About us

GreenBus is first of its kind in Saudi Arabia and our humble beginning is rooted to an esteemed university, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). Upon enrolling in the “Create-E” course of Entrepreneurship Institute (EIKFUPM) in the university, we were asked to submit business ideas. During the brain storming sessions, one of the co-founder, Aijaz, came up with the idea of solving the problem in booking bus ticket in Saudi Arabia. This idea was quickly accepted and we three teamed up to work towards it. One of the reasons, for quick acceptance of this idea was, we belonged to the segment that was suffering with this problem, and adding to it no one else was doing this in kingdom.  

In Saudi Arabia we have two types of bus services; one is government running SAPTCO, and another is private running umrah services (Umrah is pilgrimage to Mecca, performed by muslim, undertaken during anytime in year except during Hajj season). Since the inception of this idea we were inclined towards successfully running SAPTCO, as it was not having service for online ticket booking. Upon progressing with the course we shifted our region of focus from SAPTCO to private running umrah buses, as they seemed to be a feasible option for us. Upon successfully completing “Create E”; we enrolled in design thinking course and business plan competition with same idea. During business plan competition we started meeting with local agents in khobar and initiated our efforts for getting them onboard with us on this idea. At end of business plan competition we were selected for the incubator program in the university and that embarked our quest for successfully solving the problems in the system for booking umrah bus tickets. Before the start of our incubator program we already had an agent who was ready to come overboard with GreenBus.

During the incubation program, we started meeting more of the commuters every week, tried to find out the problems faced by them and kept on bringing more agents overboard . The studies in KFUPM were very tedious; to cope up with the work at incubator program demanded a lot of efforts from our side. Weekly discussion based classes, work update meetings, mentor sessions and investor meetings made us make innumerable changes in the business plan.