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New from Specter: Fastest Growing Climate Tech Startups 🤖
The climate technology sector is projected to grow from $20.34 billion in 2023 to $182.54 billion by 2033 📈
Inside the report: Discover 12 companies driving growth in the climate technology sector with innovations like lithium-sulphur batteries, sustainable e-fuels, and digital agriculture, reshaping industries and enhancing sustainability 🌍
🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Pauline Glikman (EU, 2022): Co-Founder & CEO at Payflows.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 50.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 495 Days.
Description: Payflows is a FinTech company that develops a SaaS platform for finance teams.
Prev. Experience: VP Operations @ Luko, Head of Growth Experiences @ Airbnb.
Total Funding: $32.1M / $26.6M Latest Series A on 04-2024.
Notable Investors: Balderton Capital, Headline, Ribbit Capital, Salomon Aiach.
👻 Opportunity:
Albert Malikov (Europe, 2024): Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 11.
Prev. Experience: Head of Product @ Plaid, Product @ Uber, Co-Founder & CPO (Acquired by Mail.Ru Group) @ inShopper, Consultant @ McKinsey & Company, Equity Research & Sales @ UBS Investment Bank.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: N/A.
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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:
Centrifuge (EU, 2017) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 39.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 201 Days.
Description: Centrifuge is a decentralized operating system that provides the infrastructure and ecosystem to manage and invest in tokenized assets.
Total Funding: $30.8M / $15M Latest Series A on 04-2024
Notable Investors: Arrington Capital, Bloccelerate VC, Borderless Capital, Circle Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Fabric Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Galaxy Digital, Hash CIB, IOSG Ventures, Modular Capital, ParaFi Capital, ProtoCap, The Spartan Group, Wintermute Ventures, BlockTower Capital, Robert Leshner, L1 Digital, Scytale Ventures, BlueYard Capital, High Naut Capital, FinTech Collective, Mosaic Ventures, Moonwhale Ventures, Semantic Ventures.
👻 Opportunity:
ZML (EU, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 15.
Description: ZML is building an inference engine with total integrability, peak performance on a wide range of chips, from edge to backend.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: N/A.
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:
Rippling (United States, 2016) - Specter Rank: 7101📈
Description: Rippling is an HR management company that offers a workforce management platform, streamlining HR and IT operations across organizations.
Total Funding: $1.4B / $200M Latest Series F on 04-2024
Notable Investors: Initialized Capital, Social Capital, Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Threshold, Coatue, Greenoaks, UpHonest Capital, S2 Capital, Abstract Ventures, Soma Capital, Amino Capital, CSC Upshot, FundersClub.
6 Months Growth: Web: 32.58%; Team: 23.27%; Social: 17.5%.
👻 Opportunity:
GroMo (APAC, 2019) - Specter Rank: 50📈
Description: GroMo is a financial product selling app which empowers users to earn money by selling insurance, credit cards, savings accounts etc.
Total Funding: $11.6M / $11M Latest Series A on 06-2022.
Notable Investors: DST Global, Radical Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Nat Friedman, Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, Soma Capital, AceCap, SIG Asia Investments, Kunal Shah, Rebel Fund, Kube VC, Beyond Next Ventures, Ramakant Sharma, Utsav Somani, Alok Mittal, Nitin Gupta, Das Capital, Abhishek Goyal, Ashish Sharma, Niraj Singh, Hauz Khas Ventures, Chandan Joshi, Pranav Tiwari.
6 Months Growth: Web: 141.88%; Team: 81.82%; Social: 39.8%.
