We know: ocean adventures and sustainability are the keys to a great life. And that’s what motivated Jana Garousto co-found Sober&Naked, an eco-bikini brand for active mermaids.

Olmo van Beurden and Hans van Mourik founded together SurfaWhile; a cool booking agency specialised in surf trips. However, it’s not like the traditional ones.

Let’s discover the reason why with Olmo!

Ida Bjerga is the Founder and Managing Director of Noise studio, a Danish studio specialised in digital strategy, branding and design for Sports Brands & Sports Tech. All of the staff members are passionate athletes with a creative mindset. Let’s chat with Ida to understand how to be different can make a difference in your surf business.

Sergi from Spain dedicated his life to doing what he believes in: surfing, woodwork, and environmentalism. As a result, he founded Flama Surf which is committed to building sustainable surfboards made of wood.

António Pedro has a clear goal in his mind. He is the Lifedreamer of a Portuguese association called Associação Surf Social Wave.

With a specific program based on individual and group coaching, he and its team are targeting unemployed people in Cascais to let them grow personally and professionally. 

“Why are wetsuits black and snowboard jackets a piece of art?” is the question that Marc Bohmann asked himself before creating BlackGoat wetsuits.

With an appealing design and innovative features, the founder is receiving so far great feedback by the Australian surfing community. Especially because Marc’s wetsuits are made with limestone neoprene, an impermeable material that is well-known for being eco-sustainable.

Let’s meet with Marc to understand his brand philosophy better!

Surf Getaways was created by one of Australia’s most accomplished and accredited female surf coaches, Serena Adams and Belinda Bradford an avid traveler, surfer, and experienced commercial marketer and entrepreneur. Their aim was to make surfing accessible for women of any age.

Lucia Roman is a creative, surfer and soul behind Ninefoot Studio. She established Ninefoot as a swimwear line, made with high ends recycled fabrics, manufacturing in small quantities, and working with small workshops, and slowly building up the business. Lucia previously worked in the fashion industry as a designer for more than 9 years. She was fed up with the 9-5, so four years ago, she moved from LA to Bali.

I’m Kim - 27-year-old German who moved to Lisbon 2 and a half years ago to escape the grey and rainy weather in Germany and to be closer to the beaches and ocean. After I finished my Master’s degree in Lisbon last year, I’ve started WONDA - An environmentally conscious swimwear brand aiming to provide a solution that fits every body shape. All our bikinis are made from recycled ocean and landfill plastic waste and are locally and fairly produced in a small factory in Lisbon. 

I’m Pablo Paciello, a semi-nomade iOS developer originally from Argentina. After moving around for about 8 years I am finally based in Biarritz, France. I am a freelance iOS developer and have some personal projects like Buoywatch.

Hey! My name is Kevin Le Goff, I’m the co-founder of Swenson, a community of creatives and entrepreneurs who do things with the ocean to imagine a better future. 

Nuno Nico is the founder of Waterlost, a multi-crossing surf brand that incorporates a clothing shop and a surf school. Today, he is going to tell us how he successfully integrated his business in the traditional fisherman town of Peniche.

Paddle-paddle is a French non-profit born in 2018 with both environmental and social dimensions. Our aim is to provide a second life to the surf equipment which still deserves to be used (ecological aspect).

Germany isn't normally a country you immediately associate with surfing, but at least one 🇩🇪 German surfer now makes his living from his passion.

Julian Siewert from Surfnomade came along to Surfpreneurs 2016 to see how it could help him out and ended up seeing a 20% increase in his 💰 revenues from insights learned during the camp.

A fellow Surfpreneur, Martim Dornellas from Van Der Waal, has an amazing alternative to wax. We asked him a few questions about how Van Der Waal came to existence, some lessons learnt during growing into new sales channels, and working with WSL surfers (!)

Here is a quick snippet of a story from a Surfpreneur who went from product idea, to selling out stock in 10 minutes - enjoy.

French native Alexis Noyon joined the October 2016 Camp in Portugal, and at this stage, Daho Surf Co was a project yet to be launched into the open. Since then, Alexis has launched and achieved some great success, all whilst running his Casablanca based advertising agency, also.