Harbr / Technology leadership

Looking beyond the pitch. Into the technology.

Technical due diligence for a healthcare impact venture fund, informed by experience building and scaling health businesses.

MY ROLEConsulting CTOENGAGEMENTHealthcare investment

THE ORGANISATION / CONTEXT & SCALE

About Harbr.

Harbr is a UK healthcare venture organisation backing and supporting digital-health and deeptech founders. Its work spans investment, due diligence and helping ventures reach customers and new markets, bringing an operator’s perspective to early-stage healthcare businesses.

Its published history includes a 2019 collaboration with Healthcare UK on international market access. Its present-day model includes an angel syndicate investing up to £150,000 collectively per company and a Primary Care Accelerator launched in 2025 with University of Birmingham backing.

Sector: Healthcare venture investment and support
Location: UK; international market-access work
History: Healthcare UK collaboration in 2019
Scale: Up to £150k per syndicate investment

Sources & context

The current syndicate and accelerator provide company context; they are not presented as the fund structure or investment amounts during my engagement. No portfolio identities are disclosed.

3diligenced companies subsequently funded

Technical diligencearchitecture, scalability and teams

Healthcareoperator-led assessment

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01 / THE CONTEXT

What needed to change.

Investment decisions needed deeper technical validation. Harbr needed to understand the technology, team capability and organisational maturity behind healthcare ventures before deploying capital.

02 / MY RESPONSIBILITY

What I was there to own.

Technical due diligence and technology maturity assessment.
Architecture and scalability assessment.
Team capability and organisational maturity.

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03 / THE WORK

From the problem to the work.

01
Examine the stack
Deep-dived the technology stack and assessed architecture and scalability.
02
Look at the organisation
Assessed the team and the organisation’s ability to develop and operate the technology.
03
Bring an operator’s perspective
Applied experience building impact businesses in Bangladesh to the diligence process.

04 / THE OUTCOMES

What changed.

Three companies taken through my diligence process were subsequently funded from the first fund.
Provided senior technical assessment across the stack, scalability and organisational capability.

A note on these outcomes

The funding outcome is based on my account. Investment decisions remained with the fund. Portfolio company names and confidential diligence findings are not disclosed.

05 / TAKE IT WITH YOU