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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:
Ron Oren (EU, 2020): Co-Founder at ImagenAI
Featured by Specter on: 2020 - Week 43.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 787 Days.
Description: AI-powered photo editing solution for Adobe Lightroom Classic that learns your personal style and saves you time.
Prev. Experience: SparkBeyond, daata.co, Sisense, Sitting Bull.
Total Funding: $30M / $34M Latest Series A Round in 12/2022.
Notable Investors: NFX, Summit Partners.
👻 Opportunity:
Mathis Büchi Ginzbourg (EU, 2022): Founder and CEO at Genova.ai.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 51.
Prev. Experience: Co-Founder & ChairmanCo @ Taxfix, Co-Founder & ChairmanCo @ Smallpdf, Encounter Korea.
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:
Robco (EU, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 33.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 115 Days.
Description: Robco – The Robot Company develops modular industrial robots designed to help companies automate their production.
Total Funding: $15M / $18.5M Latest Series A Round in 12/2022.
Notable Investors: Sequoia Capital, Promus Ventures, Kindred Capital, Freigeist Capital, Daniel Dines, Interface Capital, Torsten Reil.
👻 Opportunity:
Perplexity AI (US, 2022) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 51.
Description: Perplexity AI offers AI search tools powered by large language models (OpenAI API) and search engines.
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:
Battery Smart (AS, 2019) - Specter Rank: 14 📈
Description: Battery Smart is an EV battery-swapping network providing Li-ion batteries on a pay-per-use basis for the drivers of three-wheeled electric rickshaws via an asset-light network of partner swap stations.
Total Funding: Undisclosed Amount / $31.6M Latest Debt Financing Round in 12/2022.
Notable Investors: BlackSoil, Tiger Global Management, Catalyst Trustee, Orios Venture Partners, Blume Ventures, Green Frontier Capital, Niraj Singh, Baring Private Equity India, Srinivas Anumolu, TradeCred, K Ganesh, Faad Network, Shish Kharesiya.
6 Months Growth: Web: +1341.87%; Team: +107.35%; Social: 70.713%.
👻 Opportunity:
Obviously AI (US, 2019) - Specter Rank: 2,585 📈
Description: Obviously AI is a tool for business analysts and product teams to rapidly run predictions on historical data.
Total Funding: $3.7M / $4.6M Latest Seed Round in 05/2022.
Notable Investors: UTEC, Arka Venture Labs, Sanjay Nath, TMV, Tempo Ventures, Ramakant Sharma, Makerpad, Golden Gate Ventures, Meta, B Capital Group, iSeed, Sequoia Capital (SSF), Kevin Moore, Untapped Capital, SkyDeck Berkeley.
3 Months Growth: Web: +30.54%; Team: +0%; Social: +35%.
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