Gil Couto was born in 1994, in Porto, and spent his childhood and adolescence in the municipality of Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. In 2009, he joins Santa Maria da Feira's high school in Sciences & Technologies, choosing not to finish due to his early entry into the labor market. In 2014, Gil Couto decides to join the Superior School of Design, in Oliveira de Azeméis, to make a specialisation in Product Design & Technologies.

As a gradutator, Gil Couto started working as a freelancer in entr