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Mergers and Acquisitions

BOOSTING MARKET VALUE

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 

ADVANCED PRODUCT GO TO MARKET

EXCLUSIVE INSIGHT

See what we’re telling your peers about AI.

Everyone has a slide deck about AI. We provide actionable architecture insights and margin impact analysis grounded in active technical diligence. Stop guessing.

TECH INVESTOR?

We regularly work with Private Equity and late stage Venture Capital investors

LEADING A TECHNOLOGY GROUP?

Our Thought Source Uplift service has been developed to turbo charge your team and impress your board

Delighting our clients around the world since 2006

Our client base is global, from technology creators to large enterprise product companies.  VC and PE firms love working with us to provide help within their portfolios and advise on potential investment direction.

Scott Peoples

Working with Thought Source on M&A technical due diligence, deal management and business integration has been excellent! They have become experts in our highly specialised industry and they have proven time-and-time again that they are not just advisors, but doers.

Scott Peoples

Chief Acquisition Officer, Navis

Bruno Stanziale

The Thought Source team worked wonders for our company.  I’m looking forward to our next engagement.

Bruno Stanziale

CEO, GoToro

Al Zollar

Deep, nimble and accurate! That’s why I use this team!!

Al Zollar

Board Member of BNY Mellon, Nasdaq, IBM, GCOM Software

Peter Frintzilas

The team at Thought Source have been great long term partners.  They have immersed themselves in our product portfolio, our team, and our wider market which allows them to understand and align our deal objectives with the M&A due diligence process they execute for us.

Peter Frintzilas

CEO, TeamSnap

Rob Dillon

I relied on Thought Source to manage and execute on the complicated divestiture of Navis from Cargotec. They project managed everything from sale readiness, buyer due diligence, and the global carve-out of business systems and worldwide entities. Thought Source were 100% available, reliable and a true extension of our team.

Rob Dillon

CFO, Navis

THOUGHT SOURCE NEWS

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Technical Due Diligence

IGEL partners with Thought Source for Stratodesk acquisition

Thought Source provided technical due diligence to support IGEL's acquisition of Stratodesk, ensuring a secure and scalable integration of endpoint OS solutions.

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Technical Due Diligence

Thought Source supports major AI platform acquisition by DigitalOcean

Thought Source was engaged by DigitalOcean to assess Paperspace’s infrastructure and readiness for scaled AI workloads—helping de-risk a critical expansion into GPU and AI compute services.

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Divestment & Transformation Execution

Thought Source leads sell-side diligence and global carve-out execution for Navis divestment

As Cargotec divested Navis to a private equity buyer, Thought Source ran the carve-out execution—driving program delivery, systems separation, and TSA readiness across global operations.

FOCUSED SECTORS

We have diverse experience in specific business sectors that invest, build, are enabled and powered by technology

INDUSTRIAL, TRANSPORT & RESOURCES

Printing, packaging, shipping, logistics and natural resources

TECHNOLOGY PRODUCT COMPANIES

Enterprise software, security and infrastructure

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Banking, payments, pension plans and superannuation

 

HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

University IT, infrastructure and teaching delivery technology

Our Services

Technology-Focused M&A Services

TECHNICAL DUE DILIGENCE Reviews

Fast, clear insights into technology, product, and architecture risks

We deliver deep technical assessments across platforms, codebases, customer sentiment, and business workflows to support smart deal decisions — fast.

OPEN SOURCE RISK REVIEW

Identify issues — and exactly how to fix them

We go beyond basic scans. Our in-house tooling and experts uncover OSS license and security risks and deliver prioritized, actionable fixes — so your team knows what to do next.

POST-MERGER INTEGRATION

Execute integration with clarity, speed, and measurable outcomes

We lead integration planning and execution across product, engineering, and ops — aligning systems, teams, and strategy to realize acquisition value.

Technology Strategy and transformation

TECH STRATEGY & TRANSFORMATION

Shape the future of your tech — and deliver it.

We help define target state architecture, build execution roadmaps, and embed with your team to drive delivery of scalable, modern platforms. 

Product Marketing & GTM Activation

Craft messaging that resonates — and activates.

We create differentiated positioning and work side-by-side with your team to deploy GTM assets, content, and campaigns that fuel pipeline. 

Competitive intelligence

Outpace disruption with real-time insights.

From market scans, product analysis to win/loss intel, we help you stay ahead — and work with your team to adapt roadmap and strategy in real time.

Value Creation

Find the right levers — then make them move with decisiveness.

We uncover where value lies in product, ops, and GTM — then embed to help you execute cost takeout, growth bets, and structural upgrades.

Go To Market strategy

Build GTM clarity — and bring it to life.

We define segments, pricing, motion, and positioning — and embed alongside your team to align delivery, marketing, and sales.

AI-Led Transformation

Future-proof your tech with embedded AI strategy.

We identify where AI can deliver true value, then help your team design, implement, and scale AI capabilities that boost valuation.

Contact us now to discuss your next project

FREE DOWNLOAD

DOWNLOAD OUR FULL TECH DUE DILIGENCE CHECKLIST

Find out what makes acquirers cheer and targets cry.

Download our full technology due diligence request list to find out what we ask a target company to provide during a technical due diligence M&A project.

Our Leadership

Leading each of our engagements is always one of our technologist leaders

Andrew Borzycki

Andrew Borzycki

Partner

Adam Jaques

Adam Jaques

Partner

Luke Silcock

Luke Silcock

Partner

With decades of experience around the world consulting and working directly as executives for some of technology’s largest companies, our partners have amazing breadth from building and bringing to market technology products, strategic mergers and acquisitions all the way to helping clients develop technology strategies with the right analysis, level headed planning and best-of-breed technology integration.

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ARTICLES

Articles about what we love

AI and ML in Technology Due Diligence

It is vital to understand how a company uses AI and ML in Technology Due Diligence to ensure you get the value and substance of what you are seeking in a technology acquisition.

Selling your tech company? 5 Tech Due Diligence mistakes that kill deals

There is a duty of disclosure owed to the potential acquirer, which sets the scene for a productive encounter. However, in our experience performing tech DD at Thought Source, we are astounded at how many CEOs, technology leaders or representative bankers try to purposefully obstruct the tech due diligence process.

6 key tech due diligence questions to ask for strategic acquisitions in 2024

If you are a tech company acquirer undertaking tech due diligence there is a lot of information to analyze. Here are 6 key questions to ask the target that will help you decide to proceed or abandon the deal.

ARE YOU A TECH INVESTOR?

We regularly work with Private Equity and late stage Venture Capital investors

INTRODUCING

THE DUE DILIGENCE SHOW

The Thought Source team have produced a video series covering the "behind the scenes" of performing technical due diligence for M&A projects.

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