A little bit of our back story, and plans for the coming months.
🎉 It was Caretta Research's fourth birthday at the weekend, and I couldn't help but share this picture showing our fantastic new office emerging from a building site in Athens. We've converted a former fashion warehouse into a modern space to bring together our analyst, data science, sales, marketing and operations colleagues. We're in the beautiful Psyri district just north of Monastiraki Square and the Acropolis, and if the furniture arrives on time, the team will be moving in later in November. Birthdays are a good time to reflect, and it's humbling to think how far we've come in those few years. Tom Morrod and I first worked together on the very earliest broadcast and media technology industry research back in 2005, and we always had the idea of building our own firm focused on helping tech vendors and buyers with great, usable data and advice. It took the Covid pandemic to make it a reality, with our early meetings involving sitting in the cold outside pubs and cafes in north London in the early autumn of 2020 planning what we then called "NewCo". The name Caretta Research came along (thanks to Tom's encounter with a Loggerhead sea turtle in a tourist-free pandemic-era Mediterranean) along with our first client – a Middle East content studio planning to launch a streaming platform. Since then we've grown to become a diverse team of nearly 20 people based in five countries: a mix of some of the most experienced analysts in the industry, along with an amazing team of new talent. Caretta Portal, launched on our birthday two years ago, is providing market sizing data, competitive analysis and informing crucial business decisions for hundreds of users. Most of all, as an analyst-owned business, we're not in it to make profits for corporate owners or investors, but we're here to help buyers and vendors in the broadcast, media, pro AV, ad tech and sports industries be more successful. Please join us in blowing out some virtual candles on the birthday cake 🎂