Due Diligence
9 articles tagged with due diligence across diagnostic patterns, climate tech, investor guidance, and earth observation.
A Series B climate adaptation company with strong metrics and validated technology. The structural assessment found something the numbers couldn't show.
Read → For InvestorsWhat hiring a structural diagnostician looks like. From a two-week pre-investment assessment to six months of organisational redesign.
Read → For InvestorsFewer 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.
Read → For InvestorsCan 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.
Read → For InvestorsImpact frameworks evaluate outputs: carbon reduced, people served, SDGs aligned. They don't evaluate whether the organisation can sustain those outputs.
Read → For InvestorsFamily 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.
Read → For InvestorsMarket narrative and physical science disagree on where climate capital is needed. The data points to sectors where small capital has outsized impact.
Read → For InvestorsYour due diligence evaluates the market, the technology, and the team. It almost never evaluates the operating structure that has to deliver on the thesis.
Read → Earth ObservationExpert 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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