Specter Monitor is a data-driven newsletter for investors interested in learning about the latest market trends, signals, and opportunities. Our audience includes some of the most legendary VC investors in the world. We’ll work hard to bring you actionable insights into what’s happening in today’s markets while celebrating data-driven wins and predictions. ✨

🔮 Talents of the Week

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

🪄 Predicted:

MengKe ‘MK’ Li (US, 2021): Co-Founder at Liquido.

• Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 47.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 161 Days.

• Description: Liquido provides integrated mobile payment solutions.

• Prev. Experience: UpHonest Capital, Treasure Data, Microsoft, Google, Morgan Stanley, Apple Inc.

• Total Funding: $26M / $26M Latest Venture Round in 05/2023.

• Notable Investors: Index Ventures, Restive, Base Partners, UpHonest Capital, MANTIS Venture Capital.

👻 Opportunity:

James Radford (EU, 2023): Chief Executive Officer at Fintech Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 18.

• Prev. Experience: Chief Executive Officer @Revolut, Premium Credit Ltd, Cheque and Credit Clearing Company, Aldermore Bank PLC, Lloyds Banking Group, HBOS, Citi, American Express.

• 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:

Spread (EU, 2019) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 12.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 408 Days.

• Description: Spread is a digital engineering software developer with the goal to increase sustainability by understanding 3D data like engineers.

• Total Funding: $18.9M / $16M Latest Series A Round in 05/2023.

• Notable Investors: HV Capital, Till Reuter, Sebastian Borek, Cavalry Ventures, Dylan Field, Walter Kortschak, Charlie Songhurst, La Famiglia, Felix Jahn.

👻 Opportunity:

Create (US, 2021) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 18.

• Description: Create gives everyone the power of software creation.

• Total Funding: N/A.

• Notable Investors: Montage Ventures, precursor Ventures.

• Signal: Increased VC Interest in 05/2023.

🍒 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:

Openlayer (US, 2021) - Specter Rank: 9,908 📈

• Description: Openlayer is an analysis platform that "opens up" machine learning models by detecting and eliminating failure patterns and biases.

• Total Funding: $4.8M / $4.8M Latest Seed Round in 05/2023.

• Notable Investors: Quiet Capital, Rodrigo Schmidt, Mike Krieger, Max Mullen, Immad Akhund, Guillermo Rauch, Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Gokul Rajaram, Liquid 2 Ventures, MANTIS Venture Capital.

• 3 Months Growth: Web: +358%; Social: +14%.

👻 Opportunity:

Bento (EU, 2022) - Specter Rank: 08 📈

• Description: Bento's mission is to assist creators looking to make a career online by assisting them in identifying and expanding their audience.

• Total Funding: $1.6M / $1.6M Latest Pre-Seed Round in 02/2023.

• Notable Investors: Sequoia Arc, Nextblue, Gaingels.

• 3 Months Growth: Web: +1,724%; Team: +20%; Social: +36%.