🔮 Talents of the Week

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

🪄 Predicted:

Kyle Galbraith (US, 2022): Co-Founder at Depot.

• Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 19.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 838 Days.

• Description: Depot is a cloud-based Docker image development service that provides managed persistent cache and native multi-architecture compatibility.

• Previous Experience: Staff Platform Engineer @ Era Software, Staff Software Engineer @ Thorn, Software Engineering Manager @ Zapproved.

• Total Funding: $5.9M / $4.1M Latest Seed on 08-2024.

• Notable Investors: Aviso Ventures, Felicis, Tokyo Black, Y Combinator.

👻 Opportunity:

Ash Edwards (EU, 2024): Founder at Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 33.

• Previous Experience: Tech Lead @ Palantir Technologies, Forward Deployed Engineer @ Palantir Technologies, Software Engineer @ Dapi, Co-Founder @ Jagged, Data Science Intern @ Mews, Software Engineer @ Endava.

• 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:

AstroForge (US, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 14.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 5 Days.

• Description: AstroForge is an asteroid mining company that extracts gold and other minerals from asteroids.

• Total Funding: $53M / $40M Latest Series A on 08-2024.

• Notable Investors: 468 Capital, Caladan Capital, Day One Ventures, Initialized Capital, Jed McCaleb, Liquid 2 Ventures, Nova Threshold, Saturnin Pugnet, Seven Seven Six, Soma Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Vishal Rao, BBQ Capital, Wayfinder Ventures, Aera VC, Undeterred Capital, David Hodge, Earthrise Ventures.

👻 Opportunity:

Codemod (US, 2022) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 30.

• Description: Codemod is an evolution platform that enables developers to automate tedious code transformations and dependency upgrades, mass refactoring and migration projects for codebases.

• Total Funding: Undisclosed Amount / Undisclosed Amount Latest Seed on 07-2023.

• Notable Investors: Elias Manousos, Quinn Slack, Adam Frankl, Matt Biilmann, Chris Bach, Martin Basiri, Peer Richelsen, Colin Sidoti, Isaac Evans, Babak Pahlavan, Ali Basiri, Vercel AI Accelerator.

• 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:

Eppo (US, 2021) - Specter Rank: 9,752 📈

• Description: Eppo is an AB experimentation platform that enables companies to scale product-led growth strategies without scaling headcount.

• Total Funding: $47.5M / $28M Latest Series B on 08-2024.

• Notable Investors: Menlo Ventures, Amplify Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Icon Ventures.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: -7.8%; Team: 60.53%; Social: 15.9%.

👻 Opportunity:

Shortwave (US, 2020) - Specter Rank: 17,755 📈

• Description: Shortwave is reinventing email to work smarter and faster.

• Total Funding: $9M / $9M Latest Series A on 04-2020.

• Notable Investors: Afore Capital, Aleem Mawani, Charles Hazard, Flybridge Capital Partners, Ilya Volodarsky, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures, Immad Akhund, Oliver Cameron, Peter Reinhardt.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: 51.55%; Team: 0.0%; Social: 15.5%.