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DUE DILIGENCE
Engage Osparna to conduct technical due diligence on your behalf. Our analysts will evaluate the company’s product, process and team freeing your time to focus on deal terms.
SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES
Engage with current and potential portfolio companies through surveys and questionnaires. Request routine information, stay in touch with the companies in which you’ve invested.
DATA IS THE FOUNDATION
Decisions are made by evaluating available data. Osparna makes it easy for you to document your knowledge about an industry, your investment thesis and goals for the transaction.
BIAS IDENTIFICATION
Every investor has developed “pattern recognition”. The question is, does yours serve you well? Could you improve outcomes by moderating some beliefs? With Osparna you make investment criteria explicit and determine their importance for each decision.
COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
Learn about companies that have recently been funded. Expand the breadth of your competitive analysis when evaluating a potential investment opportunity.
PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS
Are your investments meeting the goals established when the decision was made? Are they under performing their peers? Out performing them? Are the relationships you expected to make coming together?
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Osparna has extensive experience conducting technical due diligence. Osparna will work with you to evaluate an opportunity. Process plus expertise delivers better outcomes.
UNDERSTAND THE CLIENT
Every engagement is unique, Osparna begins by understanding your objectives, questions and concerns. With this guidance, the goals of the engagement are set.
RESEARCH THE MARKET
Market Research is core to an engagement, providing context at each step. This phase provides Osparna, and the client, with an understanding of the competitive landscape, technical approaches and market.
MEET THE TEAM
There is no substitute for meeting with the people driving a company’s strategy and future growth. During an engagement, Osparna typically meets with Executive Leadership, Engineering Leadership and key personnel.
SYNTHESIZE AND ANALYZE
Having understood your objectives, the market, and met the team, Osparna synthesizes its findings into an analysis of the current situation, potentially identifying gaps in the product, technology, or team. Risks toward achieving the desired future state are identified.
Next Steps
During the engagement Osparna continuously updates you. At the end of the engagement Osparna details its findings, focusing on risks and providing recommendations on how to proceed. Osparna is available to meet with the you, discuss the written report, and provide additional insight.
Areas of Practice
- Technical Due Diligence
- Technology Team Assessment
- Merger and Acquisition Diligence
- Divestiture Analysis
- Market Surveys
- Competitive Intelligence
Technical Expertise
- AI/ML/Deep Learning
- Analytics
- Enterprise Software
- GIS/Imagery Analysis
- Cybersecurity
- Renewable Energy
- Internet of Things
- Sensors
- eCommerce
- Marketing Analytics
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Case Studies
RESOLVE INVESTOR’S CONCERN REGARDING OUTSOURCED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Key Question: Private Equity firm engaged Osparna to determine if the Machine Learning (ML) based technology platform of a marketing analytics company offered a sustainable differentiated advantage.
POST-INVESTMENT GROWTH-ORIENTED TEAM ASSESSMENT
Key Question: Startup CEO closed a Series B investment at a significant step-up in valuation. The investment enabled a change in strategy, shifting its product focus to enterprise customers from their SMB customer base. Osparna was engaged to evaluate the team’s ability to deliver an enterprise product.
MARKET ANALYSIS REVEALED BETTER COMPETITOR
Key Question: Investor was introduced to the CEO of a promising startup in the imagery analysis field. Investor engaged Osparna to get up to speed on the technological approaches and pitfalls. The Investor wanted to know if the target company was well positioned against emerging competitors.
POST-REORGANIZATION TEAM ASSESSMENT
Key Question: Executive Management team sought an independent evaluation of the Product Development team post a significant reorganization. Executive Management team engaged Osparna to observe the Product Development team to determine if the reorganization was having the desired impact.
POST-INVESTMENT PRODUCT ASSESSMENT
Key Question: New investors engaged Osparna to evaluate the current product offering, with a focus on reducing build cost, and to make initial recommendations regarding the product’s evolution. As a by-product, Osparna was asked to render an opinion of the team.
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