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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:
Gian Maria Gramondi (US, 2021): Co-Founder at Shop Circle.
Featured by Specter on: 2021 - Week 24 as Stealth.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 817 Days.
Description: Shop Circle is a technology company that acquires and grows e-commerce software.
Prev. Experience: Bain & Company, PwC, UniCredit, Deloitte, Category Manager @ Amazon.
Total Funding: $185M / $120M Latest Series A Round in 09/2023.
Notable Investors: NFX, QED Investors, Firstminute Capital, TriplePoint Capital, CDP Venture Capital, 645 Ventures, Primo Ventures, Avonmore Developments, Chris Archer, 3VC, Vijay Shankar, i80 | Group, BlackSheep Ventures, The Techshop.
👻 Opportunity:
Derek Merrill (US, 2023): CEO & Founder at Blox.
Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 38.
Description: Blox is the financial AI automation platform for real estate.
Prev. Experience: CEO & Founder @ LeaseLock, Director of Product @ ZipRecruiter, CEO & Founder @ EverySignal, Sr. Product Manager @ Motricity, CPO & Co-founder @ MoVoxx (Acquired by Motricity), Inc., Co-Founder @ Infreeda (Acquired by AT&T Interactive).
🎱 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:
RometX (EU, 2017) - Featured by Specter on: 2022 - Week 31.
Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 400 Days.
Description: ROME Therapeutics is developing novel therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases by harnessing the power of the repeatome.
Total Funding: $199M / $72M Latest Series B Round in 09/2023.
Notable Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, Alexandria Venture Investments, Casdin Capital, Section 32, Mirae Asset Capital, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Sanofi Ventures, Bristol Myers Squibb, Partners Innovation Fund, Mass General Brigham Ventures, Sigmas Group, ArchVentures SA, Axon Ventures, Luma Group.
👻 Opportunity:
Ang Li (US, 2023): Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup.
Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 38.
Prev. Experience: Apple, Software Engineer Intern @ Google, Research Intern @ Meta, Mentor at Google For Startups @ Google, Staff Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind, Head of US Software Engineering @ Baidu Apollo.
Signal: Increased VC Interest in 09/2023.
🍒 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:
GHGSat (CA, 2011) - Specter Rank: 9,541 📈
Description: GHGSat’s mission is to become the global reference for remote sensing of greenhouse gas.
Total Funding: $147.3M / Latest $44.1M Series C Round in 09/2023.
Notable Investors: BDC Venture Capital, Sustainable Development Technology Canada, Fonds de solidarité FTQ, Investissement Quebec, BloombergNEF, Space Capital, Bank of Montreal, Dylan Taylor, Climate Investment, SLB, Japan Energy Fund.
6 Months Growth: Web: 260%; Team: +13%; Social: +8%.
👻 Opportunity:
Smartex (US, 2018) - Specter Rank: 102 📈
Description: Smartex.ai is an AI and computer vision company that uses automated inspection to detect textile defects.
Total Funding: $27.6M / Latest $24.7M Latest Series A Round in 09/2022.
Notable Investors: SOSV, Lightspeed Venture Partners, HAX, DCVC, Spider Capital, Momenta, Faber, H&M Group Ventures, Fashion For Good, Bombyx Capital Partners, Build Collective.
6 Months Growth: Web: +322%; Team: 76%; Social: +24%.
