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🔮 Talents of the Week

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

🪄 Predicted:

Suman Kanuganti (US, 2020): Founder & CEO at Personal AI.

• Featured by Specter on: 2020 - Week 24.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 944 Days.

• Description: Personal.ai develops AI-based software to help users retain, reinforce, and recall human memory.

• Prev. Experience: President & Founder, Board Member @Aira, Intuit, Qualcomm, Wonderware, Caterpillar Inc., University of Missouri-Columbia.

• Total Funding: $13.7M / $7.8M Latest Seed Round in 01/2023.

• Notable Investors: Supernode Global, Differential Ventures, BBG Ventures, Anirudh Koul, Kelvin Beachum Jr., Bradley Taylor, Beni VC, Village Global, Keshif Ventures, Jane Street Capital, Sagar Chada, Good Friends.

👻 Opportunity:

JJ Raynor (US, 2022): Founder at Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 02.

• Prev. Experience: Uber, Boom Supersonic, The White House, McKinsey & Company, University of Malaya.

• Total Funding: N/A.

• Notable Investors: N/A.

🎱 Strategic Intelligence

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:

Toddle (APAC, 2019) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 36.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 124 Days.

• Description: Toddle is an education SaaS company that offers a unified platform for teachers to collaborate and track learning outcomes.

• Total Funding: $17M / $17M Latest Series A Round in 01/2023.

• Notable Investors: Sequoia Capital India, Matrix Partners India, BEENEXT, Tenacity Ventures, Trifecta Capital Advisors, Better Capital, Nataraj Sindam, Rahul Jaimini.

👻 Opportunity:

Nir Gazit (US, 2022): Chief Executive Officer at Stealth Startup (YC W23).

• Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 02.

• Prev. Experience: Novu, Grove Ventures, Fiverr, Google, ZORE, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, C4 Security, Israel Defence Forces.

• Total Funding: N/A.

• Notable Investors: Y Combinator.

• Signal: Increased VC Interest in 01/2023.

🍒 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:

Mondu (EU, 2021) - Specter Rank: 2,341 📈

• Description: Mondu enables merchants and marketplaces to offer their business customers the most popular B2B payment methods.

• Total Funding: $89.3M / €11.9M Latest Series A Round in 01/2023.

• Notable Investors: Valar Ventures, Cherry Ventures, FinTech Collective, Vereinigte Volksbank Raiffeisenbank, Discovery Ventures.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: +78%; Team: +61%; Social: +402%.

👻 Opportunity:

IronVest (US, 2021) - Specter Rank: 1,438 📈

• Description: IronVest is a security and privacy-first app designed to protect your online accounts, data, and privacy.

• Total Funding: $23M / $23M Latest Seed Round in 01/2022.

• Notable Investors: Accomplice, Ulysses, Joule Ventures, OurCrowd, Trust Ventures.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: +8787%; Team: +57%; Social: +111%.