AI-Powered Team Due Diligence

Startup Team Due Diligence
Know the Team Before You Invest

Uncover co-founder conflict, commitment gaps, and hidden tensions that reference calls and gut instinct miss.

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Assessments completed

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Teams with hidden red flags

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Risk patterns detected

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Standard DD vs ETA Scan

Standard DD
DD + ETA Scan
Product-market fit
Revenue & traction
Competitive landscape
Co-founder alignment
Commitment levels
Hidden tensions
THE HIDDEN RISK

The #1 Startup Killer
Isn't Product. It's the Team.

65%

of startup failures trace back to team issues

Research by Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman in The Founder's Dilemmas

£500K+

typical seed investment at risk per deal

UK VC data

1 in 3

teams have at least one hidden red flag

ETA data, 20K+ assessments

What goes undetected
Founders on the edge of burnout with no recovery plan
Commitment gaps hidden behind impressive titles
Risk-averse founders clashing with bold visionaries
Conflicting product visions pulling the team apart
Interpersonal tensions brewing under the surface
Misaligned long-term visions and exit goals

Traditional due diligence covers markets, traction, and competition, but misses the biggest risk factor entirely. These patterns are invisible in pitch decks and reference calls.

ETA Scan detects all of the above.

Our AI-powered assessment surfaces these hidden team risks in 24 hours, so you know before you invest, not after.

HOW IT WORKS

Three Steps to Confident Decisions

From questionnaire to actionable risk report — in under 24 hours.

01

Founders Fill Questionnaire

Each co-founder answers independently about equity splits, time commitment, role clarity, and past conflicts — without seeing each other's responses.

~15 min per founder
02

AI Cross-Reference Analysis

ETA Scan's AI cross-references each founder's answers, flagging contradictions, misaligned expectations, and hidden tensions across 25+ risk patterns.

Automated in seconds
03

Risk Report Delivered

You receive a clear breakdown showing exactly where founders disagree, which risks are critical, and specific questions to address before investing.

Actionable insights
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FOR INVESTORS

Make Smarter Investment Decisions

Add a structured team diligence layer to your process.

Catch what pitch decks and reference calls miss.

De-Risk Every Deal

Quantified team risk scores across 25+ patterns give you objective data before you commit capital.

See What Others Miss

Surface hidden tensions, commitment gaps, and co-founder misalignment invisible to standard DD.

Save Hours of Diligence

Replace weeks of gut-feel calls with a structured 15-minute assessment that delivers in 24 hours.

Benchmark Teams Objectively

Compare founding teams across your pipeline with consistent, data-driven risk metrics.

Integrates with your current workflow. No new platforms, easy to set up.
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TRUSTED BY INVESTORS

What Our Clients Say

"ETA Technologies' assessment provides us with invaluable insights into the strengths of management teams, which will allow us to make more data-driven decisions."
Ed StevensonSFC Capital

Ed Stevenson

Investment Executive, SFC Capital

"The detailed insights outlined in the founder assessments provided by ETA Technologies were incredibly useful in identifying areas of development for founders."
Cait PilkingtonBlock Dojo

Cait Pilkington

Dealflow Director

"I became convinced of the value of the assessment after it accurately "predicted" the breakup with my former co-founder. That experience was the key reason we decided to incorporate the assessment into our process."
Vasily AlekseenkoRare Founders

Vasily Alekseenko

Founder & CEO

WHAT WE DETECT

25+ Risk Patterns Analyzed

Trained on thousands of team assessments to identify the subtle patterns that predict dysfunction.

Burnout Potential

Detect founders nearing exhaustion before it derails the company

Commitment Gaps

Identify part-time mindsets hiding behind full-time promises

Vision Alignment

Surface conflicting goals between co-founders

Operational Flags

Spot weak execution patterns and role confusion

Experience Gaps

Assess whether the team can handle what's ahead

Co-founder Chemistry

Measure trust, communication quality, and resilience

Risk Tolerance

Find mismatches in risk appetite that cause paralysis

Product Vision

Detect disagreements on what to build and when to pivot

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