Technical Debt: How Investors Should Price It Before They Close
Technical debt is not a score. It has principal, interest and a due date. Here is how investors can size it, price it and fund the fix before closing.
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Practical guidance for investors and founders on technology due diligence: the questions to ask, how to test key person risk, how to size and price technical debt, and what to check at Series A. Each article is written for deal teams that need findings they can act on before closing.
Technical debt is not a score. It has principal, interest and a due date. Here is how investors can size it, price it and fund the fix before closing.
Key person risk is the single point of failure investors often miss. Five practical tests, a simple scoring grid and what to fix before diligence starts.
A technology due diligence checklist in eight areas, with the questions to ask, what a good answer sounds like and the red flags that change a deal.
Series A technical due diligence rarely fails on one bug. Five repeat patterns, from key-person risk to stale access controls, decide how the room reacts.