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Administrators are connected standby to grip the illness of the UK limb of Builder.ai, a Microsoft-backed start-up which has filed for bankruptcy extortion successful the US.
Sky News has learnt that Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has been lined up to oversee the insolvency of Builder.ai's UK entities.
News of the impending assignment comes days aft Builder.ai, which was founded by Sachin Dev Duggal, collapsed successful the US.
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Mr Duggal stepped down earlier this year.
Builder.ai had raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors, including a Qatari sovereign wealthiness fund, helping it to execute a 'unicorn' valuation of much than $1bn.
The institution said it utilized artificial quality to marque the process of gathering an app "as casual arsenic ordering pizza".
In caller weeks, however, media outlets including the Financial Times person alleged the institution utilized perchance bogus income figures to pull investment.
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The paper besides reported that Mr Duggal had sounded retired imaginable backers to bargain the concern retired of insolvency proceedings.
It was unclear connected Friday whether immoderate meaningful assets remained wrong Builder.ai's UK firm entities.
A spokesperson for A&M declined to comment.
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