<article><a href="http://www.starticket.com.mm" target="_blank">Star Ticket</a>, an online bus ticket booking platform, has raised a $200,000 funding round from <a href="https://8bod.com/companies" target="_blank">BOD Tech</a>, a Myanmar-focused local internet company.</article>

<a href="http://www.starticket.com.mm" target="_blank">Star Ticket</a>, an online bus ticket booking platform, has raised a $200,000 funding round from <a href="https://8bod.com/companies" target="_blank">BOD Tech</a>, a Myanmar-focused local internet company.
The company will use the proceeds to expand its operations and marketing reach across 12 cities in Myanmar, said Thet Mon Aye, managing director of Ignite Software Solutions, who initiated the <a href="http://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/myanmars-starticket-relies-on-offline-sales-to-get-tech-challenged-users-on-highway-buses-17910/" target="_blank">Star Ticket project</a>.
Star Ticket allows users to book bus tickets online or make the payments offline at the nearest convenient store.
“Currently we have our software working in 12 cities. With the help of BOD&#8217;s investment, we can grab other bus operators at those 12 cities,” said Aye.
Aye won the Rice Bowl award for tech startup of the year in 2015 for the Star Ticket project. She was also mentioned among Forbes Asia’s under 30 young entrepreneurs in 2016.
BOD Tech other investment in Myanmar include Flymya.com, a travel booking site for making flight bookings, tour packages and car rentals. “By going with them, we can also cross sell our products and it will make us grow quickly. As we are both in travel sector, I chose BOD for strategic partnership,” said Aye during an interaction with DEALSTREETASIA.
Founded by Mike Than Tun Win, BOD Tech has also invested in a number of companies including Flymya.com, inmya.com, shopmyar.com, yangond2d.com, laundry.com.mm and onemya.com. Their latest investment is in a food delivery start-up, Door2Door in which they took a 50 per cent stake in early 2016.
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