Beyond Today: Exploring 8 Future Categories for Tech Due Diligence
Tech due diligence typically involves evaluating the technical capabilities, strengths, weaknesses, and risks of a company’s technology infrastructure, systems, software, and hardware. Ensuring Tech Due Diligence ‘stays in its lane‘ It’s tempting to comment and report on areas outside the scope of the assessment because you typically get to see most, if not all, of a business, its team and its offerings. Hence, I would add sections typically in other due diligence workstreams in my early reports. Especially sales and marketing. But at the time, an investor pointed out the need to ‘stay in our lane’ due, explaining that technology was relatively tangible versus sales and marketing. He also suggested not partnering with firms that provide sales or marketing due diligence as this muddies the water for the investor. Sage advice, as I have come to learn how Private Equity investors operate. By combining practices, we would have made it too difficult for the investors to pinpoint t
