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Trusted technology partner to some of the world’s most successful private equity funds and their portfolio companies, through the investment cycle.

Advanced Tech Due Diligence:
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In-depth assessments of the technological health, innovation potential, and cyber risks of potential investments to inform smarter, safer investment decisions.
Technology Valuation Expertise:
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Assistance in accurately valuing technology assets and companies, including those based on emerging technologies, to ensure investments are made with a clear understanding of potential returns and risks.
Integration and Digital Transformation Guidance:
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Strategies and support for effectively integrating technology systems post-acquisition and leading digital transformation initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and market competitiveness.
Innovation Roadmapping:
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Insights into current and emerging technology trends to help portfolio companies develop and maintain a competitive edge through continuous innovation and adaptation to market changes.
Cybersecurity Assessment and Strategy:
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Comprehensive evaluations of cybersecurity practices and frameworks within target and portfolio companies, followed by actionable strategies to mitigate risks and protect assets.
Regulatory Compliance Advisory:
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Expertise in navigating the complex landscape of technology-related regulations, ensuring that investments comply with data protection, privacy laws, and industry-specific regulations across jurisdictions.
Talent Management Solutions:
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Advice on attracting, retaining, and developing top technology talent necessary for driving innovation and achieving business goals in a competitive landscape.
Risk Management Strategies:
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Tools and strategies to anticipate and manage the risks of market disruption due to technological advances, ensuring that portfolio companies remain resilient and adaptive.
Operational Excellence through Technology:
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Guidance on leveraging technology to optimize operations, reduce costs, and improve customer experiences, thereby increasing value across the investment period.
Exit Strategy Optimization:
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Assistance in positioning technology-driven investments attractively for exit, enhancing their value proposition to potential buyers or public market investors through demonstrated technological leadership and market readiness.
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Intro Diligize

Core Value-Add Services

Diligize is a specialist technology advisor and partner to private equity and their portfolio companies, adding value through the investment cycle.

We act as an extension of the deal team, helping you to identify and assess tech-related risks and opportunities both pre and post deal, to allow you to make effective investment decisions. We aim to provide insights that give you a competitive edge in an auction process and help you deliver superior returns.

We’re experts in technology and how it can be used to optimise business processes, reduce costs, mitigate risks, create competitive advantage and, ultimately, drive value.

This is a key part of our value proposition for PE and their portfolio companies, which is why so many of our clients become repeat users of our services, deploying us as their technology operating partner on new deals and across their portfolio.

We offer solutions for all your technology requirements, both large and small, providing significant real-world experience and offering you a single point of access to an extensive network of leading Subject Matter Experts to support your project.

We’re confident that we can add value to your deal, project or portfolio company, but would strongly encourage you to speak with our clients, who can share their own experiences and views of working with us. Client references are available on request.

Engaging Diligize as early as possible in the investment cycle ensures that your portfolio company’s technology operating model can be optimised to maximise value on exit.

Core Value-Add Services

Value-add services through the investment cycle

Pre-Deal

Post-Deal

Deal Origination

Deal Screening

Due Diligence

Post Acquisition

Value Enhancement

Exit

PE Deal Pipelines

Diligize manages three distinct deal pipelines in the UK, Spain, and Italy, focused exclusively on mid-market pure-play technology and technology-enabled companies.

Deal opportunities are distributed to sell-side advisors and to the PE buy-side, where Diligize also offers its technology due diligence services to add value to the deal, ensuring that risks are mitigated, and opportunities are well understood and priced into the deal.

Buy and Build Strategies

Diligize advises CEOs on technology-related buy and build strategies, in order to successfully identify acquisition targets and attract the appropriate PE fund to partner with.

Screening Potential Targets/Deal Opportunities

Artificial Intelligence and Big Data is transforming the way PE screen potential targets. Our AI / Big Data insights into target companies help our PE clients screen more opportunities, over a shorter timeframe and consuming less resources, reducing costs and driving returns.

Technology Differentiation

Identifying winners and losers based on the differentiation of their technology and the sustainability of their competitive advantage against emerging technologies. What was special and difficult to implement yesterday, may be available off-the-shelf today.

Buy-side IT DD

Detailed review of IT/Digital operating models, systems/infrastructure to identify/assess potential risks and opportunities to inform investment decisions.

Technology Subject Matter Experts

Access to a network of over 800 subject matter experts for all your DD/technology requirements.

Acquisition Synergy Analysis

Analysis of the proposed acquisition synergy benefits.

Carve-Out

Transaction support both pre and post-deal, including: 

  • TSA development
  • Standalone company strategy (e.g. target operating model), project plan, and budget requirement.

Technology Operating Model Optimisation

Developing new target operating models, involving business process re-engineering, optimised systems and rationalisation / consolidation of resources to deliver efficiencies post-deal.

Post Merger Integration

Assistance  with design and implementation of post-merger integration plans.

Interim Management

Provision of world-class human resources, including Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO), on an interim basis (e.g. 3-12 months).

Value Enhancement

We work with deal teams and portfolio companies, pre and post-acquisition, to identify and implement technology / digital value enhancement opportunities.

Outsourced Software Development

Management of software development projects.

Business Intelligence

Architecture, development and implementation of tailored business intelligence operating models within portfolio companies to deliver high quality real-time management information and insights.

Portfolio Company Monitoring

Monitoring of VoC/VoE signals for portfolio companies and their competitors using AI/NLP analytics to identify potential threats / risks and opportunities.

Exit Planning and Preparation

Detailed review of IT strategy, operating models and systems/infrastructure to ensure exit readiness and support for the growth strategy/business plan ahead of exit.

Sell-side IT DD

Independent review of portfolio company operating models and systems/infrastructure to support the sale / VDD process.

Services offered through the investment cycle

Cyber and Information Security

External / Internal Penetration Testing Operating model review/transformation Outsourcing 

Whether you are buying, selling, or have already bought, Diligize has the requisite cyber and information security services to ensure that your asset will be as safe as it can be from criminal activities.

External/Internal Network Penetration test - i.e.

Test the external and internal cyber security defenses, normally conducted pre-deal but available at any time for a portfolio company. et will be as safe as can be from criminal activities.

Cyber and information security operating model setup/review.

Diligize cyber security analysts are certified and registered with CREST, ISOQAR, Cyber Essentials, and HM-Cloud.

Software IPR composition analysis

If you are in the process of buying a company that is operationally dependent on proprietary software, you need to understand the intellectual property rights , potential risks and associated costs. Diligize can advise you on how best to minimize risk and optimise opportunity.

Software codebase review for open-source software risk and intellectual property rights assessment/risk profiling.

The head of practice is a regular contributor to the OpenChain standard. OpenChain is a standard for open-source license compliance that is designed to increase trust in the supply chain.

Project Recovery

70% of ERP implementations fail. Diligize project recovery specialists will reconfigure and deliver the project.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are complex software applications that integrate various functions across a business into one complete system to streamline processes and information across the organization.

70% of ERP implementations fail

The Diligize Head of Project Recovery can help your portfolio company realign the project and get it delivered.

Software Engineering and AI

Conceptualise, architect and develop high performance software platforms.

Severe and sustained worldwide competition for top software engineering talent is forecast to continue for the foreseeable future, placing constant resource and cost pressure on your portfolio company’s product and service development.

 Diligize offers your portfolio company its offshore software engineering capability in Southeast Asia, with stable long-term rates and dedicated, high quality software engineers.

 The Diligize artificial intelligence capability has delivered game-changing solutions to both private equity funds and their portfolio companies, including pre-deal due diligence solutions, and advanced online analytics for hybrid retailers

Value-Add Services Through The Investment Cycle

Our Value Add Services

Pre-Deal

Deal Origination

PE Deal Pipelines

Diligize manages three distinct deal pipelines in the UK, Spain, and Italy, focused exclusively on mid-market pure-play technology and technology-enabled companies.

Deal opportunities are distributed to sell-side advisors and to the PE buy-side, where Diligize also offers its technology due diligence services to add value to the deal, ensuring that risks are mitigated, and opportunities are well understood and priced into the deal.

Buy and Build Strategies

Diligize advises CEOs on technology-related buy and build strategies, in order to successfully identify acquisition targets and attract the appropriate PE fund to partner with.

Deal Screening

Screening Potential Targets/Deal Opportunities

Artificial Intelligence and Big Data is transforming the way PE screen potential targets. Our AI / Big Data insights into target companies help our PE clients screen more opportunities, over a shorter timeframe and consuming less resources, reducing costs and driving returns.

Technology Differentiation

Identifying winners and losers based on the differentiation of their technology and the sustainability of their competitive advantage against emerging technologies. What was special and difficult to implement yesterday, may be available off-the-shelf today.

Due Diligence

Buy-side IT DD

Detailed review of IT/Digital operating models, systems/infrastructure to identify/assess potential risks and opportunities to inform investment decisions.

Technology Subject Matter Experts

Access to a network of over 800 subject matter experts for all your DD / technology requirements.

Acquisition Synergy Analysis

Analysis of the proposed acquisition synergy benefits.

Carve-Out

Transaction support both pre and post-deal, including: 

  • TSA development
  • Standalone company strategy (e.g. target operating model), project plan and budget requirement.

Post-Deal

Post Acqusition

Technology Operating Model Optimisation

Developing new target operating models, involving business process re-engineering, optimised systems and rationalisation/consolidation of resources to deliver efficiencies post-deal.

Post Merger Integration

Assistance  with design and implementation of post-merger integration plans.

Interim Management

Provision of world-class human resources, including Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO), on an interim basis (e.g. 3-12 months).

Value Enhancement

Value Enhancement

We work with deal teams and portfolio companies, pre and post-acquisition, to identify and implement technology / digital value enhancement opportunities

Outsourced Software Development

Management of software development projects.

Business Intelligence

Architecture, development and implementation of tailored business intelligence operating models within portfolio companies to deliver high quality real-time management information and insights.

Portfolio Company Monitoring

Monitoring of VoC/VoE signals for portfolio companies and their competitors using AI/NLP analytics to identify potential threats/risks and opportunities.

Exit

Exit Planning and Preparation

Detailed review of IT strategy, operating models and systems/infrastructure to ensure exit readiness and support for the growth strategy/business plan ahead of exit.

Sell-side IT DD

Independent review of portfolio company operating models and systems/infrastructure to support the sale / VDD process.

SERVICES OFFERED THROUGH THE INVESTMENT CYCLE

Cyber and Information Security

External / Internal Penetration Testing Operating model review/transformation Outsourcing 

Whether you are buying, selling, or have already bought, Diligize has the requisite cyber and information security services to ensure that your asset will be as safe as it can be from criminal activities.

External/internal network penetration test - i.e.

test the external and internal cyber security defenses, normally conducted pre-deal but available at any time for a portfolio company. et will be as safe as can be from criminal activities.

Cyber and information security operating model setup/review.

Diligize cyber security analysts are certified and registered with CREST, ISOQAR, Cyber Essentials, and HM-Cloud.

Software IPR composition analysis

If you are in the process of buying a company that is operationally dependent on proprietary software, you need to understand the intellectual property rights, potential risks and associated costs. Diligize can advise you on how best to minimize risk and optimise opportunity.

Software codebase review for open-source software risk and intellectual property rights assessment / risk profiling.

The head of practice is a regular contributor to the OpenChain standard. OpenChain is a standard for open-source license compliance that is designed to increase trust in the supply chain.

Project Recovery

70% of ERP implementations fail. Diligize project recovery specialists will reconfigure and deliver the project.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are complex software applications that integrate various functions across a business into one complete system to streamline processes and information across the organization.

70% of ERP implementations fail

The Diligize Head of Project Recovery can help your portfolio company realign the project and get it delivered.

Software Engineering and AI

Conceptualise, architect and develop high performance software platforms.

Severe and sustained worldwide competition for top software engineering talent is forecast to continue for the foreseeable future, placing constant resource and cost pressure on your portfolio company’s product and service development.

 Diligize offers your portfolio company its offshore software engineering capability in Southeast Asia, with stable long-term rates and dedicated, high quality software engineers.

 The Diligize artificial intelligence capability has delivered game-changing solutions to both private equity funds and their portfolio companies, including pre-deal due diligence solutions, and advanced online analytics for hybrid retailers

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Advanced Tech Due Diligence:
Read More
In-depth assessments of the technological health, innovation potential, and cyber risks of potential investments to inform smarter, safer investment decisions.
Technology Valuation Expertise:
Read More
Assistance in accurately valuing technology assets and companies, including those based on emerging technologies, to ensure investments are made with a clear understanding of potential returns and risks.
Integration and Digital Transformation Guidance:
Read More
Strategies and support for effectively integrating technology systems post-acquisition and leading digital transformation initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and market competitiveness.
Innovation Roadmapping:
Read More
Insights into current and emerging technology trends to help portfolio companies develop and maintain a competitive edge through continuous innovation and adaptation to market changes.
Cybersecurity Assessment and Strategy:
Read More
Comprehensive evaluations of cybersecurity practices and frameworks within target and portfolio companies, followed by actionable strategies to mitigate risks and protect assets.
Regulatory Compliance Advisory:
Read More
Expertise in navigating the complex landscape of technology-related regulations, ensuring that investments comply with data protection, privacy laws, and industry-specific regulations across jurisdictions.
Talent Management Solutions:
Read More
Advice on attracting, retaining, and developing top technology talent necessary for driving innovation and achieving business goals in a competitive landscape.
Risk Management Strategies:
Read More
Tools and strategies to anticipate and manage the risks of market disruption due to technological advances, ensuring that portfolio companies remain resilient and adaptive.
Operational Excellence through Technology:
Read More
Guidance on leveraging technology to optimize operations, reduce costs, and improve customer experiences, thereby increasing value across the investment period.
Exit Strategy Optimization:
Read More
Assistance in positioning technology-driven investments attractively for exit, enhancing their value proposition to potential buyers or public market investors through demonstrated technological leadership and market readiness.
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