Busforfun focuses on innovative mobility for workplaces or major events

A fleet of coaches to take thousands of fans to concerts, shows, competitions and other live events. This is the mission of Busforfun, which has been on the European market for a decade offering 4.0 mobility services. The company operates in two market segments: business and consumer. In the former, home-to-work mobility solutions for employees are implemented for companies and local production districts, while the activity in the B2C is more diversified and ranges from point-to-point transport to transport for large events and rental with driver. "Busforfun was born as a start-up and Intesa Sanpaolo provided us with support through their Innovation centre," recalls Luca Campanile, CEO and co-founder with Davide Buscato of Pmi, "with training courses and we were also helped financially. We then became an innovative start-up and today we are a company with about 13 million in revenues at intergroup level'. The start-up was born thanks to an endowment of EUR 260,000, a sum collected from the founders' liquidations and the support of family members.

After Covid, turnover grew with a double-digit trend: in 2023 revenues were 9 million, they will become 13 by the end of the year (+44%) and the budget for 2025 is 25 million (+92%). The business model has been replicated in other markets: in 2023, the landing in Spain with the opening of an office in Barcelona and the opening of routes with France and Portugal to get fans from those countries to the event locations. Thus a spider's web of connections is born, also linking Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and Switzerland. A sprint that places Busforfun in 15th position of the Growth Leaders thanks to a Cagr of 201.7% between 2020 and 2023. Today, the SME uses a fleet of around 7,000 buses, rented from partner carriers, deployed according to planned needs. "We make the possibility of experiencing concerts and other events first-hand accessible to young and very young people who are used to shared use and not car ownership," Campanile continues. There is also the social component, and our buses are also increasingly used for short distances because we have agreements with platforms that sell event tickets, offering round-trip transport'. The clientele is heterogeneous and ranges from the very young to families going to the concert together to boomer fans of Formula 1, MotoGP and Superbike. In addition to transport, Busforfun aims to sell a range of ancillary services from insurance to catering, "and the frontier is to add overnight accommodation," adds Campanile.