About TechSight
The technical partner on your side of the deal table.
Mission
No More Technical Blind Spots in Software Deals
Software acquisitions are priced on financials and closed on legal terms — but they succeed or fail on technology and the team that builds it. Our mission is to eliminate the technical blind spot in M&A: give deal makers the same rigor on the codebase that they already demand on the balance sheet, then stay to execute on what we find.
How We're Different
We Actually Read the Code
Most technical diligence is a few architecture diagrams and a round of interviews with the target's engineering team — people with every incentive to present well. We start with the artifacts that can't spin a story: the codebase, the infrastructure, the deployment history, the incident record. Then we interview the team, with the code already in hand.
Every finding is translated into deal language: severity, likelihood, and estimated remediation cost. That means our reports feed directly into your negotiation — purchase price adjustments, escrows, holdbacks, earn-out design, and the first-100-days plan.
Every engagement is fixed-price and time-boxed to deal timelines. No open-ended retainers, no report that arrives after the LOI window closes.
Who We Work With
Built for M&A Entities
We partner with the people who run deals, not one-off clients:
- Private equity firms acquiring or rolling up software and tech-enabled companies
- Family offices making direct technology investments without in-house technical staff
- Search funds and independent sponsors who need institutional-grade diligence on a searcher's budget
- M&A advisors and brokers whose sell-side clients need exit readiness and whose deals need to survive buyer diligence
- Strategic acquirers evaluating targets their internal engineering team doesn't have bandwidth to assess
Our domain depth is software — B2B SaaS, tech-enabled services, and the AI systems increasingly at the center of deal theses. We speak both languages: ARR, churn, and quality of earnings on one side; architecture, technical debt, and multi-tenancy on the other.
Our Model
Aligned Incentives, Not Billable Hours
Traditional diligence vendors get paid the same whether the deal thrives or craters. We think that's backwards. Alongside standard fixed-fee engagements and deal-flow retainers, we offer structures where our compensation rides on the outcome: fee-plus-equity in the acquired company, co-investment alongside the sponsor, or a technical operating partner role through the hold period.
When we tell you a platform can support your investment thesis, we're willing to bet on it with you. When we deliver a first-100-days technical plan, we're willing to be the ones accountable for executing it. That alignment is the difference between a vendor and a partner.