Technical Due Diligence
Whether you are an Angel, a Seed Investor, a Venture Capitalist or involved in Mergers and Acquisitions, your primary objective is to see a positive return on your investment in a technology company. After deciding that a company has the right people leading the team, has a product that addresses a real market need and has the plan in place to hit a home run, how do you identify the technical risks that can get in the way of a lucrative exit?
This is where we come in. We have the depth of knowledge in the issues that can sidetrack the best of plans as well as how to keep those plans on track. We can provide better visibility into what to watch out for, how to see it coming, and what to do if it all hits the fan.
Think of us as insurance against your investment.
Throughout the Investment Lifecycle
When first assessing a prospective investment, we can help you understand the feasibility of the project plans, identify any gaps in the resource pool, and understand whether you can have confidence in the development approach that the team is using.
While growing your investment the team evolves, the market evolves, and no project plays through as originally planned. We can support you in making the mid-course corrections to maintain high capital efficiency and protect your investment. With better visibility into progress and higher efficiency, your chances of building a star increase dramatically.
After divesting, no matter the outcome, it is in your best interests to understand what worked well and what could have been done better. While it is easy to suggest external market conditions were the cause of many corporate failures, in most cases internal management challenges are significant contributors. Understanding these conditions, win or lose, will make you a stronger investor the next time around.
Flexible Implementation
We start with our Performance Diagnostic to get an initial understanding of the lay of the land, which will give you an immediate overall perspective, as well as benchmarks against similar companies in the industry. From this point we will drill down into the areas of concern to understand the true nature of the risks that lie within, primarily through interviews and audits of artifact.
We can address specific questions about the company you may have, or work to a standard set that we have evolved based on our experience.
Depending on your needs, we can provide a verbal debrief of our findings, a summary Power Point deck, or a comprehensive report of findings with specific areas of concern and prioritized recommendations for remediation.
We will work within your budgets and can usually turn our efforts around in a very brief time period, and will make ourselves available to you as well as the prospect after the review has been completed for clarification as necessary.
If at any time your investment requires some technical support in staying or getting back on plan for success, we can provide objective guidance, training and mentoring to ensure your best chances of success.
Please contact us for more information regarding this service.
