Busbud
Founded in 2011 in Montreal, Canada, Busbud is a leading global mobility group offering an online marketplace that specializes in booking intercity bus tickets. Busbud aims to disrupt the fragmented and analog bus industry, which currently serves over 10 billion passengers per year worldwide. Through Busbud’s aggregated marketplace, which offers bus routes and tickets from 4,000 bus operators in 80 countries, the company provides bus travelers a more affordable and efficient way to book intercity and cross-country travel. Today, Busbud is one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies and has established a global presence allowing customers to book ground transportation to and from over 20,000 cities and in 15 languages and currencies around the world.
LP’s vision for the company was inspired from the personal hurdles he faced during a post-graduation backpacking trip across South America. On this trip he came to appreciate the centrality of bus travel in the region but also the challenge faced by customers looking to identify the best transportation options for their needs given the high fragmentation of the bus operator landscape. Upon his return to Canada, LP recruited two friends, Michael Gradek and Frédéric Thouin, to co-found a company that would address these problems and bring the same level of convenience that existed in booking flights, taxis, and hotel rooms online to bus tickets.
While the company was not immune to the challenges imposed on the travel industry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Busbud emerged from this reset stronger than ever by using the period to sharpen its approach towards becoming a global leader in ground transportation including via expansion to multimodal travel, and by launching B2B products to digitize the businesses of local bus operators. Today, the company successfully leads one of the world’s largest B2B2C ground transportation marketplaces, which attracted more than 100 million travellers in 2023, and is helping bus operators around the world shift from analog to fully digital operations.
LP was selected as an Endeavor Entrepreneur through the Canada office in 2024.
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