[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":733},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Finsights\u002Ftechnical-due-diligence-checklist-for-uae-investors":3,"author:samvel-kocharyan":326,"related:\u002Finsights\u002Ftechnical-due-diligence-checklist-for-uae-investors":341},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":206,"date":278,"description":279,"draft":280,"extension":281,"faq":282,"hero":304,"keywords":307,"meta":312,"metaTitle":313,"navigation":314,"offer":206,"path":315,"pillar":316,"seo":317,"stem":318,"takeaways":319,"updated":324,"__hash__":325},"insights\u002Finsights\u002Ftechnical-due-diligence-checklist-for-uae-investors.md","The 25-item technical due diligence checklist for UAE investors","samvel-kocharyan",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":268},"minimark",[10,17,20,23,28,31,34,38,57,64,68,86,92,96,123,129,133,157,160,165,169,172,176,179,203,207],[11,12,13],"quick-answer",{},[14,15,16],"p",{},"A technical due diligence UAE checklist should cover 25 questions across six areas: architecture, security and data, intellectual property, team, costs, and compliance. It gives angels and VCs a structured way to separate a target with real technical risk from one that just looks unpolished, before a term sheet gets signed.",[14,18,19],{},"The pitch deck always looks clean. The demo always works. What an investor rarely sees before signing is the thing that actually determines whether the company survives its next eighteen months: the state of the codebase, who actually owns it, and whether the team that built it can keep building it. Financial due diligence has a well-worn playbook. Technical due diligence, especially for early-stage companies, too often gets a single call with the founder and a nod at the demo.",[14,21,22],{},"That gap costs investors real money. A startup can have a beautiful product and a fatal architecture problem at the same time. It can have strong revenue and zero clean ownership of its own code. A structured checklist will not replace judgment, but it makes sure the right questions get asked before the wire transfer, not after.",[24,25,27],"h2",{"id":26},"what-is-technical-due-diligence-and-why-does-it-matter-for-uae-investors","What is technical due diligence, and why does it matter for UAE investors?",[14,29,30],{},"Technical due diligence is a structured review of a target company's technology: what was built, how it was built, who owns it, who can maintain it, and what it will cost to keep running or to fix. For a UAE or wider Gulf investor, it carries a few local wrinkles worth naming up front: a market where \".ae domain, offshore shop\" arrangements are common, where PDPL and ICV requirements can gate future government or enterprise revenue, and where the technical talent shortage makes a thin bench a genuinely material risk, not a minor note.",[14,32,33],{},"The 25 items below are organised into six areas: architecture and code, security and data, intellectual property, team, costs and contracts, and compliance. None of them require the investor to read code personally. 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It should be run by someone with real delivery experience, not just a checklist, often a fractional CTO engaged for the review.",{"q":287,"a":288},"How long does a proper technical due diligence review take?","For an early-stage UAE startup, a focused review against a checklist like this one typically takes one to two weeks, including interviews with the technical team and a hands-on look at the codebase and infrastructure.",{"q":290,"a":291},"What is the single biggest red flag in a technical review?","A single founder or contractor who holds all the technical knowledge with nothing documented anywhere. 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