BusRight Raises $30M to Expand Student Transportation Platform

Something funny about buses. Everybody rode one, nobody thought about the system behind it. Then Keith Corso and Phillip Dunn looked at the chaos, the radios, the paper routes, the guesswork, and decided the biggest mass transit network in the country deserved better than organized confusion. Keith Corso, CEO, and Phillip Dunn, CPO, did not romanticize the problem. They quantified it, lived it, and then started tightening bolts where others kept adding noise.

So BusRight got to work. Not loud, not gimmicky, just methodical. Build the rails before you run the train. Fast forward and nearly 1M parents, drivers, dispatchers, and administrators across 36 states are now plugged into the platform. Turns out when you give a fragmented system real visibility, it starts acting like one. Routes stop being guesses. Communication stops being delayed. Accountability stops being optional.

Now the capital shows up. More than $30M, led by Volition Capital, with Tomy Han stepping onto the board. That is not just a check, that is conviction with a seat at the table. The kind of move that says this is no longer a “nice to have” tool, this is infrastructure with gravity. Money follows clarity, and BusRight has been unusually clear about the problem it is solving.

And the product is not playing small. We are talking route building in minutes, live GPS, real time parent communication, ridership visibility that actually tells you who is on which bus instead of who should be. Then you layer in what is coming next. A 24/7 AI powered transportation agent. Hyper local mapping that understands the streets better than the people driving them. NFC based safety features that close the loop on where kids are and where they are supposed to be.

Phillip Dunn brings the operator’s scar tissue from running tech inside one of the largest school districts in the country. That matters. This is not theory, this is lived experience turned into product. Keith Corso pairs that with founder energy that does not drift. It locks in, compounds, and executes without theatrics.

There is a bigger signal here if you are paying attention. The US K 12 system is a $900B machine, and school transportation is its circulatory system. For decades, it ran on habit. BusRight is turning it into software. Once that shift happens, everything downstream gets sharper. Costs tighten. Safety improves. Decision making speeds up because the data finally shows up on time.

And if you are a district still juggling spreadsheets and radio calls, you are not nostalgic, you are exposed. The gap is no longer philosophical, it is operational.