Technical due diligence answers one question. Will this technology support the business the investor is being asked to fund, and what will it cost to get there. The checklist below is the one I use, whether I am running diligence for an investor or preparing a founder to face it.
Private equity firms review the technology of their portfolio companies for three reasons. To protect the value they have already bought, to find the value they have not yet unlocked, and to make sure nothing technical derails the exit. We recently worked with a private equity in
Investors will look at your technology, and they will look harder than you expect. Technical due diligence is now a standard part of most rounds, and a founder who cannot answer the questions confidently loses either the deal or the valuation. A fractional CTO brought in three to