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Governance and compliance
- Security and compliance questionnaireThe questions enterprise buyers and late stage investors ask, in the order they ask them. Answer once, keep it current, and a security review stops costing you a quarter.DOCX · Sign in to download · Series A, Series B+
- Board committee chartersAudit and compensation committees: who sits on them, what they decide alone and what they only recommend. A committee with no written remit becomes a rubber stamp or a second board.DOCX · Sign in to download · Series B+
- Internal control and governance handbookDelegation of authority, financial control, conduct and speaking up. Auditors and acquirers test whether a policy operates, not whether it exists.DOCX · Sign in to download · Series B+
- Compliance and licensing registerEvery requirement, why it applies to you and the evidence for it. What is tested at Series B is not whether you hold every certificate but whether you know which ones apply.XLSX · Sign in to download · Series A, Series B+
- IP portfolio registerRegistrations, renewals and the unregistered assets that carry most of the value. Registration is the visible part and assignment is the part that fails diligence.XLSX · Sign in to download · Series A, Series B+
- Key person insuranceCover on somebody whose absence would damage the business, often required from Series B. The money buys time, and where the exposure can be reduced instead, reducing it is cheaper.PDF · Sign in to download · Series B+
- Opening in another countryEntity or employer of record, and the tax question to answer before either. An entity is easy to create and slow to close.DOCX · Sign in to download · Series B+