Press kit
Dive with Buddy, Inc.
Everything media needs to cover Buddy and its founder — boilerplate, a fact sheet, brand assets, story angles, and bios. Grab what you need; for interviews, imagery, or anything else, get in touch.
About Buddy
Boilerplate — short
Dive with Buddy, Inc — 'Buddy' — is the ecosystem platform for the water adventure industry, connecting divers, dive shops, and marine tourism operators through three products: the Buddy consumer app, the BookWithBuddy.com booking marketplace, and Buddy for Business, the operator booking and management platform — all supported by an in-house content studio powered by the Buddy Explorer team.
Boilerplate — long
Dive with Buddy, Inc — 'Buddy' — is building the operating system for the water adventure industry through a connected ecosystem of three products:
- The Buddy app is the consumer home for divers and ocean lovers — a digital dive log, social network, and discovery platform where users log dives (including automatic syncing from ScubaPro dive computers), connect with buddies, explore dive sites, and book experiences directly.
- BookWithBuddy.com is the real-time booking marketplace where travelers discover and book dive trips, courses, tours, and water adventures from operators worldwide — including GoPro Escapes, GoPro's curated dive travel program, powered exclusively by Buddy.
- Buddy for Business is the complete booking and operations platform purpose-built for dive shops, charters, and marine tourism operators — covering scheduling, payments, waivers, customer management, and embeddable booking widgets for any operator website.
What makes Buddy different is the flywheel between the three: a native community of divers feeds the marketplace, the marketplace feeds operators, and operators bring their customers into the community. Fueling that flywheel is Buddy's in-house content studio, powered by the Buddy Explorer team — a network of divers, creators, and ambassadors producing destination guides, dive site content, and campaign media from the water, not a desk.
Buddy partners with leading brands across the industry including GoPro, ScubaPro, and DAN (Divers Alert Network), and champions ocean conservation through initiatives like its Save the Seas Environmental Program.
Founded in 2020 by co-founders Alexis Jabbour (CEO) and Tamas Szilagyi (CTO), Dive with Buddy, Inc is headquartered in Marietta, Georgia, with a distributed team operating globally.
Fact sheet
- Company
- Dive with Buddy, Inc — 'Buddy'
- Founded
- 2020
- Co-founders
- Alexis Jabbour (CEO), Tamas Szilagyi (CTO)
- Headquarters
- Marietta, Georgia (distributed team operating globally)
- Products
- Buddy app (consumer) · BookWithBuddy.com (marketplace) · Buddy for Business (operator platform)
- In-house studio
- Content and campaign production powered by the Buddy Explorer team
- Users
- 20,000+ registered users
- Key partnerships
- GoPro (GoPro Escapes), ScubaPro (G3 / LogTrak integration), DAN, NEX, Stream2Sea, Lionfish Zookeeper
- Notable programs
- GoPro Escapes (launched May 26, 2026), Buddy Explorer Program, Save the Seas Environmental Program
- Website
- bookwithbuddy.com
- Social
- @divewithbuddy · @bookwithbuddy
- Media contact
- alexis@divewithbuddy.com
Brand assets
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Founder — Alexis Jabbour
One-liner
Alexis Jabbour is the founder and CEO of Buddy — the booking platform, community, and software powering the future of the water adventure business.
Short bio
Alexis Jabbour is the founder and CEO of Dive with Buddy, Inc — 'Buddy.' A strategic creative director who longed to make ads for the ocean, she spent a decade crafting award-winning campaigns for Porsche, Adobe, Volkswagen, and EA before pointing those instincts at the water world. In 2020, she co-founded Buddy to give divers, shops, and marine tourism professionals what every other adventure industry takes for granted — one platform to book, connect, and grow. Today Buddy powers GoPro Escapes, partners with ScubaPro and DAN, and champions the ocean through its Save the Seas Environmental Program. A PADI Rescue Diver splitting her time between Hawaii, Baja California Sur, and wherever the water calls, Alexis builds from inside the community Buddy serves — and Buddy is just getting started.
A new studio headshot and additional formats available on request. Media contact: alexis@divewithbuddy.com.
Co-founder — Tamas Szilagyi
One-liner
Tamas Szilagyi is the co-founder and CTO of Buddy — he builds software for people who'd rather be outside.
Short bio
Tamas Szilagyi is the co-founder and CTO of Dive with Buddy, Inc — 'Buddy' — where he leads platform architecture, the product team, and everything the company ships. Budapest-born and Amsterdam-based, he spent a decade building data and engineering systems across agencies, aviation, and banking — for clients including ING, Transavia, Volkswagen, and Miro — before turning that craft toward the water. At Buddy, he builds the technical backbone connecting divers, operators, and partners on one platform.
Additional formats available on request.