Authored By - Hemanth Aligingi, Senior Executive at Outsource360 Two numbers tell the story of Builder.ai's collapse in May 2025. The first is $220 million, the 2024 sales figure a lender group led by Viola Credit had been told to expect from the UK-based AI app-building company, which counted Microsoft among its backers. The second is about $55 million: the figure after an internal audit, according to the Financial Times as reported by silicon.co.uk. Few recent cases show as

Authored By - Hemanth Aligingi, Senior Executive at Outsource360 In June 2026 a Bengaluru-headquartered cloud-kitchen company did something that should interest any founder who has ever argued about a startup valuation: it shelved its own listing. SEBI had cleared the offer back in October 2025. The company was seeking a valuation of roughly Rs 4,000 crore, and the offer itself was an Rs 800 crore fresh issue plus an offer for sale of up to 4.85 crore equity shares. Then came

Authored by - Souvik Das, Executive at Outsource360 On 25 March 2022, staff at Fast, the one-click checkout company, were told at their weekly all-hands that the Series C was delayed. On 5 April the company shut down and let go of about 450 people, The Pragmatic Engineer reported. Eleven days. Few failures show the arithmetic of startup runway and burn rate as plainly, because the whole story comes down to how fast the cash went out and how long it could last. It wasn't a sma

Authored By - Hemanth Aligingi, Senior Executive at Outsource360 By the end of Thursday 9 March 2023, $42 billion in deposits had left Silicon Valley Bank. That is the FDIC's own figure, from its testimony of 27 March 2023. The bank had reported that 88 percent of its deposits were uninsured, and its deposits were mostly linked to businesses financed through venture capital. Overnight, questions most early-stage companies had never assigned to anyone turned into an emergency.