Tech due diligence
Buy, walk, or renegotiate. We help you make the call.
You’re about to back a business whose technology you can’t fully see. Is the product as solid as the demo, or held together with tape? How much of it lives in one person’s head? What will it really cost to fix and run after the deal closes? We give investors and acquirers an independent, senior read on a target’s technology, in plain English, so you know what you’re buying. You don’t need a big-firm process to de-risk a deal this size, and you shouldn’t be guessing either.
Led by Alok Nabi, who founded and sold an insurtech startup, helped scale a fintech through to acquisition, and backs early-stage founders as an angel and advisor. About Alok →
What we look at
- Architecture and code quality: built to last, or due for a rebuild
- Scalability: whether the tech can carry the growth the deal is priced on
- Security, compliance, and the exposure you would inherit
- IP and licensing: whether they actually own what you think you are buying
- Key-person risk: how much of this lives in one or two heads
- The team you would be keeping, and the gaps you would be filling
- The real cost to fix, integrate, and run it after the deal
How it works
Scope
A short conversation to pin down the deal thesis, the access we need, and the risks that actually matter for this deal.
Red-flag read
A fast first pass at the deal-breakers, so you get an early go or no-go before committing to a full review.
Full read
If the deal is still alive, the deeper review: a plain-English report your investment committee can act on, with the real risks and what they will cost to fix.
Who it’s for
- Investors and acquirers backing or buying a software business
- Search funds, angel syndicates, and family offices running their own diligence
- Strategic buyers acquiring a smaller company and its technology
- Anyone closing a deal too small to justify a big-firm process, but too important to guess
FAQ
- What is technology due diligence?
- An independent assessment of a target’s technology before you invest or acquire: the architecture, the code, the team, the security, who owns the IP, and what it will really cost to run and fix. The point is a clear read on what you are buying and the risks that come with it.
- How is this different from a big-firm process?
- On a deal this size, a big-firm engagement is hard to justify, and technology is rarely their main event. You get one senior person who does the work themselves, sized to your deal, reporting in plain English. We are independent, with no stake in the deal and nothing to sell you afterwards, so the call you get is straight.
- Can you move fast on a live deal?
- Yes. We start with a fast red-flag read: the deal-breakers first, so you get an early go or no-go before committing to a full review. Competitive deals do not wait, so neither do we.
- What if I am the one being acquired or raising?
- That is the other side of this table, and it is work we do under our fractional CTO service: getting your technology, architecture, and data room ready before an investor’s expert goes looking.