There must have been a few times where you felt like it was all coming together, but then sometimes it felt like nothing was seeming to land.

Yeah, you know, I'd met all these people internationally who told me, yeah, once you get the first three, four investors, it just starts to snowball, right? So I was expecting that.

And I got to about halfway to a bit over halfway in my capital raise relatively quickly.

And then it really stalled.

And I had my whiteboard with my pipeline written.

And these are the investors that I've... counting on to come in.

And that pipeline started to really dry up.

well congratulations you're no longer having to search pitch or negotiate you've been in the ceo seat for a few months now how does it feel compared to how you thought it might

here, right?

So the business effectively... has a really core competency at operating at the interface between the hardware and software.

It was founded by a computer science software engineer who built it up over 27 years.

And the way that core competency has manifested itself in various different products that you see today is mainly three areas.

So I'll take you through those.

The first one is digital forensics software, and that's used by law enforcement agencies around the world to extract evidence from desktop computers in a way that's admissible in court.

The second part of the business is our benchmarking and diagnostics business, and we have three software products in that particular area.

Take me back right to the beginning in terms of what did you study? What did you then do for work? And then how did you finally arrive at the decision to buy a business and start this whole search fund and ETA journey?

here, right?

So the business effectively... has a really core competency at operating at the interface between the hardware and software.

It was founded by a computer science software engineer who built it up over 27 years.

And the way that core competency has manifested itself in various different products that you see today is mainly three areas.

So I'll take you through those.

The first one is digital forensics software, and that's used by law enforcement agencies around the world to extract evidence from desktop computers in a way that's admissible in court.

The second part of the business is our benchmarking and diagnostics business, and we have three software products in that particular area.

Take me back right to the beginning in terms of what did you study? What did you then do for work? And then how did you finally arrive at the decision to buy a business and start this whole search fund and ETA journey?