Due Diligence for Venture Capital Investments

Eliminate risks and uncover opportunities through forensic Due Diligence services for investor-backed SaaS scale-ups.

Assessment against 200+ data and capability points.
Full revenue funnel audit, including benchmarking vs market.
Full data analysis, stakeholder interviews, and asset reviews.
Visual dashboard insights detailing capabilities and fixes to speed up growth plan.
Full written report + recommendations debrief, including a priority roadmap of fixes.
Assessment against 200+ data and capability points
Full revenue funnel audit, including benchmarking vs market
Unlimited weekday support via Slack 
& WhatsApp
Visual dashboard for growth insights and fixes
Lifetime access to recorded calls for ongoing improvement
100+ recommendations on Linkedin
Drive more confident decision-making and ensure your investments deliver returns, at speed.
[ the impact ]

Investors & VCs gain clear visibility of GTM gaps + identify actions to resolve critical growth areas.

Chairs & CEOs improve their commercial operations for performance improvements and/or raising capital.

Boards & VCs uncover key risks and build a roadmap for leadership and operating capabilities.

Hi, I’m Edwin Abl

True, sustainable growth requires focus & accountability.

Hi, I’m Edwin Abl

My purpose as a mentor is to help your leaders support your company's growth. I draw from my extensive experience as a SaaS advisor, a passion for learning, a strong belief in processes and habits, and a commitment to sharing my 15+ years of knowledge.

To learn more about my coaching style and thinking, explore my blog, subscribe to my Weekly Digest newsletter, or delve into my 50+ top articles for growth support. If you believe your leaders could benefit, book a call to connect and discover more.

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Edwin is one of the best out there when it comes to advisory related to go to market / marketing in the enterprise SaaS world — both software and services. He's been invaluable to our team at @Tercera in helping diligence companies and providing super helpful guidance to our portfolio companies. His frameworks, approach and importantly style is engaging and efficient. Super thankful to work with him in prior lives and ongoing as part of his role in our Tercera Advisor Network!

Investment Manager at Octopus Ventures

Adam Said, CFA

Edwin is one of the best out there when it comes to advisory related to go to market / marketing in the enterprise SaaS world - both software and services. He's been invaluable to our team at @Tercera in helping diligence companies and providing super helpful guidance to our portfolio companies. His frameworks, approach and importantly style is engaging and efficient. Super thankful to work with him in prior lives and ongoing as part of his role in our Tercera Advisor Network!

Founder | CEO @ Tercera

Chris Barbin

Edwin was a pleasure to work with and gave excellent go-to-market strategy insights during the due diligence of a B2B SaaS investment we made at Octopus Ventures. He gave tailored advice and recommendations and was not afraid to make out of the box suggestions on S&M org structure and customer acquisition & upsell strategies. I would highly recommend Edwin for GTM Strategy advice and due diligence.

Growth Investor

Oliver Jupp

Ed is encyclopaedic when it comes to the latest go-to-market strategies for B2B SaaS businesses. For me, he is a go-to reference point on all things marketing. With his broad view and deep experience, Ed is able to distill complex concepts down to actionable insights. Ed is a pleasure to work with, generous with his time and his network. He has made a real difference to businesses I am involved with. I always learn something new talking to him.Ed is encyclopaedic when it comes to the latest go-to-market strategies for B2B SaaS businesses. For me, he is a go-to reference point on all things marketing. With his broad view and deep experience, Ed is able to distill complex concepts down to actionable insights. Ed is a pleasure to work with, generous with his time and his network. He has made a real difference to businesses I am involved with. I always learn something new talking to him.

Non-Executive Director, early stage B2B SaaS

Martin Brown

Wouldn't hesitate for a second in recommending Ed after getting to know him during our funding round last year. The DD project undertaken was pretty unique from my perspective in the way that it got the job in hand done, but also really helped me enhance my thinking around things we should be doing at Delio post investment. Often the report output is a means to an end but Ed's work has been something tangible that we've been able utilise going forward. I continue to stay in touch with Ed as we look at other ways of working together at Delio now and in the future.

Chief Executive & Co-Founder at Delio

Gareth Lewis

Edwin has been a delight to work with and exceptionally valuable to the work we do with young companies. He has helped struggling companies to turnaround their challenged marketing strategy, as well as support growing companies to further refine their value proposition. On top of that, he's educated our investment team on what good looks like in sales systems and processes. Edwin also isn't afraid to advise on sectors beyond his classical SaaS experience - something that's very helpful for generalist investors. Thank you Ed!

VC Investor at Mercia Ventures

Alex Gwyther

Ed worked with Evotix from December 2021 to April 2022 to support our marketing team while we established new leadership and engaged and onboarded agencies. Ed provided advice to me (CEO - but effectively acting CMO over this period) and coaching and support to the team collectively and individually. Ed has deep and practical insight into all aspects of marketing and was always available and helpful. He has a framework or template for everything!! We thoroughly enjoyed working with him

CEO at Evotix

Matthew Elson

We engaged Ed to carry out a full Marketing and Sales due diligence. He not only provided us with a honest and frank review of how we are working, but also some fantastic insights and recommendations that have now been embraced by the team.

CEO Social Value Portal

Guy Battle

Key Steps

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Gather Data
Current State Analysis

Compile existing performance data across multiple sources and stakeholder interviews to evaluate GTM strategy, brand, marketing, sales enablement, demand generation, Martech, sales execution and people capabilities.

Assess the findings against a 200+ factor framework, rating the organisation’s effectiveness at each factor on a five-point scale.

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Insights on Findings
Priority Actions & Roadmaps

Review the findings with VCs, boards, or investors on a pre-investment basis to minimise risk, or with Chairmen or CEOs to provide direction for operational improvements. Uncovering your unknown unknowns.

Understand where to narrow the focus, get back on track quickly, learn to do less while improving quality and increase sped of execution. You'll learn the broad scope of B2B GTM – how to orchestrate the programme and activities.

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