Expanded Tech Due Diligence for investors
Can the technology carry the plan your investment is funding?
I start from your investment thesis, find where the technology could break it, and give you a clear verdict on each risk, with what it means for the deal.
How an engagement works
We start from what your investment thesis needs to be true. I map how the company creates value, find where the thesis could fail, and we settle the key questions together. Then I check the claims and give you a verdict on each risk, with what to do about it.
Your input
Investor: Thesis
What must be true, and the risks your committee sees
From the company
Data room
Documents, code and configuration
From the company
Founders and CTOs
Interviews and claims
My research
Value chain
How value is created, mapped from research and the data room
Risk location
Where the thesis could fail, including risks you did not raise
Together
Key questions
Three to six, each linking a thesis assumption to a risk
- Margin
- Growth
- New market
- Execution
My assessment
Evidence
Interview claims checked against documents, code and configuration
Verdict
- Holds
- Holds with a condition
- Red flag
What to do
- Fix before closing
- Fix after closing
- Monitor
Back to the investment committee
Verdict, what to do, and a Q&A on the key questions
Typical key questions
Each links a thesis assumption to a risk, and ends in a verdict.
Does technology cost per euro of revenue fall as the company grows?
Can the platform carry the customer numbers in the plan without a rebuild?
Does the product meet the security and compliance bar of the customers the plan targets?
Can the team deliver the roadmap the plan depends on, with the hires budgeted?
What you receive
- A short report on your key questions
- Cost and time to close each gap
- A Q&A session with your committee or co-investors
- Shareable under a non-reliance letter
Where I am strongest
- Data platforms and cloud products
- Earth observation, space downstream
- Enterprise readiness: security, compliance, reliability
- Technology cost and unit economics
Engagements
Fixed fee, agreed in writing after a free 30-minute scoping call
Snapshot
Fast verdicts, before or after the term sheet
Founder and engineer interviews, plus existing documents.
Assessment
Confirmatory, once systems access is granted
Claims checked against read-only access to code, cloud and configuration.
Deep Dive
Larger rounds and acquisitions
Every key question checked against systems and data.
I fit the scope to your deal schedule. When time is short, every material risk is still checked and the depth goes where it matters most. Starting before the term sheet leaves the most room.
One contract, one report
A scientist, hardware engineer or industry expert from my network joins when a question needs one, under my contract. Nobody for you to coordinate.
I never assess a company I have advised, and I will disclose any earlier contact.
About me
25 years in the software industry. Over five years at LiveEO, where I built the cloud infrastructure from zero and ran infrastructure and IT behind its satellite data products, with imagery ingested at petabyte scale. I took the company through ISO 27001 and SOC 2 and was the technical contact for investor due diligence in several financing rounds. Before that, seven years at F5 Networks developing its web application firewall. BSc Computer Science, Executive MBA (ESCP). Interviews in English, German, Hebrew and Hungarian.
Preparing a transaction?
Please pick a time for a free 30-minute scoping call, or send me a few lines about your deal by email.