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BuuPass, Inc.

NAIROBI · Other Travel

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on BuuPass, Inc. — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$1.6M
Total raised · real
2
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 60%
Sector rank · raised
Series C
Latest stage · inferred · Mon Jul 07 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

BuuPass, Inc. has raised $1.6M over 2 rounds; too few niche peers to rank its valuation yet.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the travel sector profile.

Leadership

No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.

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Where it sits in Other Travel

BuuPass, Inc. is one of 176 Other Travel companies tracked from NAIROBI. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 41% of sector peers), and in the long tail by modeled valuation est..

Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.

Kenyan mobility startup BuuPass has raised an undisclosed amount of strategic funding from Yango Ventures.

Kenyan mobility startup BuuPass has raised an undisclosed amount of strategic funding from Yango Ventures.

mobility

As reported in public records reported — not modeled.

US
Jurisdiction
$0–$1M
Issuer revenue
Rule 506(b)
Reg D exemption
20
Investors (latest)
2022-12-15
First sale
Amount raised vs valuation, by round

Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.

Amount raised · realModeled valuation · estCumulative funded · real
$0$2.5M$5.0M$7.5M$10MSeed · 2022-12-15 Raised $1.6M (real) Modeled valuation $6.6M (est)$1.6M$6.6MSeed2022

The line shows cumulative reported funding over the period; + labels show new capital added between points when there is room. Toggle on-bar figures, plus the niche-peer and market averages, to read this company against its cohort. Benchmarks are modeled medians.

Financing ladder & sequence gaps
Seed$1.6M · 2022
Series C · 2025no Series A / Series B on file

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 40%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
Base estimate est.
Conservative case
Upside case
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series Ca $40M–$100M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the travel sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
3.5 yr
On record since
2022
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 176 companies in Other Travel. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages) 0.6× of median
This company$1.6M
Sector median$2.5M
Latest round — vs other Series C rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 0.0× of median
This company$1.6M
Sector median$50.0M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)
This company
Sector median$8.9M

Raised more than 41% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 1% of peers (estimate).

Full financing history

Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.

StageAmount · realAnnouncedPost-money · estValue · estConf.
Seed$1.6M2022-12-15$8.2M$6.6M90%
Series C2025-07-0745%
What happened at each round

Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.

  1. Seed$1.6M2022-12-15
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
    • 20 investors on this round.
  2. Series C2025-07-07
    • Raised 31 mo later.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$2.6M
Modeled next size est.range $1.7M$4.2M
Last step-up
Capital velocity

Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.

Key people & operators

Officers, directors and promoters named in this company's public recordsreported — the people who run it (not its investors). "Also runs" counts come from name-matching across all records, so verify before acting.

PersonRoleAlso runsTied since
Sonia Sandeep Kabra2022-12
Wyclife Onyango Omondi2022-12
Registry & provenance

BuuPass, Inc. is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

United States
Country of record
US
Jurisdiction
1956585
SEC CIK
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Semantically similar

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Frequently asked
How much funding has BuuPass, Inc. raised?
BuuPass, Inc. has raised approximately $1.6M in disclosed capital across 2 recorded financing rounds, aggregated from public filings.
What funding stage is BuuPass, Inc. at?
BuuPass, Inc.'s latest modeled financing stage is Series C. Its most recent recorded round closed around Mon Jul 07.
What does BuuPass, Inc. do and where is it based?
BuuPass, Inc. operates in the Other Travel sector, based in NAIROBI. Kenyan mobility startup BuuPass has raised an undisclosed amount of strategic funding from Yango Ventures.
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