🔮 Talents of the Week

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

🪄 Predicted:

Omer Goldberg (US, 2021): Founder & CEO at Chaos Labs.

• Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 32.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 1104 Days.

• Description: Chaos Labs is a cloud platform that allows teams to build high-fidelity agent and scenario-based simulations on mainnet forks.

• Previous Experience: Tech Lead @ Instagram, Tech Lead @ Facebook.

• Total Funding: $75M / $55M Latest Series A on 08-2024.

• Notable Investors: Anatoly Yakovenko, Anton Katz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Coinbase, F-Prime Capital, Francesco Agosti, Galaxy Digital, General Catalyst, Haun Ventures, Kevin Weil, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Michael Shaulov, PayPal Ventures, Slow Ventures, The Spartan Group, Wintermute Ventures.

👻 Opportunity:

Michael Manapat (US, 2024): Co-Founder at Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 32.

• Previous Experience: Chief Product and Technology Officer @ Notion, Head of Engineering @ Notion, Head of Applied Machine Learning @ Stripe, Software Engineer @ Google, Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Mathematics @ Harvard University.

• Total Funding: N/A.

• Notable Investors: N/A.

🎱 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:

Nunu AI (US, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 29.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 5 Days.

• Description: Nunu AI is at the frontier of artificial intelligence in gaming, creating the first multi-modal AI agents designed to test and play any game.

• Total Funding: $2M / $2M Latest Pre-Seed on 08-2024.

• Notable Investors: A16Z GAMES, Speedrun, Boost VC, Y Combinator, Earthling VC, Wingman Campus Fund.

👻 Opportunity:

Invisibility (US, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 32.

• Description: Invisibility is an AI lab building agentic systems trained to operate any machine like a human.

• Total Funding: N/A.

• Notable Investors: N/A.

• Signal: Increased VC Interest in 08-2024.

🍒 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:

Encord (EU, 2020) - Specter Rank: 44,225 📈

• Description: Encord is a machine learning company that offers tools and infrastructure to help clients get their models into production faster.

• Total Funding: $50M / $30M Latest Series B on 08-2024.

• Notable Investors: Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, Harvard Management Company, Crane Venture Partners, WndrCo, Des Traynor, CRV, Harpoon, Next47.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: 20.97%; Team: 17.54%; Social: 23.2%.

👻 Opportunity:

Metalware (US, 2023) - Specter Rank: 2,109,207 📈

• Description: Metalware is building a copilot to automate low-level programming and bring-up embedded systems 10x faster.

• Total Funding: $500K / $500K Latest Pre-Seed on 09-2023.

• Notable Investors: Y Combinator.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: -92.5%; Team: 200.0%; Social: 109.1%.