{"name":"SPEAKERBUS TECHNOLOGY LIMITED","company_number":"04415859","status":"Liquidation","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"2002-04-12","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"C/O Frp Advisory Trading Limited, 110 Cannon Street, London, EC4N 6EU","postcode":"EC4N 6EU","sic_codes":[{"code":26309,"description":"Manufacture of communication equipment other than telegraph, and telephone apparatus and equipment"},{"code":62012,"description":"Business and domestic software development"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[],"warnings":["The annual accounts for this company are overdue."],"accounts":{"category":"Small","year_end":"31 May","last_made_up_to":"2023-05-31","next_due":"2025-05-31"},"employees":null,"financials":[{"financial_date":"2022-05-31","net_assets":589198,"cash":14},{"financial_date":"2021-05-31","net_assets":877159,"cash":149592},{"financial_date":"2020-05-31","net_assets":-678850,"cash":873},{"financial_date":"2019-05-31","net_assets":-3174688},{"financial_date":"2018-05-31","net_assets":-2816544,"cash":38130}],"officers":{"current":3,"resigned":11,"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":1,"outstanding":1},"gazette_notices":[{"date":"2025-09-01","kind":"insolvency"},{"date":"2025-09-01","kind":"insolvency"}],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"Speakerbus Technology holds a genuinely differentiated critical-voice technology asset — approximately £6.0m of cumulative capitalised R&D, £2.1m still on the balance sheet — serving the regulated financial trading and command & control markets, yet it never achieved commercial self-sufficiency, relying on £3.24m of intra-group funding and ending FY2022 with £14 of cash. With the company now in liquidation and its customer relationships and IP likely interwoven with the wider Speakerbus Group, the strategic imperative has shifted from growth to value capture: securing, valuing and redeploying the development platform and installed base into a software-first, recurring-revenue vehicle before talent and customers disperse. The principal risks are intangible impairment, secular decline of hardware turrets, and value leakage to the group structure — all of which compress realisable value for external stakeholders.","website":"https://www.speakerbus.com","links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/speakerbus-technology","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/speakerbus-technology/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/speakerbus-technology/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04415859","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/speakerbus-technology/financial","gazette":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/speakerbus-technology/gazette","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/speakerbus-technology/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/speakerbus-technology/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/speakerbus-technology/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/speakerbus-technology"}