Starting due diligence for your next funding round or for an exit? You’ll need the data at your fingertips. Data in many forms and from many sources, both internal and external. Like a clear and accurate view of your customer journeys, acquisition costs and lifetime value. Or data-driven insight into your addressable market and related opportunities. Whatever the question, a demonstrable ability to exploit data is a powerful signal to investors.
My role in several high profile exits means I speak from personal experience. I held senior data positions at Just Eat, momondo Group and Trainline, constructing infrastructure with a clear focus on an exit event.
The run-up to an exit is a fraught and frantic time for everyone. The questions come in thick and fast, with very little time to turn answers around. Staying on top of that workload is an enormous challenge, with long days and sleepless nights an inevitability. It’s much worse if necessary internal systems and processes are not in place.
More than once, I had to burn the midnight oil in order to re-extract, clean, combine, transform and publish data for a last minute query. There’s nothing quite like a potential billion dollar public trade to focus the mind!
Some due diligence requests can seem unreasonable. But the expectation of data access, transparency and legibility is not only reasonable – it’s often a legal obligation.
The importance of data for due diligence can’t be overstated. However, accessible, legible, structured data comes from a well-built data strategy and programme. Get that right and building a well-organised Virtual Data Room becomes simple.
Here are six items you’ll definitely need:
Get this stuff right now and you’ll find yourself always ready for the next funding round. Even more importantly, you’ll profit from data-driven decision making every day.
Don’t underestimate the value investors place on seeing that your company is clearly on top of the data. It speaks volumes.
Irrespective of how you intend or need to use your data, the solution is the same.
Do it once, do it well, automate it from end to end.
My experiences of tackling these challenges motivated us to build kleene.ai. Hiring teams and solving the issues from the ground up gave way to new inspiration. We needed to find a better, quicker and vastly more cost-effective solution.
The kleene platform takes away the engineering complexity and offers complete autonomy to your analysts. Fully automated and lightning fast, it offers 10x the speed to insight and value.
We’ve been through the data for due diligence process over and over again. Need a helping hand? We can guide you through this from start to finish. Please get in touch.
The stakes will rarely be higher, the cost of failure more dramatic or the prize sweeter.
We’d love to show off a bit, so get in touch below.
Do you know the difference when it comes to data professionals? To become a data driven business, your entire...
A few weeks ago, I read Johnny Boufarhat’s Hopin blog post, detailing the incredible journey he and the Hopin...
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.