Scuba Finders
Scuba Finders
Understanding the investment opportunity
Scuba Finders is an online travel agency that makes it easy for divers worldwide to enjoy the best underwater activities. Through a platform that adds value by upselling accommodation and flights, it helps save both time and money.
After 15 years of experience as divers and also as diving instructors, we found that on average, booking a diving course or dive takes 2 days. This is due to a very fragmented market where high and low-quality diving centers are mixed together, making them hard to distinguish from each other. Communication with diving centers is very slow, and onboarding upon arrival at the center takes approximately one hour.
At Scuba Finders, we make it easy for divers worldwide to enjoy the best underwater activities through a platform that adds value while saving time and money.
To achieve this, we select the best dive centers, ensuring they have real, high-quality facilities, verify that customer reviews are positive, and confirm that high standards of environmental respect are met.
Scuba Finders is an online travel agency specializing in diving, where users can book not only dives and diving courses but also complete travel packages, starting with underwater activities and adding accommodation and transportation. They also offer liveaboard packages. A team of specialized dive instructors prepares personalized travel plans for clients, and while some high-ticket clients will still need this service, we automate processes so that bookings can be made directly on the platform.
Scuba Finders stands out from the competition thanks to its focus on underwater activities, always keeping them at the core. This creates additional value for users who seek to build a trip around diving, where accommodation and flights complement the main activity, while also maintaining a transactional line of business for courses and dives.
The brand aims to become a pioneer in this sector of scuba diving, digitizing it and becoming the first worldwide reference for booking underwater activities.
INVESTMENT STAGE
MARKET
- marketplace
- travel
- scuba-diving
OFFICIAL WEBPAGE
Fiscal benefits
Scuba Finders Team
CBO
Juan Ripoll Fandos
CBO
Emprendedor con visión estratégica y perspicacia. Apasionado de los negocios, mercados financieros y del buceo.
CEO
Gonzalo García San Miguel
CEO
Ingeniero de minas e instructor de buceo con capacidades analíticas y de liderazgo
Nacho Rodés Galobart
BUSINESSANGEL
Lanzadera
ACCELERATOR
Reasons to invest View more data
- Founding team with experience in the recreational diving sector since 2010, diving instructors who have issued more than 100 certifications, and a Design and Development Team with over 18 years of experience each. Fully committed entrepreneurs have invested €194,500 in the project (disbursed funds).
- Scuba Finders addresses the challenges of an undigitized sector with a scalable solution.
- Demonstrated Product Market Fit, having signed more than 180 alliances with top-level diving centers, spread across 17 countries, and having recently started the billing phase successfully, obtaining profitable unit economics on the first purchase (ROI +x7.1).
- Organic traffic is increasing consistently, currently exceeding 4,000 clicks per month.
- Product developed with proprietary technology, marketplace with excellent user experience, social media login, variety of payment methods, internal ticketing system, user backoffice (profile), and a complete backoffice system for administration and diving centers, among others.
- In 2022, the market size for diving tourism was valued at $3.9 billion, and by 2032, it is expected to reach $16.9 billion, growing at a compound annual rate of 15.9% from 2023 to 2032. (Source: https://www.travelandtourworld.com/)
- Selected by Lanzadera in the March 2024 batch. Currently, in the acceleration process.
- ENISA granted in the amount of €180,000, conditional on the capital increase of the investment round.
Who is the reference investor?
Nacho Rodés Galobart
BUSINESSANGEL
About Nacho Rodés Galobart
Licenciado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas por IQS-URL, ha construido una sólida carrera como líder en marketing, innovación y negocio digital. Tras su paso por compañías como HAVAS Media, Clickair (hoy Vueling), ABA English y Logitravel.com, en 2014 cofundó Rocket Digital (antes RocketROI), posicionándola como una de las agencias de marketing digital más importantes de España, con más de 90 profesionales en Barcelona, Madrid y Milán. Además, Nacho es mentor en SeedRocket, apoyando a emprendedores en el desarrollo de startups innovadoras.- Investing in startups:Since 2014
- Investments:>5
I invest in Scuba Finders because it has excellent profitability and growth metrics in a vast market with great potential. I expect it to be a bet with exceptional returns in my investment portfolio.
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