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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:
Chris Lattner (US, 2022): CEO + Co-Founder at Modular.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 30.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 392 Days.
Description: Modular is an AI software developer platform that unifies the development and deployment of AI for everyone.
Prev. Experience: SiFive, Google, Tesla, Apple, LLVM Organization.
Total Funding: $130M / $100M Latest Series A Round in 08/2023.
Notable Investors: General Catalyst, Google Ventures, SVA, Greylock, Factory.
👻 Opportunity:
Euwyn Poon (US, 2023): Founder at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 34.
Prev. Experience: Micro, Ford Motor Company, Co-Founder @Spin - Electric Scooter Sharing (Acquired), Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.
🎱 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:
Ikigai (US, 2019) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 21.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 93 Days.
Description: Ikigai helps analysts and operations teams automate data-intensive business, finance, analytics, and supply chain operations.
Total Funding: $38.2M / $25M Latest Series A Round in 08/2023.
Notable Investors: PremjiInvest, National Science Foundation, Foundation Capital, e& capital, Underscore VC, 8VC.
👻 Opportunity:
Loops (US, 2022) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 33.
Description: Loops is a tool that provides a better way to send marketing and transactional emails.
Total Funding: $3.2M / Latest Seed Round in 01/2023.
Notable Investors: Craft Ventures, She's Independent, Arash Ferdowsi, Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Sahil Bloom, Soma Capital, BoxGroup, TwentyTwo VC, Austen Allred.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 08/2023.
🍒 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:
Apollo.io (US, 2015) - Specter Rank: 9,936 📈
Description: Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market sales platform that helps turn prospects into customers through AI-powered streamlined engagement workflows.
Total Funding: $251.3M / Latest $110M Series D Round in 08/2023.
Notable Investors: Bain Capital Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Tribe Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, NewView Capital.
6 Months Growth: Team: +146%; Social: +67%.
👻 Opportunity:
FlutterFlow (US, 2020) - Specter Rank: 364 📈
Description: FlutterFlow is a low-code, visual application development platform for native mobile and web applications.
Notable Investors: Locus Ventures, Ben Tossell, Y Combinator, Open Opportunity Fund, The MBA Fund, Gradient Ventures, Manik Gupta, Lombardstreet Ventures, Ankit Jain.
6 Months Growth: Web: +51%; Team: 97%; Social: +72%.
