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The Cost of Traditional Diligence

Investors spend an average of 118 hours over 83 days¹ on each deal, many of which ultimately do not close.

This happens because teams must first familiarise themselves with an unfamiliar industry or company. Too often, decisive but non-obvious risks are uncovered late in the process.

¹ 'How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions.' Harvard Business Review, Mar.–Apr. 2021

Our Solution

Peripheral is purpose built to produce sector specific due diligence reports on private-market companies.

After years of engineering, we've addressed one of the industry's defining challenges: generating in-depth analytical reports on private companies using only their name and website.

Our reasoning models can operate entirely without client data, conducting and compressing weeks of research into hours.

Through our platform, investors can share their investment thesis and preferences for inclusion in every report run, and have the option to securely share additional company information that will be integrated into our analysis.

Users can ask follow-up questions on any report section, receiving answers in real time.

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How It Works

Starting from zero, we are able to cut through a company's claims and turn scattered information — from patents, new regulations, or competitor signals — into clear insights.

A key enabler of this is our novel data architecture, which redefines how information is sourced, interpreted, and validated.

Our conclusions come from both the data we find and the gaps left behind.

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Our Reports

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How It Compares

What the Company Says

"Leaders in Synthetic Fuel Technology" — Air Company

What the Media Says

"This milestone is more than a technological breakthrough. It's a bold reimagining of how we power national defence, tackle climate change, and bring energy security into the 21st century." — Forbes, 2025

What our Report Says

"The company has successfully raised its profile through high-visibility partnerships, media coverage and early defence funding. Yet, each pillar of its long-term mission—technical proof at commercial scale, regulatory certification for neat use, and cost competitiveness driven by cheap renewable power—still sits in the category of work-in-progress. Accordingly, investors should view the strategic vision as directionally compelling yet materially unproven." — Peripheral Insights, 2025

Differentiated Approach

Our reports provide real depth. We believe world class models, like top experts, must be specialists.

With decades of experience in venture capital and private equity, we've built and trained our engines to mirror the structured reasoning of industry-specific analyst teams. We are insiders — and so are our models.

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Our Models

We are launching with two specialised models: one for deep tech and novel first-of-a-kind technologies, and another for SaaS.

Together they cover both ends of the diligence spectrum: from overwhelming complexity to markets where similar offerings obscure moat and critical nuance.

For opportunities that don't fit either, we have built an industry-agnostic model on the same proprietary architecture. This means it outperforms traditional generalist approaches and still surfaces most — if not all — meaningful insights. As we evolve, we will continue to bring new sector-specific models online.

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About Us

Our founders come from careers in venture capital, private equity, and M&A. Their experience spans from co-leading a New York–based fund focused on scaling novel materials to specialising in high-growth software.

The broader group of colleagues and advisors bring equally specialised backgrounds, from taking private companies public in large-scale energy projects, to deep expertise in insurance.

The technology side is led by experts who have taught artificial intelligence at leading universities and delivered large-scale AI projects for blue-chip firms.

Collectively, the company draws on experience from institutions such as UBS, KPMG, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs. We are a diverse team headquartered in the City of London.

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Ethics

While not political, we are guided by firm ethical principles. Therefore, our models will not analyse businesses in fossil fuels, weapons and defence, pornography, or other sectors with well-documented humanitarian or ecological harm.

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