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Chelsea Wilkinson
- Nov 3
- 2 min
'Sticking to their knitting' - investing masterclass by Hg's Matthew Brockman
Reflections on the Dry Powder podcast It’s not so long ago that AI and data science were at the top of every CEO’s Christmas toy list!...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Oct 19
- 2 min
Evolving data due diligence
Two years ago, DataDiligence created a new category of due diligence – the assessment of Data Assets to better inform investment...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Oct 4
- 2 min
Data is a risk to mitigate & opportunity to realise in all M&A
‘Data’ goes way beyond bits and bytes, a customer list, or production line feed. Data is an ecosystem of interdependent and...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Sep 20
- 1 min
Tesla: automaker or data company?
Famously, Uber is the world’s largest taxi business – but doesn’t own any taxis. Airbnb is the world’s largest accommodation provider –...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Aug 30
- 1 min
From Data to Insights Monetisation
Intuitively, we all know that data is valuable. After all, our inboxes and news feeds are cluttered with headlines such as: ‘data is the...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Aug 16
- 2 min
A founder's journey
“I love talking with founders! They always have an exciting view of the world, and their motivators fascinate me.” These were the opening...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Aug 2
- 1 min
Every deal is a data deal
Data is a modern value premium in every business – fuelling solutions, innovation, and performance. As such, data requires a fair...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Jul 19
- 1 min
The data premium
The data landscape is expanding. Rapidly. In 2020, 64.2 zettabytes of data were created or replicated, which is forecast to experience a...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Jul 12
- 1 min
"What value does data present to investors?"
Has been a burning question at the heart of DataDiligence since our inception. Over the past year (and as the volume of our data due...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Jul 5
- 2 min
Use case 101
Use case. It’s one of those phrases which has swept across the business lexicon, hot on the heels of ‘low-hanging fruit’, ‘agile’, and...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Data is a CEO opportunity
In the earliest days of DataDiligence, Adam Votava and I wrote a manifesto. A collection of principles we believed in, to guide and...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Jun 21
- 1 min
What questions are investors asking about data in the due diligence process?
Consider this: 🤔 Dry powder (unspent commitments to private equity funds) reached US$3.4 trillion globally in 2021, according to Bain &...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Jun 14
- 1 min
Watch out world!
Holding your first company offsite is a big thing for a start up. Holding your first company offsite - when the team has NEVER physically...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- May 18
- 1 min
Welcome to the team, Hongya Liang!
DataDiligence - and data science more broadly - is highly collaborative. We love to share ideas, insights & methodologies. Which is why...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Apr 26
- 1 min
Lost in translation
"Data science is a composite of a number of pre-existing disciplines," so Wikipedia tells us — including data engineering, maths,...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Apr 12
- 1 min
10 data due diligences in Q1 2022
'Every deal is a tech deal,' said Heather Mitchell of The Carlyle Group, in May 2021. At DataDiligence, we would argue that every deal is...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Apr 4
- 1 min
Building our team: appointment of Zbigniew Peplinski
DataDiligence is delighted to announce the appointment of Zbigniew Peplinski - who joins our consulting team of data experts. Having...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Mar 8
- 2 min
The potential for data to make (or break) a PE deal has never been greater than it is today
Around this time each year, I wait with bated breath for Bain & Company’s Annual Private Equity Report. (You’re right, I don’t get out...
Chelsea Wilkinson
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Data Maturity Survey - calling participants!
As the famous adage goes: Knowledge is power. But, when it comes to the burgeoning world of data and data science – comprehensive,...