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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:

Ben Dixon (EU, 2021): Co-Founder & CTO at Sona.

Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 12.

Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 782 Days.

Description: Sona is a developer of a workforce management application for various industries.

Prev. Experience: Director @ Dxnx Ltd, Co-Founder & CTO @ Catapult, Founder @ Make It With Code, Co-Founder & CTO @ Style Gauge, Co-Founder & CTO @ InGuide.

Total Funding: $36.5M / $27.5M  Latest Series A on 05-2024.

Notable Investors: Antler, Bag Ventures, Felicis, Gradient Ventures, Northzone, Speedinvest.

👻 Opportunity:

Edward Hu (US, 2024): Co-Founder at Stealth Startup.

Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 14.

Prev. Experience: Researcher @ OpenAI, Researcher @ Microsoft, AI Resident @ Microsoft. 

Total Funding: N/A.

Notable Investors: N/A.

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🎱 Strategic Signals

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:

Polymarket (US, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 49.

Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 158 days.

Description: Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market.

Total Funding: $74M / $45M  Latest Series B on 05-2024.

Notable Investors: Founders Fund, Vitalik Buterin, Draper Associates, Naval Ravikant, General Catalyst.

👻 Opportunity:

Poolside (EU, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 18.

Description: Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform that offers foundation concepts and infrastructure. It aims to unlock humanity's potential by pursuing AGI for software creation.

Total Funding: $126M / $100M  Latest Seed on 08-2023.

Notable Investors: Bpifrance, Rodolphe Saadé, Felicis, Redpoint, Frst, Xavier Niel, Motier Ventures, New Wave Ventures, Eduardo Ronzano, Abstraction Capital, Air Street Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Erica Brescia, Jacob Effron.

Signal: Increased VC Interest in 05/2024.

🍒 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:

Wiz (EU, 2020) - Specter Rank: 1505📈

Description: Wiz is a cybersecurity company that allows companies to find security issues in public cloud infrastructure.

Total Funding: $1.9B / $1B  Latest Series E on 05-2024.

Notable Investors: Insight Partners, Salesforce, Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Blackstone Group, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners. 

6 Months Growth: Web: -6.74%; Team: 27.58%; Social: 27.5%.

👻 Opportunity:

Qomodo (EU, 2023) - Specter Rank: 56,513📈

Description: Qomodo is an ''all-in-one'' payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers.

Total Funding: $36.9M / $36.9M Latest Pre Seed on 11-2023.

Notable Investors: Ithaca Investments, Exor Ventures, Plug and Play, Notion Capital, Octopus Ventures, Fasanara Capital. 

6 Months Growth: Web: 455.03%; Team: 48%; Social: 10.0%.