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New from Specter: Fastest Growing Machine Learning Startups 🤖
The global machine learning market is expected to be worth an impressive $777.38 billion by 2032. 📈
Inside the report: Discover 20 companies that are experiencing fast growth within the sector. From e-commerce optimisation and cybersecurity to drug discovery and AI model development, machine learning is transforming a wide range of different industries. 🌱
🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Alexander Talkanitsa (EU, 2021): Co-Founder at finmid.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 34.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 600 Days.
Description: Finmid enables software companies to integrate financial services into their product portfolio through a single API integration.
Prev. Experience: Business Operations @ N26 Group.
Total Funding: $38.8M / $24.4M Latest Series A on 04-2024.
Notable Investors: Blossom Capital, Earlybird Venture Capital, Max Tayenthal.
👻 Opportunity:
Ayush Chordia (US, 2024): Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 07.
Prev. Experience: Head of Data Search @ Cruise, Head of Webex Assistant Engineering @ Cisco, Director of Engineering & Applied Research @ Voicea (Acquired by Cisco), Co-Founder & CTO @ Wrappup (Acquired by Voicea).
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🎱 Strategic Signals
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:
Factorial (EU, 2016) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 29.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 271 Days.
Description: Factorial is a human resources company offering solutions that automate human resource processes.
Total Funding: $299.9M / $79.2M Latest Venture Round on 04-2024
Notable investors: CRV, K Fund, Point Nine, Creandum, GIC, Columbia Lake Partners, Tiger Global Management, Pere Valles, Atomico, Itnig, Tackle Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, General Catalyst.
👻 Opportunity:
Cardinal (US, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 14.
Description: Cardinal is an AI-driven feature backlog to assess which customers want which features, how important is it for them, and tie them to your product strategy.
Total Funding: $500K / $500K Latest Pre Seed Round on 04-2023.
Notable Investors: Y Combinator.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 04/2024.
🍒 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:
Auradine (US, 2022) - Specter Rank: 1354📈
Description: Auradine is a provider of web infrastructure solutions for blockchain, security, and privacy.
Total Funding: $161M / $80M Latest Series B on 04-2024.
Notable Investors: DCVC, Cota Capital, Mayfield Fund, Stanford University, Celesta Capital, Marathon Digital, Stanford University, Top Tier Capital Partners, StepStone Group, MVP Ventures, Maverick Capital.
6 Months Growth: Web: 18.88%; Team: 26.83%; Social: 28.1%.
👻 Opportunity:
Reka AI (US, 2023) - Specter Rank: 346📈
Description: Reka is an AI research and product company that develops models to benefit humanity, organizations, and enterprises.
Total Funding: $60M / $60M Latest Series A on 06-2023.
Notable Investors: DST Global, Radical Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Nat Friedman.
6 Months Growth: Web: 141.88%; Team: 81.82%; Social: 39.8%.
