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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:
Joshua Lachter (US, 2021): Co-Founder, Chief Business Officer at Synonym.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 17.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 169 Days.
Description: Synonym is a financing and development platform for essential bio-manufacturing infrastructure.
Prev. Experience: ASAPP Inc., Greenmantle, Locus Analytics, Goldman Sachs.
Total Funding: $6.3M / $6.3M Latest Pre-Seed Round in 10/2022.
Notable Investors: Blue Horizon Corporation, Andreessen Horowitz, Thia Ventures, Giant Ventures.
👻 Opportunity:
J.P. Carlucci (US, 2022): Co-Founder and COO at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 41.
Description: N/A.
Prev. Experience: Founder & Board Member @ Safer.com, Founder @ Sourcepoint Technologies Inc, Avast, Distromatic Inc, Condors Swim Club.
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:
Hexens (EU, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 39.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 16 Days.
Description: Hexens secures digital assets and data, serving cybersecurity needs.
Total Funding: $4.2M / $4.2M Latest Seed Round in 10/2022.
Notable Investors: IOSG Ventures, Delta Blockchain Fund, Chapter One Ventures, Tenzor capital, Hash Capital, imToken.
👻 Opportunity:
Tana (EU, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 41.
Description: Tana is reinventing how humans, teams, and computers work together.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: N/A.
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:
Astra (US, 2016) - Specter Rank: 3,512 📈
Description: Astra is an automation platform for the movement of money. Through financial APIs, Astra enables consumers to move funds between depository accounts based on rules or build out virtual accounts on their existing financial accounts.
Total Funding: $56.2M / Latest $40M Debt & Series A Round in 10/2022.
Notable Investors: CoVenture Holding Company, FPV Ventures, Slow Ventures, Allegis Capital, Bossanova Investimentos, Hustle Fund, Jacob Gibson, Alumni Ventures, Louis Beryl.
6 Months Growth: Web: +185%; Team: +22%; Social: +125%.
👻 Opportunity:
Ponder (US, 2021) - Specter Rank: 246 📈
Description: Ponder provides enterprise-ready tools for rapid, flexible experimentation with data at scale.
Total Funding: $7M / Latest $7M Seed Round in 03/2022.
Notable Investors: Lightspeed Ventures Partners, Intel Capital, 8VC, The House Fund.
6 Months Growth: Web: 38%; Team: +156%; Social: +618%.
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