Specter Monitor is a data-driven newsletter for investors interested in learning about the latest market trends, signals, and opportunities. Our audience includes some of the most legendary VC investors in the world. We’ll work hard to bring you actionable insights on what’s happening in today’s markets, while celebrating data-driven wins and predictions ✨
🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Jorge Lluch (EU, 2020) : Founder / CEO at Abacum
Featured by Specter on: 2020 - Week 19 (Pre YC).
Strategic Intelligence Signal: Increased VC Interest in 03-2021.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 574 Days.
Description: Abacum is a SaaS that helps finance teams deliver business insights.
Prev. Experience: Mapp4All, Jazzya Investment, Goggo Network, Overture Life, TravelPerk, Wallapop, Privalia.
Total Funding: $32M / Latest Series A in 11/2021.
Notable Investors: Y Combinator, Atomico, Creandum, K Fund, ProFounders Capital.
👻 Opportunity:
Raven Jiang (US, 2021): Founder at Arc - (YC W22)
Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 31.
Description: Arc partners with best-in-class software startups to convert future revenue into capital today.
Prev. Experience: Bain Capital Ventures, Ubiquity6 (acq. by Discord), Facebook, Tesla, Affinity, Dropbox.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: Bain Capital Ventures, Y Combinator, NFX, Clocktower Technology Ventures.
🎱 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:
Raycast (EU, 2019) - Featured by Specter on: 2020-05-13.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 566 Days.
Description: Raycast is a developer of a command bar software intended to assist developers to control their tools.
Total Funding: $17.6M / Latest Series A in 11/2021.
Notable Investors: Y Combinator, Accel, Coatue, Chapter One Ventures.
👻 Opportunity:
Kubelt (Canada, 2021) - (YC W22)
Featured by Specter on: 2021-12-03.
Description: Kubelt is a web3 content management platform.
Total Funding: N/A.
Notable Investors: N/A.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 12-2021.
🍒 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:
Volt (EU, 2019) - Specter Rank: 288 📈
Description: Volt is a technology developer and real-time payments orchestrator to scale merchant organisations and payment service providers
Total Funding: $27.8M / Latest Series A in 6/2021.
Notable Investors: EQT Ventures, Fuel Ventures, Augmentum Fintech.
6 Months Growth: Team: +69%; Web: +208%; Social: +47%
👻 Opportunity:
Joe (EU, 2020) - Specter Rank: 36,406 📈 - (YC W22)
Description: Joe is a financial service that reimburses and allows all expenses to be paid in several instalments.
Total Funding: $1M / Last Seed in 4/2021.
Notable Investors: David Barbe, Salomon Aiach, Guillaume Lestrade, Jean-Baptiste Hironde, David Amsellem, Jean-Marc Bouhelier.
6 Months Growth: Team: +7%; Web: +3,842%; Social: +58%
That’s all for this edition of Specter Monitor!
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