How It Works

Four stages, one clear path from discovery to signature

Technology transfer fails when the process is vague. Ours is not. Every engagement moves through the same four stages with defined outputs at each gate.

01

Scout

We begin by turning a loosely felt need into a testable specification: performance targets, integration constraints, manufacturing volume, IP requirements, and budget envelope. This step alone changes the outcome, because most failed scouting exercises fail on an imprecise brief rather than a thin market.

We then run the search across startups, spinouts, lab portfolios, and patent filings, make first contact under a neutral banner where useful, and return a shortlist with an honest read on each candidate.

02

Validate

Shortlisted candidates go through structured assessment: technology readiness against your production requirements, IP position and freedom to operate, team depth, financial stability, and cultural fit for a long partnership.

We arrange and sit in on the first technical exchanges under NDA, so both sides can evaluate each other without either giving away more than the stage warrants.

03

Structure

With mutual interest confirmed, we design the deal. Licence, acquisition, joint development, or a hybrid: we model each option against your commercial objectives, benchmark comparable terms in the sector, and produce a term sheet framework.

The point of this stage is to hand both legal teams a document that already reflects a workable commercial logic, rather than a blank page and two sets of assumptions.

04

Close

We stay engaged through negotiation and diligence. In practice this means chasing the open items, translating between corporate process and startup urgency, and restarting conversations when a stakeholder on one side goes quiet for three weeks.

The engagement ends with a signed agreement and a written handover covering what happens in the first ninety days after close.

Why It Works

We speak both languages

Most technology deals do not collapse on the technology. They collapse in the translation gap between a fifty thousand person OEM and a twelve person startup.

  • Neutral facilitation. A third party keeps a deal moving when internal priorities shift on either side.
  • Technical and commercial fluency. We can hold the engineering conversation and the term sheet conversation in the same meeting.
  • Confidentiality discipline. Every disclosure is handled under NDA, with clear boundaries on what is shared and when.
  • Honest calls. If a technology or a match is not going to work, you hear it from us early rather than after six months of diligence.
Stage 01Most engagements begin here, with a written capability specification that makes the search precise.
Stage 03The stage where deals are won or lost. Structure decides whether an agreement survives contact with reality.

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