Wanderu, travel czar Richard Branson's new favorite startup, yesterday launched its free bus- and train-booking app for iPhone and iPad, with plans to debut an Android version within the next two months.
The Boston startup was among three companies invited recently to Necker, Branson's private island, to pitch to the Virgin Group founder and a panel of other judges at his Extreme Tech Challenge after being culled from more than 2,000 applicants at last month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
"It was an incredible experience because I look up to him. He's the king of transportation," Wanderu CEO Polina Raygorodskaya said of the man behind Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Trains and the space tourism company Virgin Galactic. "He said he's very excited about us simplifying the booking process for bus and train travel."
The app allows people to type in any city, address or point of interest and then finds them the lowest fare from among the bus and train companies that Wanderu partners with, as well as directions to the nearest station.
It also allows people to put together trips with multiple connections and saves their favorite routes and all their reservations in one place so that they can board with a confirmation number, rather than fumbling for tickets.
Since it launched a desktop version of its service in 2013, Wanderu has had 5 million users, growing by 400 percent quarter over quarter, Raygorodskaya said.
Its next stop after launching its Android app will be expanding to Mexico and other countries, she said.
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