Uber alum secures $2.7 million for group-travel startup Buster

A charter busing service called Buster just secured $2.69 million in an equity-only round, according to an SEC filing.
As a student at Cornell University, Williamsburg’s Matthew Kochman founded a company called Moving Every Student Safely (or M.E.S.S. Express), with the goal of facilitating student transportation for social excursions. He took that experience with logistics into his role as the General Manager for Uber in New York City, where he served for nine months, starting in 2011. There’s a post on the Buster blog connecting the two experiences.
Now, Kochman’s combining the two endeavors to make Buster, a platform for booking charter buses, limos or vans, depending on your group’s needs. We first reported on the company in our first edition of Startup Roundup, when it secured its initial $255,000 debt round. The goal of the company is to become a Priceline for group travel.

Our second presenter is @BusterHQ, hoping to become the Priceline of group travel! #startups #nyc #entrepreneurs pic.twitter.com/NHc1il8EcS

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