Gota D'Agua is a surf camp at Costa da Caparica, a small beach town near Lisbon’s capital.

We chatted with one of the founders, Ricardo Carvalho, about how they started and what is their business approach.

Nalu Project is a surf brand from Portugal started by Eva Diemer. She started to use old wetsuits and converting them into beautiful neoprene products.

Eva shared with us in this interview her story of building a sustainable surf business.

Marie is from Hamburg, Germany, but lives part of the year in Bali where the pieces of her surfwear label Zealous (founded in 2010) are produced. In our interview she talks about the challenges of founding a surfwear brand (spoiler: there’s a few) but also the benefits that leading a life between a big city like Hamburg and the palm trees of Bali brings.

Thankfully, Pepijn Tigges, a professional surfer from the Netherlands, is helping Dutch surfers to level up their surfing prowess. Amidst his own rigorous training regime for competitions, Pepijn runs his own online surf coaching business, designed for those who feel they’ve mastered the basics, and are ready to take their surfing to the next level.

Have you ever heard of conventional surf wax being harmful to the oceans? Nah? Time to dive deeper into this topic and get to know an alternative wax that is doing good – for the oceans and you.

So here’s the story of surfpreneurs Rory Palmer-Rowe and his wife Jade who have founded The Good Wax Co. Producing a 100% organic wax the company also donates 10% of its profits for helping to save turtles.

Tania Rosenkranz is the founder of Free Your Mind Experience, which is not only a kite school based in Tarifa. It’s a way of life, a different “experience” where to discover kitesurf, catch the best waves, explore undiscovered spots in Morocco, Spain, and other destinations around the world.

Yvette Curtis is the founder of Wave Wahines, a nonprofit organization that aims to empower girls through surfing as a “girls only surf club”. Based in Croyde, a place with beautiful beaches and good surf at the coast of the UK, she tells us about her motivation, struggles and advice for all the other surfpreneurs out there.

When Aideen returned to Ireland after her trip she joined a meetup.com group and went on a surfing weekend in Bundoran, on the west coast. She wasn’t sure she’d enjoy cold water surfing, but just being in the water and connecting with like-minded people was so amazing I kept going back. 

We know: ocean adventures and sustainability are the keys to a great life. And that’s what motivated Jana Garous to 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.