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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:
Stefan Bader (EU, 2022): Co-Founder and CEO at Cello.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 07 as Stealth Signal.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 217 Days.
Description: Cello is a platform that helps businesses to harness their most passionate users to drive word-of-mouth growth at scale.
Prev. Experience: Shore GmbH, BASF, Continental, Parkpocket GmbH, Volkswagen Group South Africa.
Total Funding: €2.3M / €2.3M Latest Pre-Seed Round in 09/2022.
Notable Investors: byFounders, Possible Ventures, Tiny VC, Notion Capital.
👻 Opportunity:
Michael Karnjanaprakorn (US, 2022): Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 38.
Signal: “Taking some time off before I figure out what I’m doing next in my life” 👀
Prev. Experience: Co-Founder @Skillshare, Co-Founder @Otis.
🎱 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:
Noble (EU, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 21.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 119 Days.
Description: Noble helps companies quickly assess the creditworthiness of their customers and monitor it over time.
Total Funding: $18.1M / $18M Latest Series A Round in 09/2022.
Notable Investors: Insight Partners, Verissimo Ventures, Interplay, Flexport, TLV Partners, George Kaiser Family Foundation, Operator Partners, Cross River Digital Ventures, Plug and Play, Y Combinator.
Also featured by #Specter Talent on: 2021 - Week 17.
👻 Opportunity:
Rightfoot (US, 2018) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 38.
Description: Rightfoot enables developers to quickly and easily add debt repayment to any application.
Total Funding: $5M / $5M Latest Seed Round in 02/2021.
Notable Investors: Bain Capital Ventures, NFX, Kevin Hartz, BoxGroup, SemperVirens Venture Capital, FinTech Innovation Lab, Honeystone Ventures, Annie Robertson Hockey, Emily Chiu, Julia Hartz, Omri Dahan, The MBA Fund.
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:
Superb AI (US, 2018) - Specter Rank: 341 📈
Description: Superb AI is an end-to-end training data platform that automates data preparation at scale and makes building datasets quick, systematic, and repeatable.
Total Funding: $11.6M / Latest $9.3M Series A Round in 02/2021.
Notable Investors: Y Combinator, Duke University, VentureSouq, Pegasus Tech Ventures, Atinum Investment, Venture Souq, Korea Development Bank, Duke Angel Network, Sequoia Scout, Premier Partners, KT Investment Inc. Stonebridge Ventures, Murex Partners, Halla Holdings.
6 Months Growth: Web: +641%; Team: +28%; Social: +309%.
👻 Opportunity:
Trickest (EU, 2020) - Specter Rank: 107 📈
Description: Trickest are building a cloud-based crowdsourced platform for high-performance penetration testing automation.
SeeLessTotal Funding: $1.7M / $1.7M Seed Round in 08/2021.
Notable Investors: Daniel Dines, Credo Ventures, Earlybird Venture Capital, ICT Hub Venture.
6 Months Growth: Web: +451%; Team: +9%; Social: +28%.
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