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Crowded Skies by Shane Wheatcroft
🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Kristjan Korjus (EU, 2019): Co-Founder and CTO at PactumAI.
Featured by Specter on: 2020 - Week 04.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 1,050 Days.
Description: Pactum AI helps companies to unlock value from thousands of suppliers by automatically negotiating contracts on a massive scale.
Prev. Experience: Starship Technologies, Dream It Get IT Ltd, University of Tartu, KFPD GmbH, Food 4 Thought Project Limited, Tark Investor OÜ.
Total Funding: $35.2M / $20M Latest Series A Round in 12/2022.
Notable Investors: 3VC, Atomico, Project A Ventures, Taavet+Sten, Metaplanet Holdings, Maersk Growth, NordicNinja VC, Sten Tamkivi, Ott Kaukver.
👻 Opportunity:
Ryan Bozarth (US, 2022): Co-Founder at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 46.
Prev. Experience: Coinbase, Anchorage, Airbnb, Square, Sony, We Three.
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:
Setpoint.io (US, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 32.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 122 Days.
Description: Setpoint.io develops a platform purpose-built for modern real estate transactions.
Total Funding: $43M / $43M Latest Series A Round in 12/2022.
Notable Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Spencer Rascoff, 645 Ventures, LiveOak Venture Partners, NextView Ventures, Vesta Ventures, Henry Kravis, Capital Factory, ATX Venture Partners, Fifth Wall.
👻 Opportunity:
Adriana Restrepo (EU, 2022): Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 49.
Prev. Experience: Revolut; Barclays, Vodafone, BT, Atlas Copco, BT, Accenture, Procter & Gamble, Excelsior Gama Supermercados, Universidad Simón Bolívar.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: N/A.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 12/2022.
🍒 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:
TheyDo (EU, 2015) - Specter Rank: 217 📈
Description: TheyDo is a platform for workflow management, implementation, patient journey mapping, and CX management services.
Total Funding: €14M / €12M Latest Series A Round in 12/2022.
Notable Investors: Blossom Capital, InnovationQuarter, Arches Capital, Robbert Flipsen, Des Traynor, 20VC Fund.
6 Months Growth: Web: +93%; Team: +25%; Social: +233%.
👻 Opportunity:
Novu (EU, 2021) - Specter Rank: 16 📈
Description: Novu offers open-source notification infrastructure for developers.
Total Funding: $6.6M / $6.6M Latest Seed Round in 05/2022.
Notable Investors: Crane Venture Partners, Ariel Maislos, Entrée Capital, m]x[v Capital.
3 Months Growth: Web: 972%; Team: +37%; Social: +93%.
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