{"name":"BABEL SYSTEMS LIMITED","company_number":"06545405","status":"Liquidation","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"2008-03-26","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"5th Floor 77 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, England, W1D 5DU","postcode":"W1D 5DU","sic_codes":[{"code":62012,"description":"Business and domestic software development"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[],"warnings":["The annual accounts for this company are overdue.","The confirmation statement for this company is overdue."],"accounts":{"category":"Small","year_end":"31 December","last_made_up_to":"2023-12-29","next_due":"2025-12-31"},"employees":null,"financials":[{"financial_date":"2023-12-29","cash":11417},{"financial_date":"2022-12-29","cash":8997},{"financial_date":"2021-12-29","cash":12831},{"financial_date":"2017-12-29","cash":302},{"financial_date":"2016-06-30","cash":115870}],"officers":{"current":2,"resigned":18,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":0,"outstanding":0},"gazette_notices":[{"date":"2026-01-08","kind":"insolvency"},{"date":"2026-01-08","kind":"insolvency"},{"date":"2026-01-08","kind":"insolvency"}],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"Babel Systems Limited is in liquidation and effectively ceasing to exist. While the 2023 accounts show £3.5M in shareholders' funds, this is an illusion created by intercompany accounting — the company has only £11,417 in cash, net current liabilities of £4.1M, and 99%+ of both debtors and creditors are with group companies. The apparent £8.7M profit in 2022 that rescued the company from £8.1M negative equity was almost certainly an intercompany debt restructuring rather than genuine trading. This is a corporate shell being wound up within the InvestCloud group, not a viable business.","website":null,"links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/babel-systems","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/babel-systems/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/babel-systems/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06545405","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/babel-systems/financial","gazette":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/babel-systems/gazette","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/babel-systems/control","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/babel-systems/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/babel-systems"}