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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:
Rudolf Donauer (EU, 2021): Co-Founder & MD at Milano Vice.
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Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 43.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 257 Days.
Description: Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
Prev. Experience: Mintablo, Project A Ventures, Delivery Hero SE, Drake Star Partners, KONUX GmbH, EY.
Total Funding: $6M / $6M Latest Round in 07/2022.
Notable Investors: Coefficient Capital, SpeedInvest, CG Partners, Christian Gaiser, Timo Meyer, Ole Strohschnieder, David Brunier.
👻 Opportunity:
Megan Murphy (EU, 2022): Founder at Stealth.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 27.
Prev. Experience: Hotjar, N26, Skyscanner, ArcTouch - Mobile & Connected Experiences, Zipongo - Eating Well Made Simple, Microsoft, FactSet Research Systems.
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:
Rivet (US, 2018) - Featured by Specter on: 2020 - Week 40.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 630 Days.
Description: Rivet is a modern medical billing platform built for financial transparency and operational efficiency.
Total Funding: $31.5M / $20.5M Latest Series B in 06/2022.
Notable Investors: Catalyst Investors, Pelion Venture Partners, Ankona Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Lux Capital.
👻 Opportunity:
elba (EU, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 27.
Description: elba detects security issues and guide your end-users on how to fix them.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: eFounders.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 07/2022.
🍒 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:
tl;dv (EU, 2020) - Specter Rank: 664 📈
Description: Record your remote meetings and tag important moments on the fly. Help your colleagues save time and stay in the know.
Total Funding: $4.49M / Latest $4.49M Seed Round in 06/2022.
Notable Investors: K Fund, Shilling, Oscar Pierre, another.vc, Seedcamp, MSM.
6 Months Growth: Web: +464%; Team: +62%; Social: +2,100%.
👻 Opportunity:
Primer (EU, 2020) - Specter Rank: 40 📈
Description: The automation platform for payments. End-to-end payment flows with no code.
Total Funding: $73.4M / Latest $50M Series B Round in 10/2021.
Notable Investors: Balderton Capital, ICONIQ Growth, Accel, Seedcamp, Speedinvest, RTP Global, Kinled Holding.
6 Months Growth: Web: 251%; Team: +73%; Social: +41%.
That’s all for this edition of Specter Monitor!
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