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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:
Daniel Yubi (EU, 2022): Founder and CEO at Payable.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 13 as Stealth.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 194 Days.
Description: Payable helps finance and engineering teams track, reconcile and move money with our payment operations platform.
Prev. Experience: On Deck, Checkout.com, Curve, Noble Inc., Paybook, PayClip Inc., Local-e, Acción 180, StartupBus, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International, Municipio de San Pedro Garza Garcia, Servicios Legales JAG y Socios, S.C., VALIA, Leadership exCHANGE: Global Leadership Programs, El Naufrago, Canales, Dávila, S.C..
Total Funding: $6.1M / $6.1M Latest Seed Round in 10/2022.
Notable Investors: CRV, Earlybird Venture Capital, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Perry Blacher, Francesco Simoneschi, Hristo Borisov, Paul Klanschek, Rory Stirling, Mark Ransford, Dileep Thazhmon.
👻 Opportunity:
Jeff Chapin (US, 2022): Co-Founder at Haven.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 40.
Description: Haven is powering homes and the grid with intelligent energy storage.
Prev. Experience: Co-Founder, Chief of Product @Casper, CommonMade, IDEO.
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:
Stability AI (EU, 2019) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 09.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 218 Days.
Description: Stability AI designs and implements an open AI tool to create images based on text input given.
Total Funding: $100M / $100M Latest Venture Round in 10/2022.
👻 Opportunity:
Threads (US, 2017) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 40.
Description: Threads is a platform designed to make work more inclusive by empowering teams to discuss and make decisions at scale.
Total Funding: $10.5M / Latest Series B Round in 01/2020.
Notable Investors: Sequoia Capital, Foundation Capital, Chloe Sladden, Avichal Garg.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 10/2022.
🍒 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:
Carbon6 (CA, 2021) - Specter Rank: 69 📈
Description: Carbon6 provides a software suite to help online entrepreneurs streamline everyday operations and improve profitability.
Total Funding: $81.9M / Latest $66M Series A Round in 10/2022.
Notable Investors: White Star Capital, MidCap Financial, Benevolent Capital, Kale Investment Fund.
6 Months Growth: Web: +2,564%; Team: +89%; Social: +169%.
👻 Opportunity:
Theator (US, 2018) - Specter Rank: 180 📈
Description: Theator is a surgical intelligence platform that combines artificial intelligence and computer vision to improve surgeon performance.
Total Funding: $42.5M / Latest $24M Series A Round in 04/2022.
Notable Investors: Insight Partners, NFX, StageOne Ventures, iAngels, StageOne Ventures, Mayo Clinic, Neil Hunt, Ariel Cohen, Ariel Cohen, Anne Wojcicki.
6 Months Growth: Web: 85%; Team: +293%; Social: +60%.
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