🔮 Talents of the Week

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

🪄 Predicted:

Benedikt von Lewinski (EU, 2020): Co-founder & CCO at allO.

• Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 48.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 593 Days.

• Description: allO is an all-in-one restaurant management system.

• Prev. Experience:  Restaurant Partnership Team Lead - South Germany @ Wolt, Participant @ BERLIN STARTUP SCHOOL, Team Lead Sales & Key Account Management @ Liefery, Senior Business Development Manager @ Deliveroo.

• Total Funding: $6.5M / $5M Latest Seed on 07-2024.

• Notable Investors: 20Growth, 20Product, Claire Hughes Johnson, Daniel Khachab, Keen Venture Partners, Mario Götze, Martin Enderle, Navid Hadzaad, Pat Cummins, The Twenty Minute VC.

👻 Opportunity:

Evan Dudla (US, 2024): CTO & Co-founder at Agree.com.

• Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 29.

• Description: Agree is an app that helps users create, send, and receive online contracts and payments.

• Prev. Experience: Infrastructure @ Brex, CTO & Co-founder @ Gather, SRE and Software Architect @ Eventbrite, Javascript Engineer @ Spotify; Founder/Creative Director @ Cofound Harlem, Co-founder (Acquired) @ nvite, CTO/Co-founder @ Let's Monitor, Front End Engineer (Acquired) @ Next Big Sound, Inc., Web-producer @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Web-Application Developer/Computer Systems Engineer @ The Warning Track.

• 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:

Command Zero (US, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 12.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 484 Days.

• Description: Command Zero is an autonomous and user-led cyber investigation platform built for Computer and Network Security.

• Total Funding: $21M / $21M Latest Seed on 07-2024.

• Notable Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, Cisco Investments.

👻 Opportunity:

Krishna (Vasanth) Namasivayam (US, 2024): Founder at Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 29.

• Prev. Experience: Director of Product Management @ Dropbox, Product Mentor @ Clicked, Product Lead, Integrity @ Facebook, Management Consultant @ PwC, Product Lead @ NVIDIA, Senior Principal @ Cadence Design Systems, Founder @ Eighteen49, Product Manager (Customer Applications) @ Synopsys Inc, Product Manager @ IDT - Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (Acquired).

• Signal: Increased VC Interest in 07/2024.

🍒 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:

tapi (LATAM, 2022) - Specter Rank: 6812📈

• Description: Tapi is a fintech firm that helps and supports companies providing simple and regional payment solutions.

• Total Funding: $31M / $22M Latest Series A on 07-2024.

• Notable Investors: H20 Capital, Newtopia VC, Kaszek, Andreessen Horowitz.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: -6.1%; Team: 9.21%; Social: 20.6%.

👻 Opportunity:

Matrices (US, 2023) - Specter Rank: 1,641,872📈

• Description: Manage a fleet of parallel AI agents to automate your business workflows, using a familiar spreadsheet interface.

• Total Funding: Undisclosed Amount Latest Grant on 02-2024.

• Notable Investors: AI Grant.

• 3 Months Growth: Web: -88.79%; Team: 50.0%; Social: 56.2%.