This stuff matters! (Yes, really)

Your tech might be next level, but if your legal, corporate and banking foundations are floppy, investors will smell risk. Miss a filing, screw up your share structure, or deal with the wrong bank and you’ll waste time, money, and credibility.

In deep-tech, where timelines are long and cash is precious, every inefficiency counts. So let’s break down what founders need to know and who to work with.

Corporate Secretarial (CorpSec)

Banks

Lawyers

Timeline view

Common pitfalls Founders come up against

• Using generic (SaaS-era) legal documents that don’t suit deep-tech.
• Not assigning IP properly from day zero (you’ll regret it later in funding rounds).
• Underestimating the regulatory runway (for biotech, medtech, materials), you’ll need permits, approvals, which your lawyer should flag early.
• Choosing a bank that locks you, with terrible FX or cross-border costs.
• Picking cheap CorpSec services that cut corners, missing filings is a red flag for investors.
• Poor communication between your legal, secretary, and finance teams, things get siloed, and you’ll have inconsistent structures.

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All information on this page is solely ATUM’s opinion and does not constitute legal or accounting advice. For more info, go to: www.atumventures.com

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