• Market research
• Technical DD
• Targeted team evaluation
• Acquirer-target fit analysis

P2P Consulting provides services to Venture Capital funds and Private Equity funds considering investment or acquisition of private organisations and start-ups. Mike Bursell, P2P’s founder, has experience of both start-up funding and M&A, including both technical and business due diligence. With over two decades of experience on the intersection between technology and business, he has operated as a business leader, product manager, software architect and software engineer, giving him expertise relevant to all stages and parts of the funding and acquisition process.

P2P Consulting specialises in:

• Cybersecurity, including cryptography and PKI
• Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and quantum-resistant cryptography (“post-quantum”)
• Cryptocurrency and blockchain
• Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs), including Confidential Computing, Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC)
• Cloud, distributed systems, cloud-native, containers and virtualisation
• Software supply chain security and SBOMs
• DevOps and DevSecOps
• WebAssembly
• Open source software
• Open source hardware
• FinTech