- Slow cycles for research, experimentation, and prototyping.
- Difficulty managing and analyzing vast amounts of R&D data.
- Inefficient collaboration among distributed research teams.
- Bottlenecks in translating research findings into deployable code.
You are building a company around a novel technology or idea. Your focus is on rapid product development, proving your technology works, finding product-market fit, acquiring initial users, and securing funding. Your challenges include limited resources, intense pressure to innovate quickly, building a scalable and secure core technology from scratch, and protecting early IP. You need agile, expert software development partners to build robust MVPs, develop core algorithms, establish scalable architecture, and implement foundational security.
You identify, invest in, and support promising Hi-Tech startups. Your focus is on evaluating technology potential, market opportunity, team capability, IP strength, and accelerating portfolio company growth. Your pain points include conducting deep technical due diligence, tracking the progress and milestones of portfolio companies, assessing the scalability and security of early-stage technology, and facilitating connections or resources for startups. You could benefit from custom-designed solutions for deal flow management, technical assessment, and portfolio tracking with integrated metrics.
You oversee the development and evolution of a software product with advanced technical capabilities (e.g., a cybersecurity tool, a data analytics platform, a developer tool). You’re focused on defining product features, prioritizing the roadmap, managing the development backlog, ensuring product quality, and driving user adoption and satisfaction. Your pain points include keeping pace with technological advancements, managing complex dependencies, technical debt, ensuring seamless integration with other tools, and collecting actionable user feedback on sophisticated features. You need mature software development partners, robust testing automation, the best DevOps practices, and continuous maintenance.
“We hired Computools to assist us in transforming our server-side infrastructure to support better management and distribution of updates to mobile devices. The main challenge was integrating a versioned delta approach to manage the updates efficiently.”