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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:
Antonia Marino (NAM, 2021): Co-Founder & COO at Kontempo.
Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 51.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 229 Days.
Description: Kontempo provides embedded payment solutions for B2B e-commerce.
Prev. Experience: Centeo, Uber, Tripda, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, FEA júnior USPFE.
Total Funding: $31.5M / $25M Debt Financing Round in 08/2022.
Notable Investors: Portage Ventures, Upper90, IGNIA, Tectonic Ventures, Asymmetric Capital Partners, SCOR Global P&C Ventures.
👻 Opportunity:
James Vosper-Robinson (EU, 2022): Co-Founder, Operations at GoTiger.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 32.
Description: Go Tiger is a food delivery start-up focussed on Asian groceries.
Prev. Experience: Director Operations DACHDirector @ Gorillas, Director of Strategic Projects @ Free Now, UK Ministry of Defence.
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:
Mosey (US, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 3.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 203 Days.
Description: Mosey is a compliance platform for HR teams and companies looking to scale remote work.
Total Funding: $18M / $18M Latest Series A in 08/2022.
Notable Investors: Canaan Partners, Charge Ventures, SemperVirens Venture Capital, Gusto.
👻 Opportunity:
DoubleCloud (EU, 2022) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 32.
Description: DoubleCloud is a platform that helps you build sub-second analytical applications on proven open-source technologies
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:
Talon (MENA, 2021) - Specter Rank: 366 📈
Description: Talon Cyber Security provides cybersecurity solutions for the distributed workforce.
Total Funding: $143M / Latest $100M Series A in 08/2022.
Notable Investors: Team8, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Evolution Equity Partners, Merlin Ventures, Sorenson Ventures, Zohar Zisapel.
6 Months Growth: Web: +323.81%; Team: +51.16%; Social: +946%.
👻 Opportunity:
Cortex (US, 2019) - Specter Rank: 529 📈
Description: Cortex is a software platform that manages and operates microservices.
Total Funding: $17.7M / Latest $15M Series A in 11/2021.
Notable Investors: Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Mathilde Collin, Scott Belsky, Shawn Burke, Dheeraj Khanna, Jack Altman, Manik Gupta, Cailen D'Sa, Gokul Rajaram, Sriram Krishnan, Brian Emerson, Gokul Rajaram, Russell D'Sa, Sam Lambert,Mathilde Collin , Vijay Nambiar, Sequoia Capital, Peter McKay, Rafael Garcia, Gaetan Castelein , Alexandr Wang.
6 Months Growth: Web: +43.04%; Team: +90.91%; Social: +359%.
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