Investor Analysis and Research
Investor Analysis and Research forms part of Scianta Intelligence’s Investor Services program. Drawing on our experience as the founder, chief executive, and chief scientist of several software companies since the 1970’s, as well as our extensive hands-on experience in designing, developing, and delivering advanced commercial systems in computational intelligence across a very wide spectrum of industries and applications we can provide first stage and mezzanine stage investors with both a broad perspective on a company’s technological assets as well as a deep understanding of how company management and its technologies will fare in today's highly competitive and rapidly changing business environment.
From our analysis of an emerging company’s business plan and management capabilities we can provide a balanced assessments of the enterprise’s
- Value propositions
- Capitalization requirements
- Candidate clients and market share estimates
- Competitor rankings – differentials, cost/benefits, ROI, and opportunity cost
- Entrance and sustainability hurdles
- Capitalization needs weighted by risk
From a more fundamental approach, we provide investors with a complete and thorough technology analysis of candidate companies, including such critical factors as,
- Patent search and trade-secret appraisals
- Key technology assessment
- Key individual interviews and assessment
- Risk assessments – niche markets, technology competitive evaluation and window of opportunity
- Product robustness
- Architecture and system objective analysis
- Technology business plan review and analysis
- Ability to execute on technology track
For highly complex and evolutionary technologies as well as for investment situations requiring extreme care or risk management, Scianta Intelligence uses a Delphi approach to gain expert consensus on a broad range of factors (such as market forecasts, company viability, multi-faceted risk, capitalization needs.) A Delphi analysis involves a consortium of highly skilled and well qualified technologists and business executives whose expertise is brought to bear on evaluating technology, technologists, and the technology-driven marketplace. TOP
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