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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:
Stephanie Bowker (EU, 2022): Co-Founder at Ourspace.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 37 as Stealth.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 40 Days.
Description: Ourspace is the collaborative team design canvas that equips tech leaders to make smart org design decisions.
Prev. Experience: Spendesk, Product Marketing Alliance, Gusto, Intuit, The Michigan Daily, Starz Entertainment, MyBandStock, FrontStreet Records LLC.
Total Funding: $2.5M / $2.5M Latest Pre-Seed Round in 10/2022.
Notable Investors: Connect Ventures, Seedcamp.
👻 Opportunity:
Gil Arditi (US, 2022): Founder at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 43.
Description: N/A.
Prev. Experience: Co-Founder @Octarine, Facebook AI, CompTIA, VentureBeat, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Lyft, Reflektion, AppDirect, Google, Onigma, Finjan Software, Israeli Ministry of Defense.
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:
Celestia (EU, 2019) - Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 29.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 473 Days.
Description: Celestia is a blockchain distributed ledger.
Total Funding: $56.5M / $55M Latest Series A Round in 10/2022.
Notable Investors: Bain Capital Crypto, Polychain, Binance Labs, Interchain Foundation, Placeholder, Jutta Steiner, Balaji Srinivasan, Maven 11 Capital, NFX, FTX Ventures, Eric Wall, Blockchain Capital, Delphi Digital, Figment.
👻 Opportunity:
June (EU, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 43.
Description: June is product analytics for subscription businesses.
Total Funding: $2.4M / $2.4M Latest Venture Round in 07/2021.
Notable Investors: base case capital, Y Combinator.
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:
Telda (MENA, 2021) - Specter Rank: 1 📈
Description: Telda is the easiest and fastest way to send, spend and save money.
Total Funding: $25M / $20M Latest Seed Round in 10/2022.
Notable Investors: Global Founders Capital, Sequoia Capital, Block, Class 5 Global.
6 Months Growth: Web: +265%; Team: +58%; Social: +92%.
👻 Opportunity:
Causal (EU, 2019) - Specter Rank: 549 📈
Description: Causal is a business planning platform that focuses on visualizing data and financial modelling.
Total Funding: $24M / $20M Latest Series A Round in 03/2022.
Notable Investors: Accel, Coatue, Akshay Kothari, Nitay Joffe, Sam Blond, Verissimo Ventures, Jeremy Stoppelman, Sam Bankman-Fried, Naval Ravikant, Scott Belsky.
6 Months Growth: Web: 264%; Team: +46%; Social: +41%.
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