The AI-Enhanced Exit: How to Price AI Capability When Selling a Portfolio Company
How buyers assess and price AI capability in acquisitions — and how sellers should position AI assets for maximum exit value.
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Trademarks and Service Marks: Valuation Guide
A practical guide to valuing trademarks and service marks as intangible assets under IFRS 3. Covers the Relief-from-Royalty method, key inputs, common pitfalls, and how trademarks create enterprise value.
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Fair Value Hierarchy for Intangible Assets (Level 1, 2, 3)
How the IFRS 13 and ASC 820 fair value hierarchy applies to intangible assets. Covers the three input levels, why most intangibles are Level 3, and the disclosure obligations that follow from the classification.
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How VCs Assess Intangible Assets in Early-Stage Companies
Venture capital investment decisions are intangible asset decisions. Every VC who writes a cheque is betting on the quality and growth trajectory of a startup's technology, team, IP, customer capital, and brand. Understanding how they evaluate these assets gives founders a strategic advantage.
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Multi-Period Excess Earnings: Step-by-Step Calculation Guide
A complete step-by-step guide to calculating intangible asset values using the Multi-Period Excess Earnings Method (MPEEM). Includes a worked numerical example with contributory asset charges, tax adjustments, and present value calculations.
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Intangibles Investment Tracking: Where Your Capital Really Goes
Companies track physical capital expenditure meticulously. Intangible investments — often larger and more strategically important — are buried in operating expenses and forgotten. Opagio's investment tracking changes this by monitoring intangible capex over time and connecting it to measurable productivity outcomes.
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The Intangibles Questionnaire: How to Assess Your Company's Hidden Asset Portfolio in 10 Minutes
A complete guide to the Opagio Intangibles Questionnaire — how it maps your company across The Opagio 12 value drivers, scores intangible asset maturity, and produces an actionable report that connects hidden assets to revenue, EBITDA, and valuation impact.
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Technical Debt as a Negative Intangible Asset
Technical debt is the mirror image of technology capital. Where well-architected code creates an appreciating intangible asset, accumulated shortcuts create a depreciating one. Understanding technical debt as a negative intangible asset changes how founders and investors measure technology value.
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Beyond GDP: How AI Forces a Complete Rethink of National Productivity Measurement
GDP and TFP miss AI-driven productivity because they were built for tangible capital. Why national measurement frameworks must evolve for the AI age.
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Royalty Rate Selection: Finding Comparable Licensing Data
How to select defensible royalty rates for Relief from Royalty valuations. Covers licensing databases, comparability adjustments, industry benchmarks, and the common pitfalls that undermine royalty rate selections.
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Startup Board Reporting: Intangible Asset KPIs That Matter
Most board packs report revenue, burn rate, and runway. They ignore the intangible assets that generate 90% of the company's value. Adding intangible asset KPIs to board reporting transforms the quality of strategic decisions and the depth of investor engagement.
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Beyond the Balance Sheet: Intangible Asset-Backed Lending for Healthcare and MedTech
Healthcare and MedTech companies invest billions in clinical evidence, regulatory approvals, and proprietary health data — assets that represent formidable barriers to competition and durable sources of revenue. Yet these assets remain largely invisible to the lending market. Here is how structured intangible collateral can transform healthcare financing.
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