 USD by the Davis Projects for Peace Foundation to conduct a month-long summer camp for girls coming from remote villages from the underdeveloped central tribal belt in India. This camp was focused on STEM education and promoting careers in STEM. She also organized the first TEDx event on campus and got speakers from all over the country to participate. She also served as the research assistant in various research projects in molecular biology and bioinformatics at Earlham College and Hermen B. Wells Center for Pediatric Research (IUPUI).
In her free time, Sonia likes to mentor young girls interested in STEM and entrepreneurship.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniakabra/?originalSubdomain=ke