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Metaverse by Julie Blackmon
🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Daniel Zou (US, 2021): CEO & Co-Founder at Pahdo Labs.
Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 08.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 399 Days.
Description: Pahdo Labs develops an Anime-style action MMORPG and game creation platform.
Prev. Experience: Robinhood, Jump Trading LLC.
Total Funding: $17.6M / $15M Latest Series A in 03/2022.
Notable Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Long Journey Ventures, Pear VC, BoxGroup, Neo.
👻 Opportunity:
David Liao (US, 2022): Founder at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 14.
Description: N/A.
Prev. Experience: Figma, Twitch, Opendoor, Discord, SpaceX, Morgan Stanley.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: N/A.
🎱 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:
100ms (US, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 32.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 210 Days.
Description: 100ms is a live-video infrastructure startup that allows developers to build and deploy enterprise-class video applications in hours.
Total Funding: $24.5M / Latest $20M Series A in 02/2022.
Notable Investors: Matrix Partners India, Accel, STRIVE, Alpha Wave Incubation, LocalGlobe.
👻 Opportunity:
Flightcontrol (US, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 12.
Description: Flightcontrol is a developer of full-stack deploy software designed to create own cloud and full-stack infrastructure for app hosting and databases.
Total Funding: 500k / Latest Seed Round in 01/2022.
Notable Investors: Y Combinator, Active Capital, Sovereign's Capital.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 04-2022.
🍒 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:
Amenitiz (EU, 2017) - Specter Rank: 1265 📈
Description: Amenitiz is a all-in-one hospitality solution that drives direct bookings.
Total Funding: $38.4M / Latest $30M Venture Round in 04/2022.
Notable Investors: Backed VC, Point Nine Capital, Eight Roads Ventures, Otium Capital, Chalfen Ventures.
6 Months Growth: Team: +68%; Web: +37%; Social: +33%.
👻 Opportunity:
Mage (US, 2020) - Specter Rank: 297 📈
Description: Mage is a tool that transforms your data into predictions.
Total Funding: $6.3M / Latest $6.3M Seed Round in 10/2021.
Notable Investors: Alumni Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Designer Fund, Neo.
6 Months Growth: Team: +29%; Web: +2149%; Social: +208%.
That’s all for this edition of Specter Monitor!
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