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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:
Yonatan Boguslavski (EU, 2022): Co-Founder at Port.
Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 46 as Stealth.
Out of Stealth Advantage: 158 Days.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 350 Days.
Description: Port is an IT firm that transforms DevOps tools into usable products that can be controlled and managed easily.
Prev. Experience: Israeli Military Intelligence.
Total Funding: $7M / $7M Latest Seed Round in 11/2022.
Notable Investors: TLV Partners, Yoav Landman, Shlomo Kramer.
👻 Opportunity:
Brett Adcock (US, 2022): Founder at Figure.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 27 as Stealth.
Out of Stealth Advantage: 120 Days.
Description: Figure's mission is to expand human capabilities through advanced AI.
Prev. Experience: Founder @Archer, Founder @Vettery, Street of Walls, Working.io.
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:
Seqera Labs (EU, 2018) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 13.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 208 Days.
Description: Seqera Labs is a cloud-based open-source workflow orchestration tool designed to simplify complicated data analysis pipelines.
Total Funding: $27.5M / €22M Latest Series A Round in 10/2022.
Notable Investors: Addition, BoxOne Ventures, Speedinvest, Talis Capital, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Amino Collective.
👻 Opportunity:
Eden AI (EU, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 44.
Description: A unique API connected to the best AI engines and combined with a powerful management platform.
Total Funding: €1.5M / €1.5M Round in 03/2022.
Notable Investors: Olivier Pomel, Nicolas Dessaigne, Sébastien Pahl, Julien Lemoine, Benjamin Fabre, Laurent Letourmy, Jean-Baptiste Aviat, Georges Gomes, Thomas Grange.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 11/2022.
🍒 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:
PhotoRoom (EU, 2019) - Specter Rank: 397 📈
Description: PhotoRoom is an AI-enabled image-capturing app that lets users create studio-quality product pictures in seconds.
Total Funding: $19.1M / $19M Latest Series A Round in 11/2022.
Notable Investors: Balderton Capital, Y Combinator, Adjacent, Hugging Face, Meta, FJ Labs.
6 Months Growth: Web: +64%; Team: +60%; Social: +287%.
👻 Opportunity:
Madbox (EU, 2018) - Specter Rank: 944 📈
Description: MadBox is a mobile game and handles developers composed of a team of very casual people with mad ambition.
Total Funding: $16.5M / $16.5M Latest Series A Round in 10/2019.
Notable Investors: Alven.
6 Months Growth: Web: 150%; Team: +01%; Social: +515%.
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