New from Specter: The Hottest Startups of June 🔥

Each month, we use the 'Hot Signals' feature within Specter, to highlight the companies and talent attracting the most interest from VC firms.

See The 9 Hottest Startups

🔮 Talents of the Week

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

🪄 Predicted:

Itay Shrem (EU, 2022): Co-Founder & CEO at SendBlocks.

• Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 2 as Stealth Signal.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 544 Days.

• Description: SendBlocks provides developers with simplified access to on-chain data through a few lines of code, enhancing blockchain interactions and reducing development time.

• Prev. Experience: R&D Group Leader, IDI Tech Unit 81 @ Israel Defense Forces, Project Manager, IDI Tech Unit 81 @ Israel Defense Forces, Electrical Engineer, DDR&D @ Israel Defense Forces.

• Total Funding: $8.2M / $8.2M Latest Seed on 07-2024.

• Notable Investors: Castle Island Ventures, Illuminate Financial, Laser Digital, Pitango VC, StarkWare Industries.

👻 Opportunity:

Marc Trup (EU, 2024): Co-Founder at Stealth Startup.

• Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 23.

• Prev. Experience: Founder & CEO @ Arthur (Acquired), Founder & CEO @ Redbus CPD (Acquired), Co-Founder @ Saxon Investments & Azik Capital, Founder & CEO @ Corporate Dental Services (Acquired).

• Total Funding: N/A.

• Notable Investors: N/A.

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🎱 Strategic Signals

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:

Odyssey (US, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2023 - Week 38.

• Advantage on Latest Funding Round: 292 Days.

• Description: Odyssey provides AI-generated video with cinematic visual effects for professional storytellers to produce editable and exportable scenes in standardized 3D file formats.

• Total Funding: $9M / $9M Latest Seed on 07-2024.

• Notable Investors: Air Street Capital, DCVC, Elad Gil, Garry Tan, Google Ventures, Guillermo Rauch, Jeff Dean, Kyle Vogt, Qasar Younis, Soleio Soleio, Soumith Chintala, Ovtr.

👻 Opportunity:

Comand AI (EU, 2023) - Featured by Specter on: 2024 - Week 24.

• Description: Command AI provides AI-powered command for defense & security operations.

• Total Funding: $3.3M / $3.3M Latest Seed on 07-2023.

• Notable Investors: Kima Ventures, Tiny VC, Frst.

• Signal: Increased VC Interest in 07/2024.

🍒 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:

Phaidra (US, 2019) - Specter Rank: 27,944📈

• Description: Phaidra provides AI and ML solutions to accelerate performance in large-scale industries.

• Total Funding: $42.5M / $12M Latest Venture Round on 07-2024.

• Notable Investors: Root and Shoot Ventures, Vela Partners, Starshot Capital, Helena, Mustafa Suleyman, Ahren Innovation Capital, Section 32, Character, Flying Fish Partners, Outcomes Fund, Mark Cuban, University of Washington, NJF Capital, Firstminute Capital.

• 6 Months Growth: Web: 8.23%, Team: 12.82%, Social: 18.1%.

👻 Opportunity:

Harmonic (US, 2023) - Specter Rank: 2,724,395📈

• Description: Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. Harmonic builds AI that is truthful, with verifiably correct and interpretable outputs.

• Total Funding: Undisclosed Amount Latest Unknown Round on 06-2024.

• Notable Investors: Vlad Tenev.

• 3 Months Growth: Web: 77.3%, Team: 25%, Social: 10.2%.