Type of site Travel Search Engine Area served Worldwide CEO Rod Cuthbert (Feb 2012–) | Headquarters Melbourne, Australia Website rome2rio.com Founded 2010 | |
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Industry Travel, Technology, Search Engine Slogan(s) "Discover how to get anywhere by plane, train, bus, ferry and automobile" Founders Michael Cameron, Bernhard Tschirren Profiles | ||
Rome2rio is a multimodal transport search engine that launched in April 2011. Rome2rio's platform is capable of long-distance (inter-city) trip planning as well as local (intra-city) journey planning. Users can input any address, town or landmark as the origin and destination and Rome2rio searches a database of flight, train, ferry, bus and driving routes to present route and price options for travelling to that destination.
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The company is based in Melbourne, Australia.
Michael cameron co founder rome2rio
Data coverage
The transport data searched by Rome2rio includes:
plus driving directions for most countries worldwide.
White Label and API
The company initially offered both white label and API options for partners wishing to integrate its multi-modal results into web sites and mobile apps. In July 2015 it announced that support for its white label product would cease in January 2016, citing pressure on development resources brought on by rapid growth in its consumer business.
Founders and history
Rome2rio was founded by Bernhard Tschirren and Dr Michael Cameron, two ex-Microsoft software engineers. The site was born out of their frustrations with the lack of a fast, easy-to-use, and comprehensive multi-modal search engine with global coverage. The two co-founders began work on the product in September 2010 and won the Melbourne Azure Bizspark Camp Award in February 2011. The beta version of Rome2rio was officially launched on 7 April 2011. Rod Cuthbert, founder of Viator, joined the team as CEO in 2012. Rome2rio won the People's Choice Award at Phocuswright 2012, the TRAVELtech GlobalCollect Website of the Year in 2013, and the Data Specialist Award at the 2015 WITovation Awards.
The company has raised $2.8 million in funding including a 2014 grant of $1.2 million from Commercialisation Australia.