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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:
Juliana Hilliard (US, 2020): Co-Founder at Parallel Bio
Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 32.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 502 Days.
Description: Parallel Bio develops tools that help in the discovery and development of immunotherapies.
Prev. Experience: System1 Biosciences, Knoblich Lab, Werner Lab.
Total Funding: $4.3M / $4.6M Latest Seed Round in 12/2022.
Notable Investors: Breakout Ventures, Jeff Dean, Refactor Capital, Y Combinator.
👻 Opportunity:
Andy Taylor (US, 2022): Founder at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 52.
Prev. Experience: Berkeley SkyDeck, Interlock Capital, VP & GM @ Credit Karma, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Approved.
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:
Gynger (US, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 36.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 112 Days.
Description: Gynger allows founders to save money, extend runway, and improve cash flow by financing their software and infrastructure spend.
Total Funding: $10M / $21.7M Latest Debt Financing Round in 12/2022.
Notable Investors: Upper90, Deciens Capital, Quiet Capital, Vine Ventures, Gradient Ventures, m]x[v Capital.
👻 Opportunity:
Tome (US, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 52.
Description: The AI-powered storytelling format for work.
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:
Tredence (US, 2013) - Specter Rank: 3,628 📈
Description: Tredence provides actionable and quantifiable analytics solutions to marketing, sales and operational teams with a wide industry focus.
Total Funding: $175M / $205M Latest Series B Round in 12/2022.
Notable Investors: Advent International, Chicago Pacific Founders.
6 Months Growth: Web: +126.7%; Team: +16.17%; Social: +63%.
👻 Opportunity:
Encord (EU, 2020) - Specter Rank: 67 📈
Description: Encord is an active learning platform for computer vision.
Total Funding: $15M / $19.6M Latest Series A Round in 10/2021.
Notable Investors: Y Combinator, CRV, WndrCo, Des Traynor, Crane Venture Partners, Harvard Management Company, Harpoon.
6 Months Growth: Web: +434%; Team: +54%; Social: +62%.
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