🔮 Talents of the Week

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

🪄 Predicted:

Sarah Wooders (US, 2024): Co-founder & CTO at Letta.

• Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 27.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 82 Days.

• Description: Letta specializes in memory management technology, enabling AI models to remember users and conversations.

• Prev. Experience: PhD Student @ Berkeley RISE Lab, CEO & Co-founder @ Glisten.ai, Software Engineering Intern @ SingleStore, Extern (Performance Optimization) @ Quantlab Group, Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Software Engineering Intern @ Bloomberg, Research Intern @ Metropia, Inc., Software Development Intern @ MobLab.

• Total Funding: $10M / $10M Latest Seed on 09-2024.

• Notable Investors: Barry McCardel, Clément Delangue, Cristobal Valenzuela Barrera, Essence VC, Felicis, Jeff Dean, Jordan Tigani, Robert Nishihara, Sunflower Capital Partners, Tristan Handy.

👻 Opportunity:

Cosmin Nicolaescu (US, 2024): Founder at Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 34.

• Prev. Experience: Advisor @ Brex, Chief Technology Officer @ Brex, Global Engineering @ Stripe, Senior Software Design Engineer @ Microsoft, Software Development Engineer Intern @ Microsoft, Application Developer Intern @ Microsoft, Network Administrator @ Drexel University.

• Total Funding: 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:

Reflect Orbital (US, 2023): Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 17.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 33 Days.

• Description: Reflect captures sunlight and brings it down to Earth using mirrors in space, powering lighting after the Sun has set.

• Total Funding: $8.7M / $6.5M Latest Seed on 09-2024.

• Notable Investors: Baiju Bhatt, Keenan Wyrobek, Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, Kevin Hartz, Nicholas Donahue, Sequoia Capital, Starship Ventures, Climate Capital.

👻 Opportunity:

Julius AI (US, 2022): Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 37.

• Description: Julius AI develops a platform that analyzes data with computational AI.

• Total Funding: $750K / $500K Latest None on 09-2022.

• Notable Investors: Y Combinator, Horizon Venture Capital, Moth Fund, AI Grant.

🍒 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:

Atlys (US, 2020): Specter Rank: 304 📈

• Description: Atlys is a travel and visa application platform that makes obtaining travel visas easy.

• Total Funding: $48.25M / $20M Latest Series B on 09-2024.

• Notable Investors: Accel, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Long Journey Ventures, MANTIS Venture Capital, South Park Commons, Ben Silbermann, Endeavor, Evan Sharp, Casey Winters, Elevation Capital, Peak XV Partners, DST Global, Headline.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: 8.65%; Team: 82.18%; Social: 73.1%.

👻 Opportunity:

Ownwell (US, 2020): Specter Rank: 267 📈

• Description: Ownwell is an online solution that helps people reduce real estate ownership costs by identifying overpaid property taxes and securing tax breaks.

• Total Funding: $7.5M / $5.75M Latest Seed on 05-2022.

• Notable Investors: Everywhere Ventures, Founder Collective, Wonder Ventures, Scott Banister, Long Journey Ventures, First Round Capital.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: 156.67%; Team: 24.24%; Social: 13.3%.