Technical and cybersecurity diligence on engineering-heavy targets — and the delivery bench to act on what we find.
Most tech-DD providers can read a SaaS codebase. Far fewer can assess an embedded product line, an industrial control estate, or an IEC 62443 exposure — and put a remediation number against it that survives contact with the deal model. Crest works engineering-heavy and OT-heavy deals across the lifecycle: pre-LOI screens, confirmatory diligence, first-100-days execution, hold-period value creation and exit preparation.
Where Crest plugs into the deal
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Pre-LOI
Red-flag technical screen from data-room material and management sessions — days, not weeks.
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Diligence
Full technical and cybersecurity DD: architecture, code, team, IEC 62443/OT exposure, remediation costs.
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First 100 days
Remediation of deal-breaker findings, security quick wins, engineering-organisation stabilisation.
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Hold period
Modernisation roadmaps, cloud and data cost-out, compliance uplift, GCC/BOT capability build.
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Exit
Vendor DD preparation: clean compliance posture and a defensible technology story for buyers.
Technical & Cybersecurity Due Diligence
Deal-speed assessment of targets most DD providers can't read.
When the target builds embedded products, runs industrial control systems, or sells into standards-governed markets, generalist tech DD misses the risks that matter: firmware supply chains, OT network exposure, certification obligations baked into customer contracts, and engineering teams whose knowledge lives in three heads.
Crest runs confirmatory diligence with practising engineers — architecture and code-quality review, IEC 62443/IACS cybersecurity gap assessment, engineering team and process maturity, and technical-debt quantification. Findings arrive as risk flags with remediation-cost estimates that plug straight into the model: what it costs to fix, how long it takes, and whether it changes the thesis.
Why Crest
We assess embedded and industrial control systems with the same depth generalists bring to web stacks — because building and certifying those systems is our core business.
Post-Acquisition Value Creation
The findings memo, executed — during the hold period.
Diligence findings only matter if someone fixes them. Crest packages its digital engineering, cloud & data and compliance capabilities for the hold period: modernisation roadmaps sequenced by valuation impact, cost-out through cloud migration and data-platform consolidation, and compliance uplift — ISO 9001, IEC 62443 — that removes discount factors before exit.
The through-line is valuation: every workstream is framed as protecting or expanding multiple at exit, with progress reported in terms an IC recognises — run-rate savings, risk retired, certifications achieved, engineering velocity.
Why Crest
The same firm that flagged the risk carries the fix — no translation loss between the diligence report and the delivery team.
GCC / BOT Setup for Portfolio Companies
Stand up a Bengaluru engineering capability inside a portfolio company — using the model Crest itself runs.
For portfolio companies where engineering cost or capacity is the value-creation lever, Crest builds an India Global Capability Centre using its own UK–Bengaluru delivery model as the template: entity setup, leadership hiring, talent acquisition in the Bengaluru market, quality and security processes, and governance back to the portfolio company's HQ.
Under a Build-Operate-Transfer structure, Crest carries the execution risk: we build the centre, operate it to agreed SLAs and quality gates, and transfer entity, team and processes at a pre-agreed trigger — headcount, tenure or performance milestones. The portfolio company gets the capability; the fund gets a de-risked path to a structurally lower cost base that survives the exit story.
Why Crest
This is not advisory theory — it is the delivery model Crest runs for its own clients, offered as a build-out service. Few PE-facing tech advisors have it in-house.
Under exclusivity with a technical target?
Red-flag screens run in days; full confirmatory DD fits standard deal windows. Send a short note on the target's technology profile and we'll confirm scope, team and timeline within one working day.