Specter

What is Specter?

Specter is a private-markets data and deal-sourcing platform for venture capital, private equity, M&A and go-to-market teams. It covers more than 50M companies, 700M people and 350K investors, according to the vendor.

Key features of Specter

• Company, people and investor data: datasets with revenue and valuation estimates.
• Talent signals: founder moves and job changes.
• Interest signals: VC, PE and M&A interest.
• Sourcing filters: filter by thesis, education and founder networks.
• In-app agent: runs searches and returns ranked, sourced lists.
• Network tracking: maps your team's connections to find warm paths.
• API and exports: REST API, bulk exports to S3, Google Cloud and Snowflake, and an MCP server.

How Specter works

Investors define a thesis, Specter surfaces matching companies and signals, and teams push records into their CRM with two-way sync. The agent can plan research and answer with sources.

Who uses Specter?

The vendor says 400+ teams use it, including firms such as Index Ventures and Bessemer.

Specter pricing

Specter does not list plans or prices on its homepage; it offers a demo request.

Specter integrations

Specter syncs two-way with Salesforce, Attio, Affinity and HubSpot, offers a Chrome extension and REST API, and exports to AWS S3, Google Cloud and Snowflake.

Specter alternatives

Dealroom is a European-focused startup data platform. Grata is a private company search tool for M&A. Preqin covers private capital fund and investor data. ZoomInfo is a general B2B contact database.