Technical due diligence

Independent technical assessment for angel investors, family offices, venture capital funds, corporate venture units and M&A teams.

Duration: 1–4 weeks

Most investors do not have an in-house CTO. They rely on the founder’s narrative and transfer money based on a pitch presentation and gut feeling. Technical due diligence is an independent, rapid assessment of a company’s technical reality – carried out by engineers who have built and scaled systems within fintech, SaaS and deeptech. No commercial relationship to the company being assessed.

What we assess

• Code inspection – structure, dependencies, whether a new team can take over
• Ownership check – developer agreements, subcontractor history, open-source licensing risk
• Infrastructure review – servers, cloud setup, backups, single points of failure
• Security review – hardcoded secrets, access control, known vulnerabilities
• Architecture review – design, scalability
• Compliance and data handling – GDPR, data storage, regulatory exposure
• Vendor and dependency risk – third-party dependencies, lock-in
• Team and key-person risk – competency assessment, bus factor

The deliverable is a structured report where technical debt is quantified, risk areas flagged by severity, and an executive summary included.

Three tiers

Who it is for

• Angel investors and syndicates
• Family offices with technology exposure
• VC funds without dedicated TDD capacity
• Boards wanting an independent technical picture

What happens next?

If the report reveals gaps, we also build – Discovery project, MVP, AI internal tools.