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🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Ahmad Baitalmal (US, 2022): Co-Founder at Mytra.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 27.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 747 Days.
Description: Mytra provides an AI-based warehouse management technology designed for moving and storing material throughout the facility.
Prev. Experience: Director - Factory Systems @ Rivian, Captain & Chief Research Officer @ Steep Ocean Exploration, Sr. Engineering Manager @ Tesla, Chief Product Architect @ PARC (a Xerox Company), CTO @ ROC-Connect, Sr. Director @ BitBuilder.
Total Funding: $78M / $50M Latest Series B on 07-2024.
Notable Investors: Eclipse Ventures, Greenoaks.
👻 Opportunity:
Duncan McCrae (US, 2023): Co-Founder at Abstract AI.
Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 38.
Description: Abstract AI is an AI-based marketing tool designed for e-commerce customer support.
Prev. Experience: Product Manager - Machine Learning @ Snap Inc., Product Manager - Ranking & Personalization @ Twitter, Co-Founder @ Presto AI (Acquired).
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:
Cubbit (EU, 2016) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 37.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 747 Days.
Description: Cubbit is a geo-distributed cloud enabler to compose your S3 cloud in minutes.
Total Funding: $25.5M / $12.5M Latest Seed on 07-2024.
Notable Investors: 2100 Ventures, Azimut Digitech Fund, CDP Venture Capital, ETF Partners, Eurenergia, Fabio Fregi, Growth Engine, Hydra, Joe Zadeh, LocalGlobe, Moonstone, Primo Ventures, Verve Ventures, Climate-KIC Acceleration Programme, GELLIFY, CDP Venture Capital, Barclays Corporate Banking, Digitech Venture Capital Fund, Techstars Ventures, TIM, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Primo Ventures, Italian Angels for Growth, European Commission, Smart & Start, 10x Investor Club, Massimo Prelz Oltramonti, Moffu labs, Ulixes Capital Partners, Azimut Libera Impresa, Massventures.
👻 Opportunity:
BRAIN Cyberawareness (EU, 2022) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 28.
Description: Brain is a SaaS solution for cyber security awareness.
Total Funding: Undisclosed Amount Latest Pre Seed on 10-2022.
Notable Investors: Telecom Paris.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 07-2024.
🍒 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:
Leya (EU, 2023) - Specter Rank: 2556📈
Description: Leya leverages AI to provide an assistant designed for legal professionals.
Total Funding: $11M / $10.5M Latest Seed on 05-2024.
Notable Investors: Hummingbird Ventures, Y Combinator, Darian Shirazi, Yuri Sagalov, SV Angel, Benchmark, Terrence Rohan.
6 Months Growth: Web: 194.74%; Team: 162.5%; Social: 109.2%.
👻 Opportunity:
Jet HR (EU, 2023) - Specter Rank: 437,806📈
Description: Jet HR provides a cloud-based platform for administrative management of small companies.
Total Funding: $5.13M / $5.13M Latest Pre Seed on 06-2023.
Notable Investors: 2100 Ventures, Giorgio Tinacci, Luca Foresti, Matteo Pichi, Alberto Dalmasso, Luca Ascani, Max Ciociola, Diego Piacentini, Dario Brignone, Luca Ferrari, Italian Founders Fund, EXOR N.V., David Clarke, Joe Zadeh, Ron Pragides, Proximity Capital, PranaVentures, Plug and Play.
6 Months Growth: Web: 118.78%; Team: 100%; Social: 25.4%.
