For private equity origination
The company search that verifies the list for you.
Describe your investment thesis in plain English. Spectrm builds a detailed understanding of your sector by researching the sources that matter, then verifies each company by reading its website the way an analyst would. Delivered to your inbox as a spreadsheet, with the evidence attached.
| Company | Description | Sector verification | Ownership | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jellysmack | Digital media and creator-technology company helping creators grow their communities and earnings across platforms. | Operates in the creator economy “Jellysmack takes creators from one platform to many to help save time, maximize revenue, and build long-term success.”jellysmack.com | VC-backed Ultimate parent: SoftBank Vision Fund 2 Companies Housenews |  214 employees |
| Skimlinks | Affiliate monetisation platform for publishers, shopping platforms and influencers. | Operates in the creator economy | Foreign parent | 119 employees |
| Synamedia | Video experience and anti-piracy technology for broadcast and streaming operators. | Operates in the creator economy | PE-backed | 1,358 employees |
Jellysmack
214 employeesDigital media and creator-technology company helping creators grow their communities and earnings across platforms.
Sector verification
Operates in the creator economy
“Jellysmack takes creators from one platform to many to help save time, maximize revenue, and build long-term success.”jellysmack.com
Ownership
Ultimate parent: SoftBank Vision Fund 2
Companies HousenewsDescribe the mandate. Get back a verified list.
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Enter your investment thesis.
Customer types, core offerings, niches, geographies, and exclusions: the businesses you don't want to see. Add example companies to steer the search.
Investment thesis - 2
Spectrm researches the sector first.
It researches your sector to understand it beyond your brief: customer segments, industry terms, sub-sectors. Then it finds the industry-specific sources where companies actually show up, in addition to the open web: news articles, awards lists, industry shortlists. The search runs live, so the list reflects the market today, not a database snapshot.
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Every company is checked the way an analyst would check it.
Spectrm finds each company's website, confirms it's the right company, and reads the site for evidence that it fits your mandate. A company only makes the list if the evidence is there, and anything you've excluded knocks it out. Ownership is resolved by walking up the corporate tree at Companies House, through the officers, reconciled against the news.
Jellysmack
214 employeesDigital media and creator-technology company helping creators grow their communities and earnings across platforms.
Sector verification
Site read for evidence
Operates in the creator economy
“Jellysmack takes creators from one platform to many to help save time, maximize revenue, and build long-term success.”
jellysmack.comOwnership
VC-backedUltimate parent: SoftBank Vision Fund 2
SoftBank Vision Fund 2ultimate parentAnnie Caple Limitedregistered parent (Delaware)Jellysmackoperating company (UK)Key people: M. PhilippeCompanies House
“Jellysmack confirms Series C investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2”news
Reconciled against the tree before it's concluded.
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The list lands in your inbox.
Start the search, get on with your day. Results arrive as a spreadsheet: descriptions, ownership with the ultimate parent named, LinkedIn profile and employee count, and the evidence behind every verification, ready for your CRM or the investment team.
Every result shows its working.
Spectrm doesn't tag companies; it reads them. For every company on your list you can see the checks it had to satisfy and the exact evidence found on their site, quoted and sourced. Trusting the list never means taking our word for it.
1Company found
Skimlinkssurfaced during the live sector search
2Website located & confirmed
skimlinks.comright company, right site
3Site read for evidence
- About
- Product
- Blog
4Evidence extracted
Operates in the creator economy
“Our content monetization platform built for influencers and creators”
skimlinks.com
Candidate removed
evidence of talent-agency representation as the core business; knocked out
A verified long list in a day, not a week.
~1 day
to a verified long list, down from about a week of tools plus manual checking.
95%
sector accuracy: correct sector fit, checked by customers by hand in sectors they already knew.
The search layer of your stack.
You already have a CRM, a financials source, and tools for triage and outreach. Spectrm doesn't replace them; it feeds them. We do the search: comprehensiveness, sector verification, ownership, key people. Results arrive as a spreadsheet and drop into whatever you run today.
And where your investment criteria lean on other sources, like financial thresholds through the data platform you already use, we can build those checks into your searches. That's what extended access is for.
If your pain is what happens after you have your targets, you need a workflow platform. If your pain is trusting the list you start with, that's us.
Start with a search.
Free
Sign up and run your first 3 searches free over a month. Full output: verification evidence, ownership, LinkedIn enrichment included. No card, no contract.
Run your first searchExtended access
When the lists earn it: more searches, and Spectrm tuned to your firm; your investment criteria encoded, checks built against the sources you already use, your definitions applied.
Want it tuned to your firm's criteria, or simply to learn more? Book 15 minutes.
Why we built Spectrm.
Spectrm started with the two of us: friends for over a decade, an ex-quant and a design engineer who have built software for HFT firms, banks and startups, deciding to work on a real, difficult problem together.
Speaking to dozens of origination teams, we kept finding the same week. Tools built for volume return thousands of near-misses that analysts re-qualify by hand; the real long list sits scattered across news articles, awards lists and industry shortlists; and every hour spent sifting is an hour not spent with founders. One sentence came back over and over: an accurate list of fifty beats a thousand maybes you have to sift.
So we spent eight months inside private equity origination, including a design partnership with a mid-market firm, learning how origination teams identify investment targets that match their fund's thesis.
Frequently asked questions
- How long does a search take?
- A few hours, typically. Spectrm runs a live search and reads each company's website at search time, rather than querying a stale database; that's what the verification costs, and why the list arrives checked. Start a search, close the tab; the results land in your inbox.
- Where does the data come from?
- From the sources an analyst would actually check, live at search time: the open web, news articles, awards lists, industry shortlists, Companies House, and each company's LinkedIn profile, including employee count. Every data point is double-checked: the website, LinkedIn profile, and Companies House record we match to a company are verified against each other before they reach your list. Because the search runs in real time, results are as current as the sources themselves.
- Is my thesis confidential?
- Yes. Your investment thesis, sector definitions, search criteria and the lists they produce are ring-fenced to your firm: never shared with, shown to, or reused for any other customer, and never used to populate examples, defaults or suggestions for anyone else.
- What's the coverage?
- Ownership resolution covers UK-registered companies, through Companies House. If your mandate has a specific coverage need, get in touch; this is an area we're actively extending.
- Does it fit our existing tools?
- Results export as a spreadsheet, so they drop into your CRM and workflow today. Where your criteria lean on other sources, a financials platform for instance, we can integrate that check into your searches as part of extended access.
- What does it cost?
- Your first 3 searches are free. Extended access is priced per firm; book 15 minutes once you've seen a list.