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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:
Daniel Loreto (US, 2020): Co-Founder at jetpack.io.
Featured by Specter on: 2020 - Week 26.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 957 Days.
Description: Jetpack is a technology agency that transforms python code into a scalable cloud backend.
Prev. Experience: VP of Engineering @ Virta HealthVirta, Head of Engineering @ Airbnb, Engineering Site Lead @ Twitter, Senior Software Engineer @ Google, Researcher @ MIT.
Total Funding: $10M / $10M Latest Seed Round in 02/2023.
Notable Investors: GV, Coatue.
👻 Opportunity:
Josh Lessing (US, 2022): Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 06.
Description: N/A.
Prev. Experience: CTO @ AppHarvest, Co-Founder & CEO @ Root AI, Director of R&D @ Soft Robotics Inc., Postdoctoral Fellow @ Harvard University, Doctoral Research Assistant @ MIT, Postbaccalaureate Research Associate @ Brown University.
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:
Recurrency (US, 2018) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 15.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 301 Days.
Description: Recurrency is an artificial intelligence extension for your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that grows revenue, margin, and customer loyalty with a one-click integration..
Total Funding: $22M / $22.1M Latest Series A Round in 02/2023.
Notable Investors: TQ Ventures, Lachy Groom, Operator Partners, Elad Gil, Bessemer Venture Partners, SV Angel, Y Combinator.
👻 Opportunity:
Humanloop (EU, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 06.
Description: Humanloop is the data-centric platform for NLP.
Total Funding: $2.6M / $2.7M Seed Round in 07/2022.
Notable Investors: UCL Technology Fund, Index Ventures, Y Combinator.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 02/2023.
🍒 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:
Upwardli (US, 2020) - Specter Rank: 859 📈
Description: Upwardli is a technology-based financial services agency that helps with credit services.
Total Funding: $2.9M / $2.9M Latest Series A Round in 02/2023.
Notable Investors: Avesta Fund, J4.Ventures, Temerity Capital Partners, Cascade Seed Fund, Dundee Venture Capital, Service Provider Capital, Techstars.
6 Months Growth: Web: +118%; Team: +80%; Social: +29%.
👻 Opportunity:
LiveFlow (EU, 2020) - Specter Rank: 391 📈
Description: LiveFlow helps automate financial workflows, consolidate accounts, and collaborate in real-time.
Total Funding: $3.5M / $4M Seed Round in 12/2021.
Notable Investors: Constantin Bisanz, Ari Helgason, Bjarke Staun-Olsen, Futuristic.vc, Johan Lorenzen, Phillip Chambers, Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen, Victor Jacobsson, Moonfire Ventures, Oleg Tscheltzoff, Oliver Jung, Bradley Horowitz, WndrCo, Seedcamp, Y Combinator.
6 Months Growth: Web: +112%; Team: +63%; Social: +45%.
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