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Welcome Veronika!
We are delighted to announce the appointment of - Veronika Bauer to the DataDiligence team. Veronika is an experienced data science...
Feb 6, 20231 min read


Why settle for 5?
In the game of scrabble, the word ‘data’ has a score of just 5. Not too impressive to be honest. In the world of business - however -...
Feb 2, 20232 min read


Chasing change: 2022 year in review
A new year! Same challenges. And a few new ones - to boot! We can't wait to get our teeth into 2023 and support our clients in...
Jan 19, 20231 min read


We're growing & hiring
We never take our role as employers lightly. It's a huge responsibility - especially as we hear news of huge lay offs at Big Tech...
Nov 16, 20222 min read


'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!...
Nov 3, 20222 min read


Evolving data due diligence
Two years ago, DataDiligence created a new category of due diligence – the assessment of Data Assets to better inform investment...
Oct 20, 20222 min read


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...
Oct 5, 20222 min read


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 –...
Sep 21, 20221 min read


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...
Aug 31, 20221 min read


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...
Aug 17, 20222 min read


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...
Aug 3, 20221 min read


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...
Jul 20, 20221 min read


"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...
Jul 13, 20221 min read


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...
Jul 6, 20222 min read


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...
Jun 29, 20222 min read


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 &...
Jun 22, 20221 min read


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...
Jun 15, 20221 min read


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...
May 18, 20221 min read


Lost in translation
"Data science is a composite of a number of pre-existing disciplines," so Wikipedia tells us — including data engineering, maths,...
Apr 27, 20221 min read


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...
Apr 13, 20221 min read


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...
Apr 5, 20221 min read


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...
Mar 8, 20222 min read


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,...
Mar 1, 20221 min read


The new leverage
What never depletes? Never wears out? And can be used across an unlimited number of use cases? Data. Data – be it a client list,...
Feb 22, 20222 min read
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