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by Alexis Christodoulou
🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Julian Green (US, 2020): Co-Founder & CEO at Headroom.
Featured by Specter on: 2020 - Week 43.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 677 Days.
Description: Headroom is an AI-driven virtual meeting interface.
Prev. Experience: X the moonshot factory, Google, Jetpac, StubHub, Houzz, eBay, Bain & Company.
Total Funding: $14M / $9M Series A Round in 08/2022.
Notable Investors: AME Cloud Ventures, Morado Ventures, Gradient Ventures, LDV Capital, Equal Opportunity Ventures, Evan Nisselson, Serge Belongie, Ash Patel.
👻 Opportunity:
Mark Gilbert (US, 2022): Co-Founder and CEO at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 34.
Description: N/A.
Prev. Experience: Vice President Of Product Management @ Twilio, CTO @ Hearsay Systems, Microsoft, Corel.
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:
Kula (US, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 23.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 86 Days.
Description: Kula is a recruitment automation platform built to enable hyper-growth companies to build massive talent pipelines on autopilot.
Total Funding: $14.7M / $12M Latest Seed Round in 08/2022.
Notable Investors: Together Fund, Venture Highway, Global Founders Capital, Sequoia Capital India, Square Peg Capital.
👻 Opportunity:
Pragma (US, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 33.
Description: Pragma is a backend game engine that enables multiplayer and social games.
Total Funding: $38.2M / $22M Latest Series B Round in 10/2021.
Notable Investors: Jarl Mohn, Advancit Capital, Amr Awadallah, Daher Capital, Kevin Lin, Mark Pincus, Nate Mitchell, Greylock, William Hockey, Insight Partners, Andy Dinh, Overwolf, Ted Gill, Upfront Ventures
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:
Parafin (US, 2020) - Specter Rank: 3944 📈
Description: Parafin is democratising access to growth capital.
Total Funding: $244M / Latest $210M Series B Round in 08/2022.
Notable Investors: GIC, Ribbit Capital, Atalaya Capital, Jefferies Financial Group, Thrive Capital,
6 Months Growth: Web: +100%; Team: +50%; Social: +80%.
👻 Opportunity:
TBD (UK, 2022) - Specter Rank: 👻
Description: TBD is reinventing the account model of the internet to democratise the financial world.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: N/A.
6 Months Growth: Web: +1000%; Team: +500%; Social: +1000%.
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