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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:
Ali Attar (EU, 2021): Founder / CPO at SigmaOS.
Featured by Specter on: 2020 - Week 21.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 909 Days.
Description: SigmaOS is a new type of browser designed for founders, researchers, and content creators to make it better and faster to work on the web.
Prev. Experience: Odin, Dromadis Health, Entrepreneur First, VUI Diagnostics, Purpl Events, Loop, Imperial College London, ZINE, mathscon, Acubed, Pulmonis.
Total Funding: $4.1M / $4M Latest Seed Round in 11/2022.
Notable Investors: LocalGlobe, 7percent Ventures, Carmen Alfonso Rico, Y Combinator, TrueSight Ventures, Matteo Franceschetti, Pioneer Fund, Moonfire Ventures.
👻 Opportunity:
Mathias Klenk (US, 2022): Founder at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 46.
Description: Mathias Klenk is building something new.
Prev. Experience: Co-Founder @Passbase, Squad Capital, Forbes Technology Council, Coinance Inc., UnifyID.
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:
Turbine (EU, 2015) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 20.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 187 Days.
Description: Turbine's platform understands the inner mechanisms of cancer enabling the discovery of novel targets & precision medicinal therapies.
Total Funding: $30.9M / €20M Latest Series A Round in 11/2022.
Notable Investors: Mercia Fund Managers, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, Accel, Delin Ventures, Atlantic Labs, Day One Capital, XTX Ventures, O2h Ventures.
👻 Opportunity:
Neura Health (US, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 46.
Description: Neura Health is a venture-backed startup with a mission to improve access and quality of care for neurological conditions.
Total Funding: $2.2M / $2.2M Latest Seed Round in 02/2022.
Notable Investors: Pear VC, Nikhil Krishnan, Norwest Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Next Play Ventures.
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:
OneSchema (US, 2021) - Specter Rank: 1,231 📈
Description: OneSchema develops embeddable tools designed to detect and correct errors in CSV data.
Total Funding: $6.4M / $6.3M Latest Seed Round in 11/2022.
Notable Investors: General Catalyst, Y Combinator.
6 Months Growth: Web: +99%; Team: +75%; Social: +275%.
👻 Opportunity:
Locofy (APAC, 2021) - Specter Rank: 902 📈
Description: Locofy provides a service that converts designs into code.
Total Funding: $3M / $3M Latest Pre-Seed Round in 03/2022.
Notable Investors: Accel, Golden Gate Ventures, January Capital, BoldCap.
6 Months Growth: Web: 5,423%; Team: +50%; Social: +2,902%.
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