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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:
Christopher Evans (EU, 2021): Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at incident.io.
Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 10.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 488 Days.
Description: incident.io is a Slack-powered incident management platform.
Prev. Experience: Monzo Bank, MOO, Marks and Spencer, Irisys
Total Funding: $34.2M / $28.7M Latest Round in 07/2022.
Notable Investors: Index Ventures, MANTIS Venture Capital, Point Nine, Lachy Groom, Mike Krieger, Vinay Hiremath.
👻 Opportunity:
Robert Toledo (US, 2022): Founder at Stealth.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 27.
Prev. Experience: Honey, The Sloth, Cute Minds Inc, Tradesy, ShoeDazzle.
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:
Arist (US, 2018) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 7.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 146 Days.
Description: Arist helps companies deliver learning, training, and nudges in the flow of work via Teams, Slack, and text message-based courses.
Total Funding: $16.1M / $12M Latest Series A in 07/2022.
Notable Investors: Rainfall Ventures, PeakSpan Capital, Global Founders Capital, Acadian Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Y Combinator, Hack VC, Derek Schoettle.
👻 Opportunity:
Matter (US, 2019) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 28.
Description: Matter pulls everything you want to read into one beautiful place. With powerful tools, curation, seamless audio and more, we're building a reader for today's internet.
Total Funding: $7.1M / Latest $7M Series A in 10/2021
Notable Investors: Y Combinator, GV, Lachy Groom, Kevin Hartz, Shrug Capital, Adapt.
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:
Lightyear (EU, 2020) - Specter Rank: 1827 📈
Description: Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
Total Funding: $35.6M / Latest $25M Series A in 07/2022.
Notable Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mosaic Ventures, Taavet+Sten, Metaplanet, Virgin Group, Harsh Sinha, Taavet Hinrikus, Sten Tamkivi, Eileen Burbidge, Taavi Tamkivi, Jaan Tallinn, and Wander Rutgers.
6 Months Growth: Web: +105%; Team: +81%; Social: +52%.
👻 Opportunity:
talent protocol (EU, 2020) - Specter Rank: 1997 📈
Description: The web3 professional network where anyone can discover high-potential talent and invest in their careers.
Total Funding: $1.65M / Latest $1.3M Seed Round in 12/2021.
Notable Investors: Flori Ventures, Good News Ventures, Protocol Labs.
6 Months Growth: Web: 425%; Team: +46%; Social: +59%.
That’s all for this edition of Specter Monitor!
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