Startup retreats

A team-building experience which will boost your company culture

Why organize a startup retreat?

Embrace your company culture, help new hires integrate into your team and let everyone get to know each other a little better! Keep everyone on the same page and prepare for rapid growth. Focus on the content of your retreat: consider including structured learning workshops or prepare a motivational CEO keynote.

We will take care of the rest: accommodation, event spaces, team-building activities, and all of the planning.

Startup retreats are also a great opportunity to celebrate your investment round. We’ll help you organize a company retreat your employees won’t soon forget and help you attract even more talent to your business.

Team building activities for startups

Startup teams are often under much higher pressure than well established large companies. Team members face bigger challenges in terms of collaboration and communication. In fact, a survey that looked into why startups fail most discovered that the 3rd most common reason was “not the right team” (23% of cases). Suitable team building activities can help you keep your colleagues engaged.

Look into some of the team activities for select Surf Office locations down below and let us help you to create the right work environment for your startup.

Team building in Lisbon

Team building in Ericeira

Team building Gran Canaria

Team building in Valencia

Team building in Barcelona

Team building in Prague

Team building Santa Cruz

Team building in Catskills

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Off-site package

Included in the package:

Productive space
Accommodation
Dedicated pre-arrival Retreat Planner
Customized schedule with activities
Meal reservations
Online concierge service

@talent_io goes to @surfoffice #tech #berlin to #lisbon #startup pic.twitter.com/fROhinQYr5
— Matthew Batchelor (@batchyboi88) May 15, 2017

The Peakons take in a bit of culture! #Barcelona #peakontour #offsite pic.twitter.com/ieJkCqJu5Y
— Peakon (@peakonteam) May 5, 2017

Why Surf Office?

 Saving time and money
Don’t allow the retreat planning to slow-down rapid growth of your startup.

 Removing risk
When you relocate your team for few days, you want to be sure that everything works on 100%.

 Domain expertise
Through organizing hundreds of retreats we know exactly what you expect and desire.

Case studies

ProxyClick takes their team remote for three beautiful days of team building in Lisbon

Recently, Proxyclick, a visitor management software start-up from Brussels brought their team of 20 to the sunny streets of Lisbon for three days of team-building, fun and collaboration.

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How Peakon turned their Barcelona retreat into a social media success

Peakon, with offices in London and Copenhagen, is a people analytics startup that aims to help companies make better people decisions. Both offices flew out to meet us in Barcelona, plan the strategy for the next few months, and inspire their team with some sun, productive work sessions during the day, and team-building activities.

Peakon startup retreat with team-building activities in Barcelona in May

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Annual retreat for 100 people which ended up with one epic dinner in an old historic palace

For their retreat in 2017, EVBox took half of their team (100 people) to Lisbon for a healthy mix of group and one-to-one activities, such as group city tours and plenty of meals with the team.

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A jam-packed & successful retreat with a big announcement at the end!

The retreat of Talent.io involved plenty of surfing, beach meetings, and trying the great local seafood cuisine. And a lot of hard working too!

They also hosted a 1-day workshop with a mentor from IDEO, who talked to them about designing organisation and helping them to prepare for massive growth.

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“I just wanted to say a thousand thanks to you both for all of your hardwork and help in the organising of our team summit. It was a huge success and we couldn’t have done it without you!”

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Emma Louise Bowen, People & Operations at Peakon