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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 Nezamolmaleki (EU, 2020): Founder & CPO at Faircado.
Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 25.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 517 Days.
Description: Faircado is your second-hand shopping assistant working as a browser extension that makes you save time, money and CO2. For free.
Prev. Experience: 2hearts, AirHelp, sofatutor GmbH, AtriaTech, Homafaran Georgia, Ordonline, Iran Traveling Center, Afsaneh Daily Newspaper, ISNA News Agency.
Total Funding: €550K / €500K Latest Pre-Seed Round in 11/2022.
Notable Investors: BackBone Ventures, Alex Melzer, Bjoern Keune, Atomico, Éléonore Frère, Peak, Earlybird Venture Capital, Alexander Grots, Elena Lehner, Stan Lenzen.
👻 Opportunity:
Deepak Shrivastava (US, 2022): Founder in Residence at AI Fund.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 47.
Description: Harnessing AI for the housing / communal living space.
Prev. Experience: Co-Founder @ Porter & Sail, Dropbox, Morgan Stanley, Community-Word Project, Suiteness, Inhaven, Oneday, The Flex Company, Hotel Credits, Deloitte Consulting, Study Hall Schoo, Swiss Re, Marsh.
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:
V7 Labs (EU, 2018) - Featured by Specter on: 2020 - Week 42.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 775 Days.
Description: V7 is an AI data engine to assist clients in managing datasets.
Total Funding: $43M / $33M Latest Series A Round in 11/2022.
Notable Investors: Radical Ventures, Amadeus Capital Partners, Francois Collet, José Valim, Oriol Vinyals, Ashish Vaswani, Temasek Holdings, Air Street Capital, Miele Venture, Partech.
👻 Opportunity:
Decipad (EU, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 47.
Description: Decipad is an interactive notebook that gathers information, builds models in minutes, and brings ideas to life without coding.
Total Funding: $5M / $5M Latest Seed Round in 03/2022.
Notable Investors: Entrée Capital, Target Global, Flybridge, Shilling, Angel Invest, Founder Collective.
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:
SearchLand (EU, 2019) - Specter Rank: 3,435 📈
Description: SearchLand is a proptech that lets property developers and investors find potential sites and contact landowners directly via the platform.
Total Funding: €2.5M / €2.5M Latest Seed Round in 11/2022.
Notable Investors: Fuel Ventures.
6 Months Growth: Web: +144%; Team: +25%; Social: +358%.
👻 Opportunity:
Luma AI (US, 2021) - Specter Rank: 4 📈
Description: Luma AI enables everyone to capture and experience the world in 3D.
Total Funding: $8.1M / $3.8M Latest Seed Round in 01/2022.
Notable Investors: Matrix Partners, South Park Commons, Context Ventures, Andreas Klinger, Amplify Partners.
6 Months Growth: Web: 766%; Team: +15%; Social: +7,672%.
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