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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:
Bar Geron (MENA, 2020): Co-Founder and CEO at Balance.
Featured by Specter on: 2020 - Week 34.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 712 Days.
Description: Balance is a B2B payments experience company offering the first online checkout built for businesses.
Prev. Experience: Forbes Business Council, Jibe Ventures, Q.AIQ, Behalf, PayPal, Elbit Systems, AMAREL, IDF - Israel Defense Forces
Total Funding: $86.5M / $56M Latest Rounds in 07/2022.
Notable Investors: Forerunner Ventures, Ribbit Capital.
👻 Opportunity:
Jacob Kobler (EU, 2022): Co-Founder and CEO at consola.finance.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 31.
Prev. Experience: Group Product Lead @ Bitpanda, BCG, Simon-Kucher & Partners, KPMG Advisory, Miba AG, Moore Stephens Schwarz Kallinger Zwettler.
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:
Betterstack (EU, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 43.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 268 Days
Description: Better Stack helps developers in building a better internet by making powerful observability tools that are beautifully designed and a joy to use. Making it easier to ship better and more reliable software faster.
Total Funding: $18.6M / $18.6M Latest Series A in 07/2022.
Notable Investors: Creandum, Zachary Sims, Emil Eifrem, Michael Stoppelman, K5 Global, Lachy Groom, Madhu Muthukumar, Credo Ventures, Susa Ventures.
👻 Opportunity:
Katie Siegel (US, 2022) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 31.
Description: Stealth startup in commercial EV/climate space.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: N/A.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 08/2022.
🍒 Cherry-Picked Companies
Specter tracks the alternative data performance of millions of companies and, on a monthly basis, flags the ones who are likely to increase in valuation.
🪄 Predicted:
NG.CASH (SA, 2021) - Specter Rank: 4,850 📈
Description: NG.CASH is a digital bank built for GenZ teenagers to teach them in making smart financial decisions with their ca$h.
Total Funding: $10M / Latest $10M Seed Round in 08/2022.
Notable Investors: Norte Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, 17Sigma, Monashees.
6 Months Growth: Web: +20.98%, Team: +54.17%, Social: +299%.
👻 Opportunity:
Nothing (EU, 2020) - Specter Rank: 2 📈
Description: Nothing is a consumer tech company that develops a digital technology to connect products and services.
Total Funding: $150.2M / Latest $6.39M Equity Crowd Funding in 04/2022.
Notable Investors: C Ventures, EQT Ventures, GV, Tony Fadell, Casey Neistat
6 Months Growth: Web: 90.19%; Social: +67.75%.
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