due diligence

It’s been a tough year for tech startups globally. These struggles have manifested in layoffs, down rounds and complete shutdowns caused by current market conditions, utter mismanagement or fraud.

This year has seen numerous founders get caught lying about their users, VCs should start asking the right questions early.

Maybe some founders are under pressure to return money to investors, but what about the GPs who are sending funds back to their LPs?

If you’re not careful, you can come up against delays, or worse, investors pulling out at the last minute.

It's critical for due diligence providers to analyze a company's business segments and product lines to identify the range of its exposure to potential issues.

You should never be signing checks because all the cool kids are doing it — that is never a sound approach to doing most things in life, let alone investing millions of dollars.

FTX's bankruptcy filing speaks volumes about how quickly venture capitalists dropped their own advice to secure a seat on a rocket they were hoping would only go up. It did not.

San Francisco is no longer the center of the startup universe, and it hasn’t been for a while.

Here's a detailed checklist C-level executives and managers can use to help VCs determine if your "codebase is safe enough for investment."

Too often, startup recruiting resembles scenes from heist movies where the characters are putting a crew together.

The themes of codebase health that great investors care about are also strategic decisions that help create code to support a great business.

By keeping the information you provide tightly coupled with the initial story that captured investor interest, you create momentum within the partnership.

Here's what investors are looking for when writing the first check into a fledgling startup.

While IPOs may get more headlines, a well-timed, well-planned acquisition can mean even larger opportunities for you, your team and the technologies you’ve built.

Green startups now need to refine their strategies for raising VC money during the scaling stage, especially when they begin assessing their defining values vis-a-vis their finances.

In order to effectively mitigate sanction risks, PEs are doing due diligence on their LPs and investing in the management of compliance programs and policies at their portfolio companies.

You can begin intelligence-driven investigation and evaluation much earlier without needing network access or information sharing.

Money laundering has been a hot topic of late in the UK, which is facing pressure to not just make tighter rules to track down the origins of money that’s spent on large assets in the country li

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TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas and Mary Ann Azevedo, the trio behind the Equity podcast, dive into what's in store for startup due diligence.