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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:
Amit Ben (US, 2022): Founder and CEO at One AI.
Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 11.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 437 Days.
Description: One AI is an API-first, language AI service built for developers.
Prev. Experience: LogMeIn, Nanorep, Flash Networks, Activeroom Digital Signage.
Total Funding: $8M / $8M Latest Seed in 05/2022.
Notable Investors: TechAviv Founder Partners, Ariel Maislos, Tomer Weingarten.
👻 Opportunity:
Ben Mills (US, 2022): Co-Founder at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 22.
Description: N/A.
Prev. Experience: Solana Labs, Thinkful, Venmo, Braintree, Sanders New Media.
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:
Material Security (US, 2017) - Featured by Specter on: 2020 - Week 42.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 575 Days.
Description: Material Security is an email security company that develops data-driven security software to protect an organization's users and data.
Total Funding: $162M / $100M Latest Series C in 05/2022.
Notable Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Jaws Ventures, Operator Partners.
👻 Opportunity:
MoneyKit (US, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - W21.
Additional Talent Signal - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - W20.
Description: N/A.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: N/A.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 05-2022
Special Feature by Specter Talent: Kristopher Stipech (Cash App, Square, Apple)
🍒 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:
Mashgin (US, 2014) - Specter Rank: 2453 📈
Description: Mashgin is a software company that makes AI and computer vision checkout systems.
Total Funding: $73.7M / Latest $62.5M Series B Round in 05/2022.
Notable Investors: New Enterprise Associates, Matrix Partners, Y Combinator, TenOneTen Ventures, Root Ventures, Qasar Younis, Wei Guo, Brad Flora.
6 Months Growth: Web: +248.83; Team: +64.29%; Social: +281.3%.
👻 Opportunity:
Sable (US, 2019) - Specter Rank: 32 📈
Description: Sable is a digital banking platform and the only full-suite banking solution for internationals in the U.S., providing U.S. bank accounts, debit and credit cards.
Total Funding: $4.7m / Latest Seed Round in 09/2020.
Notable Investors: JAM Fund, Donna Harris, Justin Mateen, Sean Bill, Daintree.VC, Raphael Danilo, C3 Ventures, Y Combinator, Ying Fund, Outbound Ventures.
6 Months Growth: Web: +20%; Team: +61%; Social: +54%.
That’s all for this edition of Specter Monitor!
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