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    Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai collapses into insolvency

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    Builder.ai, one of many UK’s best-funded know-how start-ups, is coming into insolvency proceedings, weeks after restating its revenues and admitting “issues” below its previous management.

    The London-based group, which is backed by Microsoft, knowledgeable workers about severe monetary difficulties throughout a company-wide name on Tuesday.

    The corporate confirmed to the Monetary Instances that its primary unit, Engineer.ai Company, “will likely be coming into into insolvency proceedings and can appoint an administrator to handle the corporate’s affairs”.

    The insolvency is a blow to Builder.ai’s blue-chip backers akin to Microsoft and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, which collectively poured $450mn into an organization that claimed it may make the method of constructing an app or web site “as simple as ordering pizza”.

    The corporate’s founder Sachin Dev Duggal stepped down as chief govt earlier this 12 months. Builder.ai stated on Tuesday that it was “unable to recuperate from historic challenges and previous selections that positioned vital pressure on its monetary place”.

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    Duggal got here below scrutiny after the FT revealed final 12 months that he had been named by authorities in India in relation to high-profile prison probes, whereas he additionally fought a collection of different authorized disputes throughout his profession.

    Duggal has denied wrongdoing in relation to the Indian case and his legal professionals have beforehand maintained that he’s only a witness within the case.

    In April, Builder.ai’s new chief govt Manpreet Ratia stated the corporate had lowered the revenues it beforehand recorded for 2023 to $140mn and that it had beforehand lowered its forecasted income for the second half of 2024 by 25 per cent.

    Earlier this 12 months, the FT reported that Builder.ai had drawn scrutiny for accounting practices that included counting on an auditor with long-standing hyperlinks to Duggal.

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