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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:

Renate Nyborg (US, 2023): Founder & CEO at Meeno.

• Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 3 as Stealth signal.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 250 Days.

• Description: Meeno offers an AI relationship mentoring app targeting young adults.

• Prev. Experience: Chief Executive Officer @Tinder, AI Fund, Headspace Inc., Apple, Founder & CEO @Pleo, Edelman, dmg media, Poken by GES, European Leadership Programme, Twestival, New Stream Media, Hammond Partners, Basis Research.

• Total Funding: $5M / $3.9M Latest Seed Round in 09/2023.

• Notable Investors: Sequoia Capital, AI Fund, New Enterprise Associates, Jim Lanzone, Joe Zadeh, Megan Jones Bell, André Heinz, Peter Rojas, Eileen Burbidge.

👻 Opportunity:

Oliver Cameron (US, 2023): Founder at Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 38.

• Prev. Experience: Skyways, Cruise, Co-Founder & CEO @Voyage (Acquired by Cruise), Udacity, Co-Founder & CEO @Everyme.

  
  

🎱 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:

Corti (EU, 2016) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 13.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 176 Days.

• Description: Corti is a machine learning company that helps emergency departments to detect critical illnesses like cardiac arrest in real time.

• Total Funding: €80.9M / €56M Latest Series B Round in 09/2023.

• Notable Investors: Atomico, Prosus Ventures, Chr. Augustinus Fabrikker, Vaekstfonden, byFounders, Heartcore Capital, Export and Investment Fund, Eurazeo, Idinvest Partners.

👻 Opportunity:

Matt Henderson (EU, 2023): Co-founder and CEO at Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 38.

• Prev. Experience: CEO Stripe Europe & Head of Global Product @Stripe, Google, Founder @Rangespan (Acquired by Google), Amazon

• 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:

Anthropic (US, 2021) - Specter Rank: 18 📈

• Description: Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that focuses on increasing the safety of large-scale AI systems.

• Total Funding: $2.8B / Latest $1.3B Corporate Round in 09/2023.

• Notable Investors: Amazon, SK Telecom, Spark Capital, Google, Sam Bankman-Fried, Jaan Tallinn, Sahin Boydas, SAP, Menlo Ventures, Zoom Ventures, Seven Rivers Capital LTD, Sound Ventures.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: 1,739%; Team: +85%; Social: +252%.

👻 Opportunity:

Woflow (US, 2017) - Specter Rank: 430 📈

• Description: Woflow is a merchant data platform that automates catalog digitization in the onboarding process through an API.

• Total Funding: $10.9M / Latest $7.3M Latest Series A Round in 01/2022.

• Notable Investors: Base10 Partners, Construct Capital, Craft Ventures, Garuda Ventures, RiverPark Ventures, Flex Capital.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: +204%; Team: 27%; Social: +43%.