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Feb 2, 20232 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 -...
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Jan 19, 20231 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...
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Nov 16, 20222 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...
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Nov 3, 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!...
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Oct 19, 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...
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Oct 4, 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...
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Sep 20, 20221 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 –...
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Aug 30, 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...
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Aug 16, 20222 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...
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Aug 2, 20221 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...
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Jul 19, 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...
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Jul 12, 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...
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Jul 5, 20222 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...
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Jun 28, 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...
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Jun 21, 20221 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 &...
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Jun 14, 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...
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May 18, 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...
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Apr 26, 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,...
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Apr 12, 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...
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Apr 4, 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...
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Mar 8, 20222 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...
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Mar 1, 20221 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,...
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Feb 22, 20222 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,...
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Feb 16, 20222 min read
If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up some place else!
Data is powering our economy. And businesses are using data to make better decisions, refine operations and create new revenue streams....
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