🔮 Talents of the Week

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

🪄 Predicted:

Hahnbee Lee (US, 2021): Co-Founder @ Mintlify.

• Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 49.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 1006 Days.

• Description: Mintlify simplifies software documentation creation, maintenance, and publishing, enabling developers to focus on core work.

• Previous Experience: Technical Product Manager @ Cornell Design & Tech Initiative, Software Engineer @ Duolingo, Software Engineer @ Tribe Community Platform, Co-Founder @ pe•ple, Software Engineer @ Cornell Rocketry Team, Software Engineer @ Vera.Zone, Software Engineer @ GoodStuff, Software Engineer @ Leidos, Research Assistant @ Scriyb LLC.

• Total Funding: $21.7M / $18.5M Latest Series A on 09-2024.

• Notable Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital, Y Combinator.

👻 Opportunity:

David Singleton (US, 2024): Founder @ Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 35.

• Previous Experience: Chief Technology Officer @ Stripe, VP Engineering @ Google, Engineering Director @ Google, Engineering Manager @ Google, Technical Lead / Manager @ Google, Software Engineer @ Google, Senior Technical Consultant @ Symbian.

• 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:

Thatch (US, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 51.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 267 Days.

• Description: Thatch helps startups provide great healthcare to their teams.

• Total Funding: $44M / $38M Latest Series A on 09-2024.

• Notable Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Avid Ventures, General Catalyst, Index Ventures, SemperVirens Venture Capital, The General Partnership, BrightEdge Fund, Not Boring Capital, Google Ventures, Quiet Capital, Lux Capital, Axial.

👻 Opportunity:

Phoebe AI (EU, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 31.

• Description: Phoebe AI offers AI-powered security solutions to protect your business.

• Total Funding: N/A.

• Notable Investors: N/A.

• Signal: Increased VC Interest in 09-2024.

🍒 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:

Cortex (US, 2019) - Specter Rank: 60,239 📈

• Description: Cortex offers an internal developer portal (IDP) to improve service quality and velocity.

• Total Funding: $112.65M / $60M Latest Series C on 09-2024.

• Notable Investors: Alpha Square Group, Sequoia Capital, Scale Venture Partners, IVP, Y Combinator, Cross Creek, WiL (World Innovation Lab), Patrick Collison, John Collison, Alexandr Wang, Tiger Global Management, Gokul Rajaram, Peter McKay, Mathilde Collin, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: 72.6%; Team: 17.7%; Social: 9.6%.

👻 Opportunity:

Particular Audience (APAC, 2017) - Specter Rank: 561 📈

• Description: Particular Audience offers an AI-powered retail media platform designed to unlock new revenue through search, recommendations, and competitor price beat for eCommerce.

• Total Funding: $9.02M / Undisclosed Latest Debt Financing on 10-2023.

• Notable Investors: Lucas London, OneVentures, Carthona Capital, The Sypkes Group, Five V Capital, EVP, James Taylor.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: 536.8%; Team: 23.22%; Social: 6.5%.