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By Mue Studio
🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Alán Jaime Misrahi (LATAM, 2021): Co-Founder & CEO at Draftea.
Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 30.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 399 Days.
Description: Draftea is the first daily fantasy sports (DFS) platform in the Spanish-speaking world.
Prev. Experience: Sequoia Capital, Permira, Pacific Lake Partners, GICSA, S.C. Oficia, Ritch, Mueller, Heather y Nicolau, S.C. Oficial, Zinser, Esponda y Gomez Mont Abogados.
Total Funding: $37.2M / $20M Series A Round in 09/2022.
Also predicted Seed Round of $17.2M in 03/2022.
Notable Investors: Bullpen Capital, Courtside Ventures, Cristiano Ronaldo, Jorge Mendes, Kaszek, Kevin Durant, Sequoia Capital, StepStone Group, Travis Kelce, Arrive.
👻 Opportunity:
Jeremy Hermann (US, 2022): Co-Founder and CEO at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 35.
Description: N/A.
Prev. Experience: Co-Founder @ Tecton, Sequoia Capital, Costanoa Ventures, Uber, Hearsay Systems, ZangZing, Symantec, Vontu, TIBCO.
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:
Jar (APAC, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 45.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 281 Days.
Description: Jar is an investment tech startup that allows users to save money and invest in digital gold.
Total Funding: $111.7M / $22.6M Latest Series B Round in 08/2022.
Also Predicted $50M Venture Round in 06/2022 and $34.6M Series A Round in 07/2022.
Notable Investors: Tiger Global Management, Tribe Capital, WEH Ventures, Eximius Ventures, Adam Nash, Prophetic Ventures, Yes VC, Force Ventures, Zachary Hargreaves, Panthera Capital Ventures, Folius Ventures, Cloud Capital, rocketship.vc, Arkam Ventures.
👻 Opportunity:
Andrei Dușu (EU, 2022): Co-Founder, CPO @ Stealth Startup
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 33.
Description: N/A.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: N/A.
Prev. Experience: Google, OLX Group, McKinsey & Company, Columbia Business School, PwC.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 09/2022.
🍒 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:
OneSignal (US, 2014) - Specter Rank: 2716 📈
Description: OneSignal is a customer messaging and engagement platform that allows businesses to create meaningful customer connections.
Total Funding: $82M / Latest $50M Series C Round in 09/2022.
Notable Investors: HubSpot, SignalFire, Asymmetry Ventures, Rakuten Capital, BAM Elevate, Nimble Partners, MRTNZ Ventures, Clark Landry, Auren Hoffman, Zach Coelius, Gil, Elbaz, James Conigliaro, Devin Guan.
6 Months Growth: Web: +3%; Team: +35%; Social: +399%.
👻 Opportunity:
Writesonic (US, 2021) - Specter Rank: 82 📈
Description: Writesonic is an AI-powered writing assistant with a mission to empower everyone in the world to write anything and publish anywhere.
Total Funding: $2.6M / Latest $2.5M Seed Round in 09/2021.
Notable Investors: Soma Capital, Broom Ventures, BluePointe Ventures, Rebel Fund, Y Combinator, Atlas Pacific Capital, Amino Capital, HOF Capital.
6 Months Growth: Web: +33%; Team: +100%; Social: +72%.
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