Aloha to the future of marine tourism.
Buddy has launched — and we're already powering real dive and marine-tourism businesses, with revenue to match. We pair a booking marketplace and a diver community with the software operators run on. We're starting with diving, proving it out, and expanding across the water world from there.
One ecosystem
The consumer app, the marketplace, and the operator platform — built to work as one.
Partnerships
The brands building the water world with us. Visit each partner on bookwithbuddy.com.
The founder story
I learned to dive as a teenager, trading babysitting jobs for dives on a summer trip to the Florida Keys. Then life took me into advertising and diving fell away — until a group trip with friends to the Rosario Islands in Colombia pulled me right back in. That week I kept hitting the same friction: logging my dives, tipping the instructor, recommending the shop and guides to everyone back home. And it clicked — why doesn't diving have the same visibility every other sport and adventure takes for granted?
I'd just spent an entire decade creating ideas — pitching and building products and campaigns for some of the biggest companies in the world. So I could see both the problem and the opportunity: give divers an easy way to find shops and instructors and meet other divers, and give the business side — the professionals and the shops — real visibility, and a simpler way to manage and market their bookings.
So I moved to the water and started building Buddy with my co-founder Tamas. Today it's a launched platform three parts deep, real operators on board, and partnerships with names like GoPro. But the thesis hasn't changed since Colombia: the water world deserves infrastructure built with a diver's love and a designer's craft.
From The Buddy Guidebook
How We Build
The Buddy Guidebook is a behind-the-scenes look at how we think, what we value, and how we build the platform powering the future of water-based adventure.
For investors
Launched, growing, and raising our seed round.
Buddy is live, serving real dive and marine-tourism operators, and building the infrastructure layer for a global, underserved industry — starting with dive and expanding across the water world. If you invest in category-defining consumer and vertical SaaS, let's talk. View the deck to dive in.
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The Buddy investor deck
A quick look at the market, the product, our traction, and where we're headed next.
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