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#81 Invisible House by Logan Paul
🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Jack Miller (US, 2022): Founder at bttn.
Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 16.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 417 Days.
Description: bttn. offers subscription-based ordering on direct-from-manufacturer medical supplies.
Prev. Experience: NetApp, ListenFirst Media.
Total Funding: $26.5 / $20M Latest Series A in 06/2022.
Notable Investors: Tiger Global Management, FUSE, Divergent Investments, Amol Deshpande, Patrick Spaulding Ryan.
👻 Opportunity:
Derrick Ko (US, 2022): Building something new.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 25.
Prev. Experience: Spin (Co-Founder), Lyft, Kicksend, Pivotal Labs, Startup Roots Singapore, iSyndica, Yum.sg, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard.
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:
Vanta (US, 2017) - Featured by Specter on: 2020 - Week 42.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 594 Days (Also predicted Series A in 05/21).
Description: Vanta is an automated security monitoring platform that helps companies get SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 certified quickly.
Total Funding: $163M / $110M Latest Series B in 06/2022.
Notable Investors: Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, LAUNCH Fund, GTMFund, Positive Sum, Terrence Rohan, Chloe Sladden, Jeremy Liew.
👻 Opportunity:
Duxto (US, 2022): Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 25.
Description: Duxto is an all in one community stack to build, grow and monetise your community.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: 20VC.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 06-2022.
🍒 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:
Spendflo (US, 2020) - Specter Rank: 287 📈
Description: Spendflo is a SaaS procurement and renewal solution dedicated to helping businesses negotiate, buy and renew their software tools.
Total Funding: $4.4M / Latest $4.4M Seed Round in 06/2022.
Notable Investors: Accel India, Signal Peak Ventures, BoldCap, Together Fund.
6 Months Growth: Web: +1,173%; Team: +250%; Social: +65%.
👻 Opportunity:
Libeo (EU, 2019) - Specter Rank: 401 📈
Description: Libeo is a leading specialist in B2B payments for SMEs.
Total Funding: $27M / Latest $21M Series A in 2/2021.
Notable Investors: LocalGlobe, Serena, Roosh Ventures, DST Global, Breega.
6 Months Growth: Web: 305%; Team: +31%; Social: +35%.
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