Analysis

October 18, 2023

The rise — and fall — of Babylon

Company insiders tell Sifted where it all went wrong for the wildly-ambitious healthtech startup


Credit: Lexie Yu

One summer’s day in 2018, Ali Parsa, the bespectacled founder of UK healthtech Babylon, took to the dimly-lit stage at the Royal College of Physicians in London to announce some big news. 

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Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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