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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:
Raj Parekh (US, 2021): Co-Founder and CEO at Portal Labs.
Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 50 in Stealth.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 439 Days.
Description: Portal Labs is building enterprise–grade web3 infrastructure that transforms the platforms into portals.
Prev. Experience: Visa, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), MINDBODY, Inc., ADP.
Total Funding: $5.3M / $5.3M Latest Seed Round in 02/2023.
Notable Investors: Slow Ventures, Huan Ventures, Henrique Dubugras, Chapter One Ventures, Diogo Mónica, William Hockey, Acrew Capital.
👻 Opportunity:
Edwin Ong (US, 2023): Founder at PromptJoy.
Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 09.
Description: PromptJoy is making it easy to build, deploy & monitor LLM apps.
Prev. Experience: Partner @MediumData, TinyData, Tribune Company, Co-Founder & CEO @CastTV (acquired by Tribune), Oracle Corporation, Co-Founder & CEO @FileFish Inc. (acquired by Oracle), CNET Networks, DoubleClick Inc.
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:
Attio (EU, 2019) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 36.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 177 Days.
Description: Attio is a data-driven, completely customizable and intuitively collaborative CRM.
Total Funding: $31.3M / £19.6M Latest Series A Round in 03/2023.
Notable Investors: Redpoint, Point Nine, Balderton Capital, Passion Capital, Vinay Hiremath, Headline.
👻 Opportunity:
Yuma (YC W23) (APAC, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 09.
Description: Yuma is using ChatGPT to automate customer support. It integrates directly with help desk software and focuses on helping large Shopify merchants deal with their high volume of support requests.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: Y Combinator
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 03/2023.
🍒 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:
Temporal Technologies (US, 2019) - Specter Rank: 776 📈
Description: Temporal Technologies enables its users to build and operate resilient applications using developer-friendly primitives.
Total Funding: $203.5M / $75M Latest Series B Round in 02/2023.
Notable Investors: Greenoaks, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Amplify Partners, Madrona, Addition, Kevin Mahaffey, Travis McPeak.
6 Months Growth: Web: +28%; Team: +41%; Social: +31%.
👻 Opportunity:
Diagram (US, 2022) - Specter Rank: 84 📈
Description: Diagram provides magical new ways to design products.
Total Funding: $4.1M / $4.1M Latest Seed Round in 05/2022.
Notable Investors: Nikita Bier.
3 Months Growth: Web: +382%; Team: +20%; Social: +100%.
