🔮 Talents of the Week

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

🪄 Predicted:

Burkay Gur (US, 2021): Founder @ Fal.ai.

• Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 22.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 1209 Days.

• Description: Fal is a Python cloud that runs dbt projects for machine learning models.

• Prev. Experience: Machine Learning Platform @ Coinbase, Senior Software Engineer @ Oracle.

• Total Funding: $23M / $14M Latest Series A on 09-2024.

• Notable Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Aravind Srinivas, Balaji Srinivasan, First Round Capital, Guillermo Rauch, Julien Chaumond, Kindred Ventures.

👻 Opportunity:

Pankaj Gupta (US, 2024): Founder @ Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 30.

• Prev. Experience: Advisor @ Coinbase, Vice President Of Engineering @ Coinbase, Senior Director Of Engineering @ Google, Founder and CEO @ Halli Labs / Agara Labs (Acquired), Chief Product and Technology Officer @ Stayzilla, Co-founder and Managing Member @ Specialized Types, (Informal) EIR @ Kleiner Perkins, Sr. Staff ML Engineer @ Twitter, Cofounder and CEO @ Phulki Inc. (Acquired), Principal Architect and MTS @ Netlogic Microsystems Inc., Principal Architect and MTS @ Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer @ Sahasra Networks Inc. (Acquired), Research Assistant / PhD student @ Stanford 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:

Mercor (US, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 34.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 85 Days.

• Description: Mercor is an AI-based hiring platform designed to improve the recruitment process for job seekers and companies.

• Total Funding: $33.6M / $30M Latest Series A on 09-2024.

• Notable Investors: Adam D’Angelo, Benchmark, Chris Re, General Catalyst, Jack Dorsey, Larry Summers, Peter Thiel.

👻 Opportunity:

Theseus (US, 2024) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 37.

• Description: Theseus provides a self-contained Visual Navigation System (VNS) that retrofits onto drones to offer GPS-like functionality using cameras and an accelerometer/gyroscope.

• Total Funding: $500K / $500K Latest Pre-Seed on 06-2024.

• Notable Investors: Y Combinator.

• 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:

Akur8 (US, 2018) - Specter Rank: 69,904 📈

• Description: Akur8 is a developer of an AI-driven insurance pricing platform designed to provide pricing automation and optimization for insurance carriers.

• Total Funding: $186.9M / $120M Latest Series C on 09-2024.

• Notable Investors: BlackFin Capital Partners, Guidewire Software, FinTLV Ventures, One Peak, Partners Group, Hedosophia, MTech Capital.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: -49.5%; Team: 13.68%; Social: 5.0%.

👻 Opportunity:

MK1 (US, 2022) - Specter Rank: 1,506,993 📈

• Description: MK1 is developing an AI computing engine designed to reduce inference costs.

• Total Funding: Undisclosed / Undisclosed Latest Venture Round on 11-2023.

• Notable Investors: Ascent Equity Partners, Interface Capital, Rsquared, Susa Ventures.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: -58.75%; Team: 12%; Social: 15.5%.