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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:
Tim Davis (US, 2021): Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Modular.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 04.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 154 Days.
Description: Modular is the next-generation AI developer platform unifying the development and deployment of AI for the world.
Prev. Experience: Udemy, Google, Fluc Inc, CrowdSend, MinterEllison, National Australia Bank.
Total Funding: $30M / $30M Latest Seed Round in 06/2022.
Notable Investors: GV, Factory, SV Angel, Greylock.
👻 Opportunity:
Alex Atallah (US, 2022): Founder at Stealth.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 27.
Description: Building new things in Crypto.
Prev. Experience: Co-Founder @OpenSea, Whatsgoodly Inc., Zugata, Palantir Technologies, hostess.fm, Inc., Apple.
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:
Medallion (US, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 03.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 521 Days (Also predicted Series A in 06/2021 and Series B in 11/2021).
Description: Medallion provides a network management platform for the healthcare industry.
Total Funding: $85M / $35M Latest Series C in 06/2022.
Notable Investors: GV, Spark Capital, Optus Ventures, Box Group, Salesforce Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil, Roivant Sciences, Mario Schlosser.
👻 Opportunity:
Mike Hudack (EU, 2022): CEO at Avian Labs.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 26.
Description: Stealth FinTech / FinTech
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: N/A.
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:
Teal (US, 2019) - Specter Rank: 530 📈
Description: Teal is a personal career growth platform that gives you the tools, skills & recommendations you need to accelerate your career.
Total Funding: $11.3M / Latest $6.3M Seed Round in 06/2022.
Notable Investors: City Light Capital, Flybridge, Tom Willerer, Lerer Hippeau, Pareto Holdings, Rethink Education, Zelkova Ventures, Gaingels, Oceans, Human Ventures.
6 Months Growth: Web: +132%; Team: +47%; Social: +57%.
👻 Opportunity:
Even (APAC, 2020) - Specter Rank: 13 📈
Description: Even is a health-tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the hospitals.
Total Funding: $5M / Latest Venture Round in 12/2021.
Notable Investors: Veda VC, Tom Stafford, iSeed, Khosla Ventures, Lachy Groom, MPGI, Kunal Shah, Founders Fund, Nithin Kamath, Nikesh Arora.
6 Months Growth: Web: 527%; Team: +112%; Social: +1,763%.
That’s all for this edition of Specter Monitor!
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