Software Technical Due Diligence for Investors

Target Audience: Financiers such as hedge funds, VCs, private investors and persons involved in M&A (lawyers, CFOs, decision-makers)

Purpose: Discover, assess and explain the value of a software solution

Benefits: Retaining outside consultants allows you to look at more and perhaps smaller opportunities quickly -- without reallocating stretched internal resources.

Deep experience:

• Track record in reverse-engineering and analyzing complex software systems (FirstToFile, PrimeStreet, Brightware, Citigroup,...) from third-parties (internal or external development teams)
• Familiar with "skunk works" type of projects on a tight schedule
• Experience in communicating to executives and financiers.
• Experience in communicating, gaining confidence and gathering information (including soft information) from technical teams
• Unique ability to synthesize, analyze and present complex technical topics to nontechnical staff. Concisely.
• Versatility of technical skills on staff

Fast and Low cost:

• Resources to review rapidly an extensive amount of code or documentation
• Consistent methodology
  
  

Extreme Security

• Low profile stays completely under the radar -- no risk of alerting the market (or the target company) with a big-time consulting firm.
• Controlled staff, no conflict of interest.
• Secure team, facilities and reproduceable methods.
• Very low staff turnover.
• For the last 12 years routinely handling highly confidential financial (e.g. Citigroup), healthcare (HIPAA), technological (e.g. pre-filing patents for IBM or Cisco) diplomatic (e.g. State Department) and governmental data (911 centers).