For example, a seed investor could set a geography of interest to produce a diligence list for a market analysis while excluding all companies that have already raised their Series A. With all the talk of bubbles recently in Silicon Valley, CrunchBase has built out their own metric for determining the relative rise and fall of startups.
In addition, banks must exercise an extra level of due diligence for a "politically exposed person".
As an intellectual-property attorney, the firm I work for was recently asked to perform some due diligence for a client considering a seven-figure investment in a young technology company.
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"A period of due diligence for all parties, including the FA Premier League, has now been entered".
Talking to companies that your investor has previously put money into is pretty normal due diligence for a startup.
In 1986 the International Council of Museums adopted a code of professional ethics that insists on due diligence for every item entering a collection.
In such cases CSR is not a public-relations exercise but part of systematic due diligence for new investments.
Peggy Aguayo, the owner of Aguayo & Huebener, a Brooklyn real estate agency, said, "Everyone always wants to know what's going on their block, and as a broker, it's my duty to do the due diligence for them".
So it's due diligence for Mountain View to at least take a closer look at BlackBerry's patents.
