🔮 Talents of the Week

Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.

🪄 Predicted:

Peter Holt Theisen (EU, 2023): Founder at Light.

• Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 35.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 292 Days.

• Description: Light is a financial platform that offers fully automated general ledger and other accounting solution services for multinational companies.

• Prev. Experience: Accelerated Growth Lead @ Google, Country Lead @ Xoogler.co, Co-Founder @ Wallpaper Society.

• Total Funding: $13M / $13M Latest Seed on 06-2024.

• Notable Investors: Atomico, Cherry Ventures, Entrée Capital, Mario Götze, Seedcamp.

👻 Opportunity:

Edward Zhou (US, 2024): Founder at Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 20.

• Prev. Experience: Staff Software Engineer @ Notion, Software Engineer @ Pinterest, Software Engineer Intern @ SAP, Corporate Relations Executive @ StartupStorm, Android Developer Intern @ Pantoscope Media.

• 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:

Canary Technologies (US, 2017) - Featured by Specter on: 2020 - Week 36.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 1371 Days.

• Description: Canary Technologies provides hotels and other lodging properties with technology solutions to increase productivity and manage bookings.

• Total Funding: $97M / $50M Latest Series C on 06-2024.

• Notable Investors: Commerce Ventures, F-Prime Capital, Insight Partners, Thayer Ventures, Y Combinator.

👻 Opportunity:

Burkhard Reffeling (EU, 2024): Founder at Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 23.

• Prev. Experience: Competence Group Lead - Consumer Banking @ Klarna, Engineering Chapter Lead @ Sky, Lead Developer @ MadeByPi.

• Signal: Increased VC Interest in 06/2024.

🍒 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:

Findigs (US, 2018) - Specter Rank: 1010📈

• Description: Findigs offers a digital underwriting platform that makes renting safe and easy for renters and property managers.

• Total Funding: $39.7M / $27M Latest Series B on 06-2024.

• Notable Investors: Streamlined Ventures.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: 73.85%; Team: 14.75%; Social: 15.1%.

👻 Opportunity:

Sana (EU, 2016) - Specter Rank: 127📈

• Description: Sana uses machine learning to improve human learning and offers a customized learning platform for the education industry.

• Total Funding: $82M / $28M Latest Series B on 04-2023.

• Notable Investors: EQT Ventures, Leksell Social Ventures, Sven Hagströmer, R Ventures, Laurent Leksell, John Lindfors, Katarina Martinson, Acequia Capital (AceCap), Menlo Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Workday Ventures, Sophia Bendz, Joen Bonnier, Mattias Miksche, Max Ventures.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: 136.88%; Team: 18.24%; Social: 29.5%.