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Home in Bed, 2021 By Shannon Cartier Lucy
🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Gil Dolev (EU, 2022): Founder & CEO at Dream Security.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 43.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 397 Days.
Description: Dream Security is a software company that provides critical infrastructure solutions.
Prev. Experience: Founder & CEO (Acquired) @ Wayout Group, Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft, Adallom.
Total Funding: $53.6M / $33.6M Latest Seed Round in 11/2023.
Notable Investors: Dovi Frances, Michael Eisenberg, Assaf Hefetz, Adi Shalev, Yevgeny Dibrov.
👻 Opportunity:
Masumi Reynders (US, 2023): Founder at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 47.
Prev. Experience: Senior Director, Advanced Technologies @ Meta, Director, Product Planning & Business Operations, Silicon @ Facebook, Director, Product Management, Silicon & TechEng @ Google, Motorola Mobility, a Google Company.
🎱 Strategic Intelligence
Inspired by Michael Lewis’ Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Strategic Intelligence is a stealth engine that tracks online and social behaviour of corporate insiders and leading investors.
🪄 Predicted:
LucidLink (US, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 28.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 141 Days.
Description: LucidLink is a developer of a cloud-native file service that connects creative teams working on shared data sets.
Total Funding: $114.6M / $75M Latest Series C Round in 11/2023.
Notable Investors: Bain Capital Ventures, Baseline Ventures, Headline, S28 Capital, BrightCap Ventures, Adobe, Top Tier Capital Partners, Fathom Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures.
👻 Opportunity:
AtomicJar(US, 2023): Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 47.
Description: AtomicJar is an integration testing platform that enables developers to build databases and web frameworks more efficiently.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 11/2023.
🍒 Cherry-Picked Companies
Specter tracks the alternative data performance of millions of companies and, on a monthly basis, flags the ones who are likely to increase in valuation.
🪄 Predicted:
Indy (EU, 2023) - Specter Rank: 8,864 📈
Description: Indy offers end-to-end and advanced AI-powered accounting software for freelancers and professionals.
Total Funding: €86M / €40M Latest Series C Round in 11/2023.
Notable Investors: Alven, BlackFin Capital Partners, IXO Private Equity, La Maison Partners, Singular.
3 Months Growth: Web: -8.03%; Team: +9.77%; Social: +5.76%.
👻 Opportunity:
Hebbia (US, 2023) - Specter Rank: 109 📈
Description: Hebbia develops AI productivity tools used to reinvent the search engine.
Total Funding: $31.1M / $30M Latest Series A Round in 06/2022.
Notable Investors: Index Ventures, Radical Ventures, Stanley Druckenmiller, Ram Shriram, Martin Chavez.
3 Months Growth: Web: +86.54%; Team: 39.13%; Social: +35.85%.
