Due Diligence

Due Diligence

9 articles tagged with due diligence across diagnostic patterns, climate tech, investor guidance, and earth observation.

For Investors

Case: The DD That Changed the Deal

A Series B climate adaptation company with strong metrics and validated technology. The structural assessment found something the numbers couldn't show.

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For Investors

How Engagements Work

What hiring a structural diagnostician looks like. From a two-week pre-investment assessment to six months of organisational redesign.

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For Investors

For Family Offices

Fewer bets. Longer horizons. Higher stakes. Family offices entering climate tech bring financial evaluation expertise but need structural diagnosis the standard DD process doesn't cover.

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For Investors

Founder-CEO Assessment

Can this founder scale? The usual assessment is personal. Structural assessment reveals the problem is almost never the founder. It's the organisational design around the founder.

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For Investors

Impact Due Diligence Evaluates the Wrong Layer

Impact frameworks evaluate outputs: carbon reduced, people served, SDGs aligned. They don't evaluate whether the organisation can sustain those outputs.

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For Investors

The Structural Diagnostic a Family Office Needs Before Writing a Direct Check

Family office direct investing in climate tech is structurally different from fund investing. Standard financial DD misses the organizational risks that determine whether the company can deliver.

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For Investors

Where Capital Should Flow Based on Physical Science, Not Market Narrative

Market narrative and physical science disagree on where climate capital is needed. The data points to sectors where small capital has outsized impact.

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For Investors

Organizational Due Diligence

Your due diligence evaluates the market, the technology, and the team. It almost never evaluates the operating structure that has to deliver on the thesis.

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Earth Observation

The Expert Network Model Isn't Designed to Give You What You Need

Expert networks give you 45 anonymous minutes. You need a structural diagnosis of the EO company you're about to invest in. The model is wrong, not the experts.

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