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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:
Nora Jones (US, 2019): Founder and CEO at Jeli.
Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 47.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 1042 Days.
Description: Jeli is an incident analysis platform combining more comprehensive data to deliver proactive solutions and identify problems.
Prev. Experience: First Round Capital, Slack, Netflix, Jet.com, General Assembly, Alarm.com, US Navy.
Total Funding: $19M / $15M Latest Series A Round in 09/2022.
Notable Investors: Addition, Boldstart Ventures, Heavybit, Harrison Metal.
👻 Opportunity:
Jeremy Welch (US, 2022): Building Something New @Stealth.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 39.
Prev. Experience: Co-Founder @ Casa Inc., CPO @ Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, Hybernetic, Chrg, Appia, Google, Invite Media, Ignite Social Media, Shoeboxed.com.
🎱 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:
Tines (EU, 2018) - Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 52.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 281 Days.
Description: Tines is an enterprise automation platform designed to help security and ops teams automate manual workloads.
Total Funding: $96.2M / $55M Latest Series B Round in 10/2022.
Notable Investors: Felicis Ventures, Addition, Blossom Capital, Accel, Lux Capital, Silicon Valley CISO Investments, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund.
👻 Opportunity:
SlashAuth (YC W21) (US, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 39.
Description: Slashauth builds a developer platform for web3-enabled apps. Slashauth’s platform provides login functionality, role-based access control, data storage, and more to any web3 enabled application.
Notable Investors: Y Combinator, SB Opportunity Fund, 8-Bit Capital, 27V.
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:
Humaans (EU, 2020) - Specter Rank: 3237 📈
Description: Humaans turns complex processes like employee onboarding, off-boarding, and compensation management into simple workflows by integrating with other point solutions.
Total Funding: $20M / Latest $15M Series A Round in 10/2021.
Notable Investors: Jessie Danyi, Y Combinator, Lachy Groom, Dylan Field, Scott Belsky, Next Play Ventures, EXOR N.V, Moonfire Ventures, Exponent Founders Capital, Jeff Weiner, Tobais Lutke, Des Traynor.
6 Months Growth: Web: +34%; Team: +75%; Social: +472%.
👻 Opportunity:
Magical (US, 2021) - Specter Rank: 20 📈
Description: Magical is an all-in-one calendar - where meetings, actions, and knowledge are managed through smart automation, frictionless scheduling, and integrations with your favourite tools.
Total Funding: $3.3M / $3.3M Seed Round in 08/2021.
Notable Investors: Resolute Ventures, Aviv Growth Partners, Matias Ventures, Homeward Ventures, Ibex Investors, Lee Fixel.
6 Months Growth: Web: +2335%; Team: +21%; Social: +30%.
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