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Alexandra Heal @alexandraheal.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

SCOOP! Sachin Duggal, founder and "chief wizard" of the now defunct tech unicorn Builder.ai, made $20mn from selling shares in the company Builder.ai collapsed last month, after raising half a billion dollars, when revenues had to be dramatically restated With @bondhack.ft.com on.ft.com/4k8t44A

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Builder.ai ‘Chief Wizard’ Sachin Dev Duggal made $20mn in share sales

[FREE TO READ] Former chief executive of collapsed Microsoft-backed start-up also borrowed against holdings

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Alexandra Heal @alexandraheal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Did you know our food system spreads human sewage contaminated with PFAS (forever chemicals) onto the crops we eat? Absolutely gross. Important story by @ellieodonnell.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Warning over 'dirty secret' of toxic chemicals on farmers fields - BBC News

Campaigners say that farmers' fields are being contaminated by chemicals and microplastics in sewage sludge.

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Alexandra Heal @alexandraheal.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

NEW: The full story of how Microsoft-backed Builder.ai, the UK tech startup that raised over half a billion dollars, is alleged to have artificially inflated its revenues before collapsing into scandal last month Somehow the tale even includes tennis W/ @bondhack.ft.com 🎾 on.ft.com/4kwMNfa

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Inside the collapse of Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai

[FREE TO READ] Top investors including Qatar are realising they may have backed a business that largely reported artificial revenues

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Alexandra Heal @alexandraheal.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

SCOOP - An internal investigation at Builder.ai, the UK tech start-up that had received over $500mn from major investors including Microsoft, found evidence of potentially bogus sales at the start-up before it collapsed this week on.ft.com/4jhmQPc with @bondhack.ft.com

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Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after finding potentially bogus sales

[FREE TO READ] Failed UK start-up revised down revenues to just a quarter of prior estimates

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Alexandra Heal @alexandraheal.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Very deserving winners. Just read their latest instalment - a family who owed £10,000 for having earned just a £2 or so over the limit each week, now having to pay back everything they received in benefits. Despite DWP not alerting them years ago when they first went over

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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 20/05/2025

Builder.ai just went bust. Around half a billion dollars invested from the likes of Microsoft, QIA and Insight Partners wiped out. Full story here with @alexandraheal.bsky.social. Comes after a run of probing FT stories (led by Alex) on the company and its founder Sachin Duggal on.ft.com/43gI8YN

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

[FREE TO READ] Once high-flying group founded by Sachin Dev Duggal says its was unable to recover from ‘past decisions’

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Alexandra Heal @alexandraheal.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The total value of big European buyout deals increased at more than twice the rate of the rest of the world last year, according to my analysis of Dealogic data. Private equity firms are taking advantage of the continent's economic headwinds to snap up cheap companies on.ft.com/3WbZeTG

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Private equity targets Europe for big buyout deals

[FREE TO READ] Total value of large private equity deals in Europe increased at twice the rate of the rest of world in 2024

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 13/11/2024

A tale of two platforms: BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀

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