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At Work by Andy Anderson
🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Charles Orr (EU, 2022): Co-Founder / COO at Tesseract.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 10.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 181 Days.
Description: Tesseract offers commission-free energy; 10x cheaper; 10x better, and 100% renewable energy.
Prev. Experience: Mosaic, Revolut.
Total Funding: $78M / $78M Latest Round in 09/2022.
Notable Investors: Balderton Capital, Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Lowercarbon Capital, Tom Stafford, Martin Mignot, Nico Rosberg, BoxGroup, Chris Sacca, John Doran, Ribbit Capital.
👻 Opportunity:
Bobby Giangeruso (US, 2022) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 34.
Signal: Bobby is exploring new opportunities 👀
Prev. Experience: Alan, Jour (Acquired by Alan), Drop, Microsoft, Sunrise Calendar.
🎱 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:
Cledara (EU, 2018) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 12.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 172 Days.
Description: Cledara helps teams understand, manage, and control the SaaS used to scale operations, comply with regulations, and save money.
Total Funding: $24.3M / $20M Latest Series A Round in 09/2022.
Notable Investors: CommerzVentures, Nauta Capital, Notion Capital, Massive, Carbide Ventures, Eric Nadalin, Anthemis Group, Techstars, Chris Adelsbach.
👻 Opportunity:
TaxTris (EU, 2022) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 36.
Description: TaxTris is API-first tax automation and compliance for digital assets in the Web3 economy.
Total Funding: $1.6M / $1.6M Pre-Seed Round in 01/2022.
Notable Investors: Frontline Ventures, Seedcamp.
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:
Zeet (US, 2020) - Specter Rank: 786 📈
Description: Zeet is a developer-focused application platform that deploys code or apps to AWS, GCP, and other cloud providers.
Total Funding: $6.3M / Latest $4.3M Seed Round in 09/2022.
Notable Investors: Sequoia Capital, GGV Capital, Race Capital, Founders.
6 Months Growth: Web: +33%; Team: +33%; Social: +86%.
👻 Opportunity:
Avantir (EU, 2022) - Specter Rank: 35,281 📈
Description: Avantir is a bank payments platform for tech companies.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: N/A.
3 Months Growth: Web: +1458%; Team: +33%; Social: +15%.
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