By: Troy
AI Due Diligence in 2025: Separating Real Innovation from Marketing Hype
October 28, 2025Every pitch deck now mentions AI. Every product roadmap includes “AI-powered features.” Every founding team claims they’re “leveraging machine learning to…
Read MoreThe Hidden Killer of Early-Stage Startups: Why Customer Discovery Failures Doom Most Ventures
September 30, 2025*And how smart founders are solving the participant recruitment problem* The statistics are sobering: 70% of startups fail not because of…
Read MoreFour Days to Technical Truth: Our Rapid Assessment Methodology
September 21, 2025“Can you evaluate their technology stack by Friday? We need an answer before the weekend.” Not an ask you want to…
Read MoreBeyond the Hype: Smarter Investing in Biotech Startups
July 9, 2025Biotech promises massive returns—but only for those who do their homework. Here’s a due diligence blueprint, and how firms like Osparna…
Read MoreI asked AI
March 27, 2025We know that AI is going to impact due diligence – approach, analysis, and data collection. Assuming that is true, I…
Read MoreWhisper.AI, Fabric, Ollama & llama 3
September 8, 2024Osparna has been utilizing Open Source Software tools to analyze the decision making process in our company. One way we do…
Read MoreTechnology Due Diligence By Builders
August 3, 2024In addition to engaging in Technology Due Diligence, Osparna is a team of builders. Likely many, what we build is often…
Read MoreThe Great Reconfiguration
April 27, 2020Like many of you, we at Osparna have spent the past number of weeks processing the situation and trying to ensure…
Read MoreManaging Bias
February 3, 2020Let me paint you a scenario. Imagine this, when Pat was new to investing in private companies, back in 2008, the…
Read MoreInvestments are predictions about the future
January 22, 2020Making an investment is inherently a prediction about the future. The future of culture and consumption. The future of markets, teams…
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