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In Tech Due Diligence, It’s Not About Perfect. It’s About Risk.

Beyond M&A

Like we’re there to tell them if their architecture is worthy of praise—or punishment. It took me years to understand that sentence deeply. Now I live by it. In Tech Due Diligence, especially in fast-moving deals, founders often expect us to play judge and jury. That’s not the point. Every team has gaps. Every stack has skeletons.

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FINBOURNE integrates with Anthropic’s Claude to provide AI agent offering

The TRADE

Tom McHugh The partnership leverages Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude, and combines its Model Context Protocol (MCP) with FINBOURNE’s APIs to securely allow AI agents to access live investment data, automate workflows and take real-time action across complex financial situations.

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We had a few early contractors who never signed IP assignment agreements. How big of an issue is that during due diligence, and what can we do now to fix it?

iMerge Advisors

If the individual wrote core code or designed foundational architecture, the risk is higher. How Big of a Problem Is It, Really? The severity depends on several factors: Materiality of the contractors contribution. Time elapsed since the work was done.

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What should I include in a Confidential Information Memorandum (CIM)?

iMerge Advisors

Products and Technology Overview of core products or services Technology stack and architecture Product roadmap and innovation pipeline Intellectual property (IP) and proprietary assets For SaaS and software companies, this section is critical. For founder-led businesses, this section often carries emotional weight and strategic importance.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations.

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Investing in Spatial Computing:

Beyond M&A

Scalability Reviews : Ensuring technical architectures support long-term investment goals. Companies like PixelMax (immersive workspaces), The Boundary (architectural visualisation), and Proprio Vision (healthcare imaging) exemplify the innovation potential outside the mainstream spotlight.

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Wall Street strategist Tom Lee is aiming to create the MicroStrategy of Ethereum

CNBC: Investing

"Underneath the stablecoin industry is Ethereum – that is really the backbone and architecture of stablecoins so it's important to create a project that accumulates Ethereum to essentially protect and have some influence on the network."

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Best Practices for Deploying & Scaling Embedded Analytics

Read more about how to simplify the deployment and scalability of your embedded analytics, along with important considerations for your: Environment Architecture: An embedded analytics architecture is very similar to a typical web architecture. Deployment: Benefits and drawbacks of hosting on premises or in the cloud.

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Modern Data Architecture for Embedded Analytics

Every data-driven project calls for a review of your data architecture—and that includes embedded analytics. Before you add new dashboards and reports to your application, you need to evaluate your data architecture with analytics in mind. 9 questions to ask yourself when planning your ideal architecture.