Architecture, codebase, infrastructure, security posture and the engineering organisation behind them, assessed against what the company claims and what the round assumes. You receive a risk register, a view on the cost to fix, and a plain-language opinion you can put in the memo.
IT consulting·United Arab Emirates
Technical clarity for venture capital.
We advise venture funds and the companies they back on the technology decisions that decide outcomes: what to believe in a pitch, what to build, what to buy, and what to fix after the round closes.
The questions we answer
Does the architecture match the deck?
What breaks at ten times the load?
Who actually owns the infrastructure?
Is the security posture more than a slide?
What does it cost to keep the team that built it?
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Beyond the nines
Engineers measure systems in nines. 99.9, 99.99, 99.999 per cent uptime, each decimal harder than the last. A fund's questions begin where the nines end: whether the architecture is what the deck says, whether it holds at ten times the load, who actually owns the infrastructure, and what it would cost to replace the people who built it. Metanine exists to answer those questions with evidence, before the money moves and after.
Base
United Arab Emirates.
Focus
Venture capital funds and the companies in their portfolios.
Stance
Independent. No vendor commissions, no reseller margins.
What we do
Six disciplines, one mandate: better technology decisions.
Fractional CTO cover, roadmap and architecture reviews, technical hiring support and cloud cost discipline, scaled to the stage of the company. We work with founders directly and report to the board in the board's language.
Deal-flow and portfolio-monitoring tooling, data rooms, identity and device management, secure communications and vendor selection for the fund itself. Usually a short programme that leaves a small team with systems it can run without us.
Posture assessments, incident readiness, policy sets and control frameworks aligned with UAE data protection law and the DIFC and ADGM regimes, as well as the international standards that limited partners and enterprise customers ask about.
Use-case selection with a return attached, data foundations, model and vendor evaluation, and governance that satisfies a board. We separate what is deployable this quarter from what is a demo.
Cloud migration, legacy replacement and the organisational changes that go with them, run with a programme office, a budget and a governance cadence that keeps the board informed and the delivery honest.
How we work
Four stages. The same discipline every time.
Stage 01
Diagnose
Interviews, code and infrastructure review, and a read of the commercial context the technology has to serve. Evidence first, opinions after.
Stage 02
Design
A plan an investment committee and an engineering lead can both sign: architecture, team, vendors, budget and sequence, with the trade-offs written down.
Stage 03
Deliver
We stay in the room: running the programme, selecting partners, and holding delivery to the plan and the budget it was approved on.
Stage 04
Sustain
Governance, reporting and quarterly reviews, so the value found at diligence compounds through the holding period rather than leaking out of it.
Who we serve
Built around the way capital actually works.
Venture capital funds
Diligence on targets, technical support for portfolio companies, and the fund's own infrastructure. Retained, or engaged per deal.
- Diligence sprints
- Portfolio reviews
- Fund IT & security
Portfolio companies
Founders who need senior technical judgement without a full-time hire, from seed through to Series C and exit readiness.
- Fractional CTO
- Scale planning
- Exit readiness
Family offices & corporates
Principals and operating companies facing technology decisions that outsize their internal teams.
- Vendor selection
- Security programmes
- Transformation
Retained advisory
A monthly engagement with a standing seat at the table.
Project based
Fixed scope, fixed fee, a defined outcome.
Diligence sprint
Two to three weeks per target, timed to the deal.
How we hold ourselves
Independent
We take no commissions and hold no reseller agreements, so a recommendation is only ever a recommendation.
Investor-literate
We write for the memo, not the wiki. Findings arrive as risk, cost and timing, in the form a committee decides on.
Discreet
Non-disclosure first, named references only with consent, and no client logos on this page for a reason.
Contact
Bring us the decision you are least sure about.
A first conversation costs nothing and can sit under a non-disclosure agreement if you prefer. Reach the principal directly on LinkedIn or X.