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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:
Aran Brown (EU, 2022): CEO and Co-Founder at Paytrix.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 24.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 286 Days.
Description: Paytrix provides payment and banking infrastructure for software companies.
Prev. Experience: Moneycorp, Yapstone, Ixaris, Hyperwallet, FC Exchange, Skrill, Western Union Business Solutions.
Total Funding: $24M / $18.3M Series A Round in 03/2023.
Notable Investors: Bain Capital Ventures, Motive Partners, Unusual Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Hambro Perks Ltd., D4 Ventures, The Fintech Fund, Fin Capital, Clocktower Technology Ventures.
👻 Opportunity:
Raja Koduri (US, 2023): Founder at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 13.
Prev. Experience: Intel Corporation, Makuta VFX, AMD, Apple, S3 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:
Character.AI (US, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 05.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 51 Days.
Description: Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications that let users create characters and converse with them.
Total Funding: $150M / $150M Latest Series A Round in 03/2023.
Notable Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, A.Capital Ventures, Nat Friedman, Paul Buchheit, SVA.
👻 Opportunity:
Fiberplane (EU, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 13.
Description: Fiberplane is a collaborative notebook for resolving incidents.
Total Funding: €7.5M / €7.5M Latest Seed Round in 09/2021.
Notable Investors: Crane Venture Partners, Notion Capital, Northzone, base case capital, System.One.
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:
Amogy (US, 2021) - Specter Rank: 639 📈
Description: Amogy offers an innovative clean energy system using ammonia as a renewable fuel.
Total Funding: $208.3M / $139.2M Latest Series B Round in 03/2023.
Notable Investors: SK Innovation, Aramco Ventures, Zeon Ventures, DCVC, Yanmar Ventures, Korea Zinc, AP Ventures, Temasek Holdings, MOL PLUS, Newlab.
6 Months Growth: Web: +588%; Team: +38%; Social: +62%.
👻 Opportunity:
Beehiiv (US, 2021) - Specter Rank: 54 📈
Description: beehiiv is the publishing and newsletter platform built by creators for creators.
Total Funding: $4.2M / $1.6M Latest Seed Round in 09/2022.
Notable Investors: Blue Wire Capital, Creator Ventures, Social Leverage, Codie Sanchez, Shaan Puri, Anthony Zaccaria, Alex Lieberman, Ankur Nagpal, David Perell, Scott Galloway.
6 Months Growth: Web: +588%; Team: +428%; Social: +156%.
