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:
Brian S Raymond (US, 2022): Founder/CEO at Unstructed Technologies.
Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 40.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 287 Days.
Description: Unstructured Technologies transforms natural language data from raw to machine learning-ready.
Prev. Experience: Primer.ai, Harris Williams & Co., The White House, Central Intelligence Agency.
Total Funding: $25M / $25M Latest Series A Round in 07/2023.
Notable Investors: Madrona, Bain Capital Ventures, Shield Capital, Harrison Chase, MongoDB Ventures, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Bob van Luijt, Mango Capital, Josh Lefkowitz.
👻 Opportunity:
Maxwell Hayman (US, 2023): Co-Founder at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 29.
Prev. Experience: Slack, Co-Founder @Rimeto (acquired by Slack), Facebook, Shyp, Store Vantage, Groupon, The Boston Consulting Group.
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:
Sylvera (EU, 2020) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 42.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 275 Days.
Description: Sylvera develops machine learning-based tools to track the performance of carbon offsets.
Total Funding: $95.5M / €50.6M Latest Series B Round in 07/2023.
Notable Investors: Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, Seedcamp, Bain & Company, 9Yards Capital, Speedinvest, LocalGlobe.
👻 Opportunity:
GLASS Imaging (US, 2019) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 29.
Description: GLASS Imaging is replacing optical elements with deep neural networks that give extreme flexibility when designing cameras allowing to squeeze a huge sensor into an ultra-thin module.
Total Funding: $2.2M / $2.2M Latest Seed Round in 03/2022.
Notable Investors: LDV Capital.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 07/2023.
🍒 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:
PVCase (EU, 2017) - Specter Rank: 593 📈
Description: PVcase is a photovoltaic computer-aided solar engineering company.
Total Funding: $124.2M / Latest €89M Series B Round in 07/2023.
Notable Investors: Energize Ventures, Highland Europe, Elephant, Contrarian Ventures, Practica Capital, EIT Climate-KIC.
6 Months Growth: Web: +71%; Team: +26%; Social: +61%.
👻 Opportunity:
Twelve Labs (US, 2021) - Specter Rank: 72 📈
Description: Twelve Labs is making video foundation models accessible via APIs to empower businesses and developers to build intelligent video products.
Total Funding: $17.1M / $12M Latest Seed Round in 12/2022.
Notable Investors: Radical Ventures, Index Ventures, Techstars, Kyle Parrish, Jonathan Rosenbluth, Lukas Biewald, Nicolas Dessaigne, Oliver Cameron, WndrCo, Jay Simons, Spring Ventures.
6 Months Growth: Web: +12,853%; Team: +43%; Social: +156%.
