Technical Due Diligence

Definitions

1. An assessment of a company's technology stack, codebase quality, architecture, security posture, team capabilities, and technical debt performed before an investment or acquisition. Evaluates whether the technology can scale and support the business plan.

   In plain English: An expert review of a company's technology before investing in or buying it, to check if it's solid or a mess.

   Example: "The VC firm brought in a CTO to do technical due diligence — they found the entire app runs on a single EC2 instance with no backups."

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