🔮 Talents of the Week

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

🪄 Predicted:

Rob Cheung (US, 2023): Co-founder at Substrate.

• Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 45.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 229 Days.

• Description: Elegant, performant APIs for ML.

• Prev. Experience: Founder Fellow @ South Park Commons, CTO @ Smalltalk, Founding Engineer @ Substack, Founding Engineer @ Fin Assistant, Engineer - Android Lead @ Venmo, Intern @ National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

• Total Funding: $8M / $8M Latest Seed on 06-2024.

• Notable Investors: Craft Ventures, Guillermo Rauch, Immad Akhund, Lightspeed Venture Partners, South Park Commons, Will Gaybrick.

👻 Opportunity:

Maor Goldberg (US, 2024): Founder at Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 21.

• Prev. Experience: Security Product Management VP @ Sysdig, Co-Founder @ Apolicy (Acquired by Sysdig), Business Development Director @ SailPoint, Co-Founder @ Whitebox Security (Acquired by SailPoint), Head of Security @ IDF - Mamram.

• 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:

Poolside (EU, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 15.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 64 Days.

• Description: Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform that offers foundation concepts and infrastructure.

• Total Funding: $526M / $400M Latest Private Equity on 06-2024.

• Notable Investors: Bain Capital Ventures, DST Global, Eduardo Ronzano, New Wave Ventures, Rodolphe Saadé, Frst, Motier Ventures, Felicis, Bpifrance, Redpoint, Xavier Niel, Abstraction Capital, Air Street Capital.

👻 Opportunity:

Storia AI (US, 2022) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 24.

• Description: Storia AI provides a creative assistant to facilitate quick and enjoyable video production.

• Total Funding: $250K / $250K Latest Pre Seed Round on 04-2023.

• Notable Investors: Madrona Venture Labs, Ovtr, AWS Startups, Shake and Bake Productions.

• 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:

GrayMatter Robotics (US, 2020) - Specter Rank: 10024📈

• Description: GrayMatter Robotics creates AI-brains for robots to assist humans in tedious and ergonomically challenging tasks.

• Total Funding: $70.4M / $45M Latest Series B on 06-2024.

• Notable Investors: Wellington Management, Calibrate Ventures, Pathbreaker Ventures, OCA Ventures, Stage Venture Partners, Swift Ventures, Bow Capital, 3M New Ventures, B Capital, National Science Foundation.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: 9.54%; Team: 19.67%; Social: 19.8%..

👻 Opportunity:

Descope (US, 2022) - Specter Rank: 8715📈

• Description: Descope enables any developer to create secure, frictionless authentication and user journeys.

• Total Funding: $53M / $53M Latest Seed on 02-2023.

• Notable Investors: Assaf Rappaport, Cerca Partners, TechAviv, Lightspeed Venture Partners, John W. Thompson, Silicon Valley CISO Investments, Dell Technologies Capital, GGV Capital, Bipul Sinha, J Ventures, Unusual Ventures, George Kurtz, Notable Capital.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: 24.62%; Team: 38.46%; Social: 22.6%.