David Carratt
Founder Director at Raqu.io, Founder Director at Vie Carratt, Director at Falcon.io
Virginia Water, England
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Director at Raqu.io
2021 - Current
Founder & Director
2012
Founder & Director
2012
At Vie Carratt we recognise great new companies in the making and work with them to unleash their true potential and take them to the next level. We provide digital marketing and communication services to enable internet and technology businesses to develop their equity story and promote it to analysts who influence opinions about the capital market value of businesses, potential investors and buyers. We focus on the areas that will make a difference and set your company apart at exit.
Director
2012 - 2019
Falcon Social is a software platform which allows users in departments as diverse as HR, Operations, Customer Service and Marketing to Create, Launch, Share and Measure social media campaigns. Falcon enables teams working in different functional areas within HQ, in local operating companies or dealerships and in supporting agencies, to collaborate to ensure a consistent consumer experience across the different social media types. The platform incorporates complete functionality for social publishing and monitoring by multiple users in different departments and yet remains simple to use with an engaging, visualisation based user experience (UX). Falcon supports real-time campaigns across Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, Instagram and display ad networks. Falcon.io was endorsed by Facebook in April 2012 as a Global Top 10 Preferred Marketing Developer, and in November 2012 by Google as the first European based Google+ Pages Partner. Falcon Social is a winner of a 2013 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award. Falcon.iohas direct client relationships with global customers such as Carlsberg, Swarovski, Orangina Schweppes, Stena Line, Deutsche Telekom AG, Warner Music, Conde Nast & First Hotel Group. Falcon.io was acquired by Cision in January 2019
Partner
1998 - 2018
Kennet is a technology growth equity investor. We invest in established, fast-growing companies providing information technology products and business services that leverage technology. Kennet provides expansion capital to businesses that want to accelerate growth and build exceptional shareholder value in partnership with an experienced investor.
Director
2010 - 2017
Board member at TMC, Europe's leading provider of medical diagnostic services based on teleradiology and telepathology. Helped to grow the business, increase profitability and eventually sell the business to Unilabs.
Business Advisor
2012 - 2017
We created SalesSeek to provide Start-ups and small businesses with 50% of Enterprise CRM tools and 50% of Enterprise Marketing platforms, but without the cost and integration hassles.
Director
2003 - 2014
Director
2002 - 2011
Non Exec Director
2009 - 2010
Investor director on the BuyVIP board
Education
BSc Hons
1972 - 1975