Tech Due Diligence for Founders

Investors are going to look at your technology eventually. The question is whether you want to find the problems before they do - or after, when it costs you valuation points.

A pre-fundraise tech due diligence gives you the chance to identify and fix issues on your own terms, and to present your technology as a strength rather than a risk.

Why Founders Should Run Their Own Tech DD

Running a tech DD before fundraising serves three purposes:

1. Find and fix problems before investors see them - Technical debt, security gaps, and architecture issues are easier (and cheaper) to address proactively.
2. Build credibility with investors - Sharing a third-party tech assessment signals transparency and engineering maturity.
3. Set realistic expectations - Know your technology’s strengths and weaknesses so you can discuss them confidently with due diligence teams.

What Investors Look For

Having assessed targets for dozens of VCs and PE firms, we know exactly what investors scrutinize:

• Test coverage and CI/CD - Is there automated testing? Can the team ship safely?
• Architecture decisions - Are they appropriate for the current stage and next stage of growth?
• Security basics - Encryption, access controls, data handling. The fundamentals.
• Documentation - Does institutional knowledge exist outside of people’s heads?
• Scalability - Can the product handle 10x growth without a major rewrite?

Our Pre-Fundraise Assessment

Our founder-focused assessment is designed to be constructive, not adversarial:

1. We review your codebase, architecture, and infrastructure
2. We interview your engineering team (supportively, not interrogatively)
3. We deliver a prioritized report: what to fix now, what can wait, and what’s already strong
4. We help you build a narrative around your technology for investor conversations

The goal is to make you investment-ready, not to create a laundry list of problems.

Common Issues We Help Founders Fix

The most frequent findings in pre-fundraise assessments:

• Missing or minimal test coverage - the #1 red flag for investors
• No staging environment or formal deployment process
• Hardcoded credentials or secrets in version control
• Monolithic architecture that will become a scaling bottleneck
• Single points of failure in infrastructure

These are all fixable - and fixing them before your fundraise dramatically improves how investors perceive your engineering maturity.

See our red flags guide for more common issues, or compare how tech DD differs from financial DD.