Team Intelligence
An anonymised, investor-facing profile of the leadership team, behavioural rather than biographical, surfacing alignment and friction before they show up in a board meeting or a hold-period review.
See Team Intelligence →Know the risk before you know the deal.
Six pillars, calibrated to every deal, not templated for all of them, so you see the risk that generic frameworks miss.
- Owner dependency
- Team performance
- Margin quality
- Legacy tech exposure
- Compliance exposure
- Customer concentration
Investors evaluating SME acquisitions and growth-capital targets are often working from frameworks built for a different asset class entirely, or from checklists that treat every SME the same regardless of sector, scale, or maturity. Either approach misses the risk that actually determines outcomes.
Vaeliou's six pillars stay constant across every evaluation, but the weighting doesn't. Each assessment is calibrated to the deal in front of you, not templated from the last one, so what surfaces is the risk specific to that business, not a generic checklist result.
Six pillars, calibrated to the deal
The same structure applied to every evaluation, covering company, team, financial health, technology, legal & compliance, and market opportunity, with weighting that shifts to fit the deal in front of you.
Company
Business model, economics, and operations, assessed as a whole before any single pillar is weighted.
Team Due Diligence
Ownership dependency, role clarity, and continuity risk through a transition.
Financial Health
Margin quality, cash conversion, and earnings that hold up under scrutiny.
Technology Evaluation
Systems, infrastructure, and technical debt inherited with the business.
Legal & Compliance
Contracts, obligations, and exposure that don't surface in a headline number.
Market Opportunity
Competitive position, demand durability, and room to grow.
The six pillars stay constant; the weighting shifts with the deal. Sector, scale, and maturity all change where the risk actually sits.
A small, multidisciplinary team with deep sector and transaction experience, spanning legal, technology, finance, and strategy.
Evaluate more targets without adding headcount.
Structured due diligence in place of ad hoc, manual review.
The same rigour, every time.
Consistency isn't dependent on who's running the evaluation.
Built to surface what generic frameworks miss.
This isn't confirmation of what you already suspected. It's the risk you hadn't seen yet.
Built on European infrastructure, with genuine data sovereignty and complete white-labelling.
Two ways investors stay informed, without asking
Strategic Growth Capability
A shared view of where a portfolio company's growth capability really sits, turned into a leadership-owned growth execution plan. Results reach you through the company's own quarterly reporting, without a separate line to manage.
See Strategic Growth Capability →After the deal closes
Due diligence tells you what to invest in. AHQ Insights tells you how it's performing once you have, covering covenant tracking, portfolio KPI roll-ups, and LP reporting that updates automatically from the portfolio company's own numbers.
See AHQ Insights →A secure room for the transaction itself
Once due diligence points to a deal worth pursuing, Vaeliou's Data Room handles the rest, covering secure document exchange, contracting and change of control.
See the Data Room →What it costs
Pricing for Team Intelligence and Strategic Growth Capability, in one place.
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