Technical Due Diligence Checklist for Investors

Technology Team and Structure

• Understand organization chart and team roles (Developers, QA, Product Owners, Designers, DevOps).
• Assess contractor/outsourcing usage, roles, and locations.
• Identify key vendor/contractor contacts and responsibilities.
• Check employee satisfaction surveys, turnover rates, and work-from-home policies.
• Review virtual office tools, training budgets, and recent conferences.
• Confirm roles of IT Security and Data Protection Officers.
• Verify background checks, security training, and immigration status.

Technology Products/Applications

• Understand API/application details: name, purpose, status, user types, and architecture.
• Review internationalization, localization, and multi-currency support.
• Examine user documentation, re-architecting plans, and tech stack (including versions).
• Review feature flag mechanisms, logging, performance monitoring, and security protocols.
• Check user authentication, password policies, encryption, and vulnerability protections.

Infrastructure and Operations

• Assess hosting environments, vendors, system instances, and plans for re-architecting.
• Review CDN, virtualization, server configurations, and security measures (e.g., MFA, anti-virus).
• Confirm disaster recovery, backup procedures, incident response plans, and growth planning.
• Check production data store sizes, bandwidth usage, and growth projections.

Development and Release Process

• Understand development methodologies, process management, tooling, and continuous improvement practices.
• Review defect tracking, code reviews, automated testing, and source control.
• Confirm CI/CD processes, deployment frequency, rollback procedures, and post-release monitoring.
• Assess business success metrics, source control systems, and deployment strategies.

Corporate IT and Compliance

• Complete corporate tech/software inventory and management responsibilities.
• Verify password management practices and IP ownership/licensing status.
• Review legal actions, required certifications, and compliance responsibilities.
• Confirm availability of key documentation: product architecture, API docs, infrastructure diagrams, and audit reports.