🔮 Talents of the Week

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

🪄 Predicted:

Nicolas Kopp (US, 2021): Co-Founder at Rillet.

• Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 20.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 803 Days.

• Description: Rillet develops accounting software to support financial management for high-growth companies.

• Prev. Experience: U.S. CEO @ N26, Head of Business Development & Operations @ N26, Investment Banking Division @ Morgan Stanley, Financial Advisory @ Lazard, Securities Division @ Goldman Sachs.

• Total Funding: $13.5M / $13.5M, Latest Venture Round on 07-2024.

• Notable Investors: Creandum, First Round Capital, Kevin Hartz, Susa Ventures.

👻 Opportunity:

Jonathan Unikowski (US, 2024): Founder at Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 02.

• Prev. Experience: Product Engineering @ Replit, VP of Engineering @ Berbix (now part of Socure), Software Engineer @ Berbix, Founder @ Lexloci Inc.

• 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:

Faye (EU, 2019) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 15.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 194 Days.

• Description: Faye is a travel insurance company that offers person-first travel insurance and assistance.

• Total Funding: $49M / $31M, Latest Series B on 07-2024.

• Notable Investors: F2 Capital, Lumir Ventures, Munich Re Ventures, Omri Casspi, Mike Nelson, Viola Ventures, Portage Ventures, Google for Startups, Global Founders Capital, Menora Tech.

👻 Opportunity:

SICS AI (EU, 2022) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 25.

• Description: Superintelligence Computing Systems is building a hardware agnostic digital brain for industrial automation.

• Total Funding: N/A.

• Notable Investors: N/A.

• 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:

Lakera AI (EU, 2021) - Specter Rank: 2,884📈

• Description: Lakera enables enterprises to focus on building the most exciting AI applications securely by protecting them in the world of AI cyber risk.

• Total Funding: $30M / $20M, Latest Seed on 07-2024.

• Notable Investors: Atomico, Fly Ventures, Inovia Capital, Redalpine, Dropbox Ventures, Citi Ventures.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: 40.71%; Team: 50.0%; Social: 27.6%.

👻 Opportunity:

Frontier Machines (EU, 2024) - Specter Rank: 150,215📈

• Description: Frontier Machines is building the next generation robotics platform.

• Total Funding: N/A.

• Notable Investors: N/A.

• 3 Months Growth: Web: N/A%; Team: N/A%; Social: N/A%.