🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Jeremy Hermann (US, 2022): Co-Founder at Delphina.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 35 as Stealth Signal.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 468 Days.
Description: Delphina eliminates repetitive productionization tasks and speeds up data science teams' ability to automate hard routine tasks.
Prev. Experience: Sequoia Capital, Costanoa Ventures, Co-Founder @Tecton, Uber, Hearsay Systems, ZangZing, Symantec, Vontu, TIBCO
Total Funding: $7.5M / $7.5M Latest Seed Round on 12/2023.
Notable Investors: Costanoa Ventures, Radical Ventures, Fei-Fei Li.
Also featured as a Talent Opportunity in Specter Monitor #43
👻 Opportunity:
James Summerfield (EU, 2023): Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 50.
Prev. Experience: Stripe, Google, Rangespan (acquired by Google), Co-Founder @Quicksort (acquired), UBS.
🎱 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:
Lolli (US, 2018) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 48.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 379 Days.
Description: Lolli is a rewards app that allows users to earn Bitcoin when shopping online.
Total Funding: $28.3M / $8M Latest Series B Round in 12/2023.
Notable Investors: BITKRAFT Ventures, Acrew Capital, Pathfinder, Version One Ventures, Night Ventures, Serena Ventures, Logan Paul, Seven Seven Six, Company Ventures, MZ Web3 Fund, Bain Capital Ventures, Animal Capital.
👻 Opportunity:
Mahesh Sathiamoorthy (US, 2023): Co-Founder at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 50.
Prev. Experience: Google DeepMind, Google, Turn, Symantec, General Motors Research & Development, University of Southern California, Nanyang Technological University.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 12/2023.
🍒 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:
Featureform (US, 2019) - Specter Rank: 7,826 📈
Description: Featureform specializes in developing an open-source virtual feature store.
Total Funding: $7.5M / $5.5M Latest Seed Round in 12/2023.
Notable Investors: GreatPoint Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners, Alumni Ventures, Tuesday Capital, Half Court Ventures, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund.
6 Months Growth: Web: +68%; Social: +339%.
👻 Opportunity:
Glide Apps (US, 2018) - Specter Rank: 112 📈
Description: Glide Apps can build powerful apps from spreadsheets without code, in minutes.
Total Funding: $23.8M / $20M Latest Series A Round 04/2022.
Notable Investors: Benchmark, First Round Capital, Y Combinator, SVA, Nat Friedman, First Round, Dylan Field, Idealab.
6 Months Growth: Web: 34%; Team: +26%; Social: +9%.
