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A Crosslake Alternative That Fits the Deal in Front of You
(advisory profile) You are two weeks from a confirmatory diligence deadline, the target is a software or software-enabled business, and someone on the deal team said…
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The IT Diagnostic for Private Equity: What a Deal Partner Needs to Decide
You are three weeks from signing an LOI, or you have signed and confirmatory diligence is running hot, and someone hands you a 40-page technical report.…
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M&A Technology Assessment: What a Deal Partner Needs to Decide
An M&A technology assessment should answer four questions in order: does the platform carry the investment thesis, is there a deal-breaker risk, what will integration cost…
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The Architecture and Scalability Review for Acquisition
You are three weeks from signing, the growth model in the deck assumes the platform triples transaction volume inside 24 months, and no one on your…
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Buy-Side Technology Due Diligence
You are three weeks from signing, the LOI is out, and the technology section of your diligence report reads like a bug tracker. Forty pages of…
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Code Quality Assessment for Acquisition
You are three weeks from close on a software-enabled business, the LOI is signed, and the growth thesis rests on a product roadmap the target’s founder…
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Exit readiness for portfolio companies: the tech and GTM gaps buyers price down
Short answer. Exit readiness for a portfolio company means a buyer’s due diligence team can verify the growth story from the company’s own systems without finding…
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Private equity audit: what a technology and revenue audit finds in the first two weeks
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