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Specter Monitor #110 🛼
Specter Monitor #110 🛼
Jan 3, 2024
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Specter Monitor
🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Hazem Dawani (US, 2022): CEO & Co-Founder at Gigastar.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 16 in Stealth.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 616 Days.
Description: GigaStar is a developer of an online content creators marketplace.
Prev. Experience: CEO @ Predata (Acquired), CEO & CoFounder @ OptionsCity Software, Inc. (Acquired), Chicago Trading Company.
Total Funding: $11.1M / $3M Latest Seed Round on 12/2023.
Notable Investors: Tomsic Holdings, Belvedere Strategic Capital, Nameless Ventures, DV Chain.
👻 Opportunity:
Yingkai (Kevin) Xu (US, 2023): Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 52.
Prev. Experience: C0-Founder & CEO @ DeData (Acquired), Founder & CEO @ Onebit (Acquired), Co-Founder @ Jianwei Data (Acquired), Abakus Group, Credit Suisse.
🎱 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:
Equilibrium Energy (US, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 29.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 163 Days.
Description: Equilibrium Energy is a Climate Generation power company focused on creating and proliferating clean energy.
Total Funding: $71.7M / $38.7M Latest Venture Round in 12/2023.
Notable Investors: Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Global Founders Capital, NJP Ventures.
👻 Opportunity:
Superlist (EU, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 52.
Description: Superlist is a collaboration tool reimagining workplace productivity through technology.
Total Funding: €13.5M / €10M Latest Seed Round in 03/2022.
Notable Investors: EQT Ventures, Cherry Ventures, s16vc, Expedite Ventures.
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:
Lily AI (US, 2015) - Specter Rank: 2,729 📈
Description: Lily AI is the platform that bridges the gap between brand-speak and customer-speak to drive exponential growth for commerce companies.
Total Funding: $51.9M / $12.4M Latest Venture Round in 12/2023.
Notable Investors: Canaan Partners, Conductive Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Sorenson Ventures, Unshackled Ventures, Fernbrook Capital Management LLC, Alumni Ventures, One Way Ventures.
6 Months Growth: Web: +42%; Team: +24%; Social: +22%.
👻 Opportunity:
Zeliq (EU, 2023) - Specter Rank: 112 📈
Description: Zeliq is an all-in-one sales solution.
Total Funding: €5M / €5M Latest Pre-Seed Round 05/2023.
Notable Investors: Resonance, Pauline Boucon Duval, + BAs, OBRATORI.
6 Months Growth: Web: 2500%; Team: +60%; Social: +93%.
🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Hazem Dawani (US, 2022): CEO & Co-Founder at Gigastar.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 16 in Stealth.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 616 Days.
Description: GigaStar is a developer of an online content creators marketplace.
Prev. Experience: CEO @ Predata (Acquired), CEO & CoFounder @ OptionsCity Software, Inc. (Acquired), Chicago Trading Company.
Total Funding: $11.1M / $3M Latest Seed Round on 12/2023.
Notable Investors: Tomsic Holdings, Belvedere Strategic Capital, Nameless Ventures, DV Chain.
👻 Opportunity:
Yingkai (Kevin) Xu (US, 2023): Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 52.
Prev. Experience: C0-Founder & CEO @ DeData (Acquired), Founder & CEO @ Onebit (Acquired), Co-Founder @ Jianwei Data (Acquired), Abakus Group, Credit Suisse.
🎱 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:
Equilibrium Energy (US, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 29.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 163 Days.
Description: Equilibrium Energy is a Climate Generation power company focused on creating and proliferating clean energy.
Total Funding: $71.7M / $38.7M Latest Venture Round in 12/2023.
Notable Investors: Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Global Founders Capital, NJP Ventures.
👻 Opportunity:
Superlist (EU, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 52.
Description: Superlist is a collaboration tool reimagining workplace productivity through technology.
Total Funding: €13.5M / €10M Latest Seed Round in 03/2022.
Notable Investors: EQT Ventures, Cherry Ventures, s16vc, Expedite Ventures.
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:
Lily AI (US, 2015) - Specter Rank: 2,729 📈
Description: Lily AI is the platform that bridges the gap between brand-speak and customer-speak to drive exponential growth for commerce companies.
Total Funding: $51.9M / $12.4M Latest Venture Round in 12/2023.
Notable Investors: Canaan Partners, Conductive Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Sorenson Ventures, Unshackled Ventures, Fernbrook Capital Management LLC, Alumni Ventures, One Way Ventures.
6 Months Growth: Web: +42%; Team: +24%; Social: +22%.
👻 Opportunity:
Zeliq (EU, 2023) - Specter Rank: 112 📈
Description: Zeliq is an all-in-one sales solution.
Total Funding: €5M / €5M Latest Pre-Seed Round 05/2023.
Notable Investors: Resonance, Pauline Boucon Duval, + BAs, OBRATORI.
6 Months Growth: Web: 2500%; Team: +60%; Social: +93%.
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Specter Monitor
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