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Specter Monitor #146 🎩
Specter Monitor #146 🎩
Sep 18, 2024
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Specter Monitor
🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Marty Ringlein (US, 2024): CEO & Co-Founder @ Agree.com.
Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 23.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 96 Days.
Description: Agree.com offers AI-powered workflows for e-signatures, automated invoicing, and integrated payments.
Prev. Experience: Adjunct Professor @ Northwestern University, Advisor & Investor @ Clover Software Inc. (Acquired), Senior Director, Product @ Brex, Advisor & Investor @ Capbase (Acquired), Co-founder & Chief Product Officer @ Gather (Acquired), Global Head of R&D @ Eventbrite, Investment Advisory Board @ DC Government, Investor & Board Member @ Macaw (Acquired), CEO & Co-founder @ nvite (Acquired), Presidential Innovation Fellow @ White House Presidential Innovation Fellows, General Partner @ Adventure Fund, General Manager @ Twitter, CEO & Co-founder @ Canvas Co/work (Acquired), Adjunct Faculty @ Boston University, Adjunct Faculty @ Maryland Institute College of Art, CEO & Co-Founder @ nclud LLC (Acquired), Art Director @ The Motley Fool, Creative Director @ Cygnus Business Media, Interactive Web Designer @ Discovery Inc.
Total Funding: $3M / $3M Latest Pre-Seed on 09-2024.
Notable Investors: 8-Bit Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Everywhere Ventures, Expedite Ventures, Firsthand Alliance, Hustle Fund, New Enterprise Associates, Singh Capital Partners, Trust Fund.
👻 Opportunity:
Patrick Samy (US, 2024): Founder @ Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 18.
Prev. Experience: Director of Product @ Eight Sleep, Fellow @ On Deck, Co-founder & CEO @ Span (Acquired), Product Associate @ Techstars, Software Engineer @ Microsoft, Lecturer @ École pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées, Software Engineer @ Qosmos, Research Fellow @ Stanford University, Teacher Assistant @ École pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées, Software Engineering Intern @ Tuenti, Software Engineering Intern @ Tharsis Software.
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:
Candid Health (US, 2019) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 35.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 131 Days.
Description: Candid Health is a revenue cycle automation platform that simplifies medical billing processes for healthcare providers.
Total Funding: $47.3M / $29M Latest Series B on 09-2024.
Notable Investors: 8VC, BoxGroup, First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Cristina Cordova, Snowpoint Ventures.
👻 Opportunity:
Radiant AI (US, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 34.
Description: N/A.
Total Funding: $3.5M / N/A Latest None on 2024-04-04.
Notable Investors: Plug and Play Tech Center, BoxGroup, Crosstimbers Capital Group, Definition, Forward Deployed VC.
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:
11x (EU, 2023) - Specter Rank: 249,497📈
Description: 11x is an AI and Automation company that builds autonomous digital workers.
Total Funding: $26M / $24M Latest Pre-Seed on 09-2024.
Notable Investors: Mandeep Singh, Kintxo Cortés, Project A Ventures, No Label Ventures, Felipe Navio, Tiny Ventures.
6 Months Growth: Web: 204.18%; Team: 75.0%; Social: 39.8%.
👻 Opportunity:
Thndr (MENA, 2020) - Specter Rank: 5📈
Description: Thndr is a financial services company that operates an app-based investment platform
Total Funding: $21.325M / $20M Latest Series A on 02-2022.
Notable Investors: Endure Capital, Raba Partnership, 4DX Ventures, Y Combinator, MSA Novo, A'Z Angels, Omar Darwazah, Global Ventures, Base Capital, Prosus Ventures, Jameel Investment Management Company, Tiger Global Management, BECO Capital, Firstminute Capital, Base Capital Partners.
6 Months Growth: Web: 45.62%; Team: 21.88%; Social: 13.7%.
🔮 Talents of the Week
Specter tracks real-time top talents movements across the world to detect actionable investment opportunities before anyone else.
🪄 Predicted:
Marty Ringlein (US, 2024): CEO & Co-Founder @ Agree.com.
Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 23.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 96 Days.
Description: Agree.com offers AI-powered workflows for e-signatures, automated invoicing, and integrated payments.
Prev. Experience: Adjunct Professor @ Northwestern University, Advisor & Investor @ Clover Software Inc. (Acquired), Senior Director, Product @ Brex, Advisor & Investor @ Capbase (Acquired), Co-founder & Chief Product Officer @ Gather (Acquired), Global Head of R&D @ Eventbrite, Investment Advisory Board @ DC Government, Investor & Board Member @ Macaw (Acquired), CEO & Co-founder @ nvite (Acquired), Presidential Innovation Fellow @ White House Presidential Innovation Fellows, General Partner @ Adventure Fund, General Manager @ Twitter, CEO & Co-founder @ Canvas Co/work (Acquired), Adjunct Faculty @ Boston University, Adjunct Faculty @ Maryland Institute College of Art, CEO & Co-Founder @ nclud LLC (Acquired), Art Director @ The Motley Fool, Creative Director @ Cygnus Business Media, Interactive Web Designer @ Discovery Inc.
Total Funding: $3M / $3M Latest Pre-Seed on 09-2024.
Notable Investors: 8-Bit Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Everywhere Ventures, Expedite Ventures, Firsthand Alliance, Hustle Fund, New Enterprise Associates, Singh Capital Partners, Trust Fund.
👻 Opportunity:
Patrick Samy (US, 2024): Founder @ Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 18.
Prev. Experience: Director of Product @ Eight Sleep, Fellow @ On Deck, Co-founder & CEO @ Span (Acquired), Product Associate @ Techstars, Software Engineer @ Microsoft, Lecturer @ École pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées, Software Engineer @ Qosmos, Research Fellow @ Stanford University, Teacher Assistant @ École pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées, Software Engineering Intern @ Tuenti, Software Engineering Intern @ Tharsis Software.
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:
Candid Health (US, 2019) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 35.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 131 Days.
Description: Candid Health is a revenue cycle automation platform that simplifies medical billing processes for healthcare providers.
Total Funding: $47.3M / $29M Latest Series B on 09-2024.
Notable Investors: 8VC, BoxGroup, First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Cristina Cordova, Snowpoint Ventures.
👻 Opportunity:
Radiant AI (US, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 34.
Description: N/A.
Total Funding: $3.5M / N/A Latest None on 2024-04-04.
Notable Investors: Plug and Play Tech Center, BoxGroup, Crosstimbers Capital Group, Definition, Forward Deployed VC.
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:
11x (EU, 2023) - Specter Rank: 249,497📈
Description: 11x is an AI and Automation company that builds autonomous digital workers.
Total Funding: $26M / $24M Latest Pre-Seed on 09-2024.
Notable Investors: Mandeep Singh, Kintxo Cortés, Project A Ventures, No Label Ventures, Felipe Navio, Tiny Ventures.
6 Months Growth: Web: 204.18%; Team: 75.0%; Social: 39.8%.
👻 Opportunity:
Thndr (MENA, 2020) - Specter Rank: 5📈
Description: Thndr is a financial services company that operates an app-based investment platform
Total Funding: $21.325M / $20M Latest Series A on 02-2022.
Notable Investors: Endure Capital, Raba Partnership, 4DX Ventures, Y Combinator, MSA Novo, A'Z Angels, Omar Darwazah, Global Ventures, Base Capital, Prosus Ventures, Jameel Investment Management Company, Tiger Global Management, BECO Capital, Firstminute Capital, Base Capital Partners.
6 Months Growth: Web: 45.62%; Team: 21.88%; Social: 13.7%.
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Specter Monitor
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Specter empowers next generation businesses with data-driven insights.