Venture and growth investors: test the technology behind the growth plan
Establish what the technology can support, what needs to change and what that work means for the plan you are assessing.
Heremba provides technology advisory for growth investors and venture investors. We examine technology and data against the intended use, translating findings into cost, timing and risk. The assessment should make the requirements behind the growth assumptions visible before the investment decision.
Diligence experience
Pre-deal diligence carried through to Day-1 continuity.
Read the B2B information diligence case study. The relevant experience is the connection between assessment and operational continuity.
Test the assumptions behind scale
Distinguish capability from work still required
A plan may depend on supporting more customers, operating across a broader business or changing the systems behind delivery. Technology Due Diligence assesses the technology requirements against the available evidence. Scalability needs to be considered in relation to that intended use, rather than treated as a general description of the estate.
Put technical debt into the plan
Technical debt matters through its consequences. The assessment identifies the changes required, the dependencies they carry and the assumptions behind their cost. The investor needs to understand what the plan requires before treating future capability as if it already exists.
A pre-LOI assessment can identify the questions for fuller diligence where that stage fits the transaction. Its conclusions remain bounded by the access and evidence available.
Examine the data behind data-led growth
Data Readiness & Assurance tests whether selected datasets are in the condition claimed and ready for the intended use. The relevant question may concern migration, reporting or a growth initiative dependent on data. Analytics, automation and AI are possible uses to assess where they form part of the plan.
The service examines the 5–10 datasets driving integration cost and the value case. It translates findings into technical implications; it does not replace financial diligence or verify an entire growth forecast. Under the buyer-side model, findings are released through counsel-agreed clean-team arrangements, without raw data passing to the buyer.
Connect investment findings to the work afterwards
Where the investment involves an acquisition, Post-Merger & Bolt-On Integration can address the technology work required to combine estates. Carve-Out & Separation is relevant where the business depends on seller services. Day-1 Readiness & Rescue concerns the technology needed to operate at completion.
Those assignments follow the transaction. They are not assumed requirements for every venture or growth investment. For the operating business, IT Value Creation & Estate Remediation can address agreed estate weaknesses and cost requirements as the plan develops.
Questions about the assignment
Can you assess the technology behind a growth plan?
Yes. We assess the technology requirements of the intended plan against the evidence available, including relevant scalability, technical debt and data questions. Findings describe the work and dependencies involved. The assessment does not validate the entire commercial forecast or replace the investor’s financial and commercial diligence.
Does limited access prevent an early assessment?
An early assessment can identify material technology questions using the evidence available. Its scope and conclusions must reflect those limits. We distinguish what has been established from what requires fuller diligence, so the investor can consider unresolved assumptions rather than interpret incomplete access as confirmation of capability.
Can you test data used in an AI or analytics growth plan?
The data service can assess whether selected datasets are ready for an intended use, including analytics or AI where relevant to the value case. This is a data condition and readiness assessment using standard profiling tools. It is not positioned as an AI product or a guarantee of growth.
Do you need to take on post-investment delivery?
No. The engagement can be limited to a defined assessment. Where delivery is required, the findings can inform a separately scoped technology workstream. Integration, separation and Day-1 assignments apply when the transaction requires them; they are not automatically part of every venture or growth investment.
Scope against the decision and the evidence
Bring the growth assumptions, the technology questions and the date of the decision. We establish the assessment boundary, available access and outputs required. The scope should identify which claims can be tested and which remain unresolved.
Heremba owns the agreed technology assignment alongside the investor’s other diligence work. Investment decisions remain with the investor. Our M&A Technology Framework shows the relevant lifecycle stages, and our methodology explains how the technical evidence connects to decisions and delivery.