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Does the technology work as claimed?
Examine technical evidence, scientific support, demonstrated performance and the distinction between current capabilities and proposed future performance.
Scientific & Technical Due Diligence for Investors
Understand what you're investing in.
Test the assumptions.
Invest with clarity.
Independent scientific and technical due diligence for investors evaluating companies, technologies, biotechnology, intellectual property, research platforms and opportunities where the investment thesis depends on specialized evidence.
What this means
The investment thesis may depend on technical facts that deserve independent scrutiny.
Investors routinely encounter opportunities where the most important questions cannot be answered through financial analysis alone. The value of a company may depend on whether a technology works as described, whether a scientific claim is supported by the evidence, or whether a development path is technically realistic.
Management presentations, technical documents, patents, scientific literature and expert opinions can provide substantial information without necessarily resolving those questions. The challenge is understanding how the pieces fit together and which assumptions actually matter to the investment decision.
reynarun provides an independent scientific and technical assessment of those underlying assumptions. The objective is not to replace financial, legal or commercial diligence, but to provide the technical understanding required to evaluate an investment thesis responsibly.
Questions we address
Determine what the technical facts mean for the investment.
Scientific and technical diligence can be structured around a company, technology, platform, intellectual property portfolio, research program, development opportunity or specific investment thesis.
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How strong is the underlying evidence?
Evaluate scientific literature, experimental results, technical documentation, competing interpretations and important limitations.
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What assumptions support the thesis?
Identify technical, scientific and development assumptions that materially influence the proposed opportunity or expected outcome.
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What should the investor understand before proceeding?
Distill the technical findings into the issues, uncertainties and evidence that matter most to the investment decision.
Diligence capability
Evaluate the technology beneath the investment story.
Investment diligence is most useful when it separates demonstrated capability from assumptions and connects technical findings directly to the investment thesis. reynarun focuses on the scientific and technical questions that can materially affect that thesis.
Science & evidence
Scientific rationale, published literature, experimental findings, evidence quality, reproducibility, technical claims and competing interpretations.
Technology & feasibility
Technical architecture, demonstrated performance, development requirements, dependencies, scalability assumptions and practical constraints.
Investment relevance
Identify which scientific and technical findings materially affect the opportunity, the assumptions behind the thesis and the information that could change the decision.
Where it applies
Scientific and technical diligence across technology-driven investments.
The scope can be tailored to the investment. A focused engagement may answer one critical technical question; a broader diligence effort can evaluate the scientific and technical foundations of an entire investment thesis.
reynarun can work alongside an investor's existing legal, financial, commercial and market diligence to provide an independent technical perspective.
Technology companies
Assess technical capabilities, development assumptions, platform
performance and technology claims.
Biotechnology & life sciences
Evaluate scientific rationale, evidence, development assumptions
and translational or technical feasibility.
Emerging technologies
Examine whether proposed technologies can achieve the capabilities
required for their intended applications.
Intellectual property & platforms
Evaluate the technical significance, dependencies and practical
implications of technology and platform claims.
Growth & venture investments
Provide independent technical perspective when future value
depends on scientific or technology development.
Acquisitions & strategic transactions
Support technical diligence for transactions involving technology,
research programs or specialized intellectual property.
Experience behind the work
Independent technical judgment built through years of complex work.
reynarun is the current firm through which this work is being delivered and expanded. Its foundation is the scientific, technical, research and advisory work conducted through Continuum beginning in 2018.
Led by Jeremy Gawryluk, PhD, the work has involved technically complex environments where evaluating evidence, understanding technology and connecting specialized information to larger decisions were central to the engagement.
That experience now forms the basis of reynarun's investment diligence capability: providing investors with an independent technical perspective when the quality of the investment decision depends on understanding what the technology or science can actually support.
The role is to make the technical picture clearer so the investment decision can be better informed.
How diligence works
Focus the diligence on what can change the investment decision.
Technical diligence should not become an exhaustive technical report that obscures the investment question. The process is designed to identify the evidence and assumptions that actually matter.
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Frame
Understand the investment thesis, opportunity, available materials and the scientific or technical questions that matter.
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Investigate
Examine evidence, technical claims, assumptions, dependencies, limitations and relevant external information.
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Assess
Determine what has been demonstrated, what remains uncertain and which technical issues materially affect the thesis.
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Report
Deliver a clear scientific and technical assessment focused on the findings most relevant to the investment decision.
Evaluating an investment where the technology matters?
Tell us what you're considering and what technical questions need to be answered.