--- title: "Protege: what they buy and what they pay" url: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/protege/ site: https://www.brightinfo.com/ description: "What Protege buys, what it pays and its deal terms, from public sources with a link for every fact. Last verified November 3, 2026." last_updated: 2026-11-03 --- # Protege: what they buy and what they pay Buyers › Data marketplaces › Protege Protege is profiled here as a data marketplace [1]. Data types cited in this profile include: Media content, Audio recordings, Health records (de-identified), Medical imaging [1]. Last verified November 3, 2026 ## Quick facts | Fact | Value | |---|---| | Type | Data marketplace [1] | | Status | Active [2] | | Website | https://withprotege.ai/ [3] | | HQ | New York, NY [4] | | Founded | 2024 [1] | | Ownership | $30M Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), announced January 2026, expanding its $25M Series A from August 2025; total funding $65M [1] · Returning investors include Footwork, CRV, Bloomberg Beta, Flex Capital and Shaper Capital [1] · Legal entity shown on site: Protege Health, Inc. [4] | | Program | For Data Providers (data partner program) [4] · https://withprotege.ai/data-providers [4] | | Price | Case study: an EMEA broadcaster earned over $1M in 6 months [5] · Case study: a regional sports rights distributor earned $250,000+ in year one [6] | | Pricing basis | Revenue share [7] | | Payment timing | Revenue share paid out to partners with each use of their data [1] | | How to start | Partner form on the contact page [2] | ## What they buy - **Data types:** Media content, Audio recordings, Health records (de-identified), Medical imaging [1] · Motion capture, Egocentric video, Gaming, 3D data [8] - **Excluded:** Not published - **Intended use:** Training, Fine-tuning, Evaluation, Benchmarking [6] ## Price and payment - **Price:** Case study: an EMEA broadcaster earned over $1M in 6 months [5] · Case study: a regional sports rights distributor earned $250,000+ in year one [6] - **Pricing basis:** Revenue share [7] - **Payment timing:** Revenue share paid out to partners with each use of their data [1] - **Seller fees:** Not published - **Platform's cut:** Not published - **Referral bounty:** Not published ## Deal terms - **Deal structure:** Licence of limited rights for defined AI training purposes; not a sale or transfer of IP ownership (video page) [6] - **Exclusivity:** Case-specific: in the broadcaster case study Protege held exclusive AI training rights to the catalog [5] - **Term:** Not published - **Field of use:** Not licensed for public exhibition, redistribution or consumer entertainment use [6] · No Name-Image-Likeness (NIL) duplication/copying/use, including voice [6] - **Onward transfer:** In its broadcaster case study, Protege says the partner trusted it to sub-license its content to AI companies [5] - **Seller keeps ownership:** Yes [9] ## Privacy and data handling - **De-identification:** Protege works with partners on de-identification, certification and tokenization before data is shared (healthcare) [9] - **Raw data deletion:** Not published - **Certifications:** Site displays an AICPA SOC certification badge (report type not stated) [3] - **Personal data handling:** Privacy-first approach that, depending on dataset and jurisdiction, may include automated removal of personal identifiers, sampling and QA, optional anonymization or voice modification, and GDPR/CCPA/HIPAA-aligned workflows where applicable [6] ## Process - **Steps:** (1) Discovery (2) Structure (3) Prepare (4) Monetize [7] - **Timeline:** Cataloged and indexed content often fulfils active opportunities in under a month [7] - **Sample before offer:** Not published - **How to start:** Partner form on the contact page [2] ## Who they sell to - **Sells to:** AI companies and institutions worldwide, including the majority of the "Magnificent Seven" (not named) [1] ## Track record ### Named deals - Dailymotion: catalog of roughly 40 million videos made available for AI training and evaluation via Protege (July 2026) [10] - GrabMaps (Grab): selected GrabMaps data assets made available to AI developers via Protege (September 2026) [11] - Segmed: medical imaging data partnership [9] - HistAI: whole-slide pathology dataset partnership [9] - Gradient Health: licensing de-identified, HIPAA-compliant medical imaging data [9] - Altron HealthTech (South Africa): multimodal longitudinal healthcare data [9] - Autentic: premium global content for AI training [6] ### Coverage - AlleyWatch covered the $30M raise and mentioned Protege's recent acquisition of Calliope Networks (reported) [12] ## Watch for None found in public reporting as of November 3, 2026. ## Sources 1. Protege Raises $30 Million Led by a16z to Unlock Access to Data for AI Development, withprotege.ai. Published January 7, 2026. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company's own site) https://withprotege.ai/articles/news/protege-a16z-30million-fundraise/ 2. Contact - Protege, withprotege.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company's own site) https://withprotege.ai/contact 3. Home - Protege, withprotege.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company's own site) https://withprotege.ai/ 4. For Data Providers - Protege, withprotege.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company's own site) https://withprotege.ai/data-providers 5. Media Partner Case Study: Broadcaster Earns $1M+ in 6 Months with Protege, withprotege.ai. Published October 8, 2025. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company's own site) https://withprotege.ai/articles/blog/media-partner-case-study-broadcaster-earns-1m-in-6-months/ 6. Video - Protege, withprotege.ai. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company's own site) https://withprotege.ai/data-provider/video 7. Other Domains - Protege, withprotege.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company's own site) https://withprotege.ai/data-provider/other-domains 8. Spatial & Physical - Protege, withprotege.ai. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company's own site) https://withprotege.ai/data-provider/spatial 9. Healthcare - Protege, withprotege.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company's own site) https://withprotege.ai/data-provider/healthcare 10. Protege and Dailymotion Announce Partnership to Bring Licensed Global Video Data to the AI Market, withprotege.ai. Published July 16, 2026. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company's own site) https://withprotege.ai/articles/news/dailymotion-protege-partnership-announcement-video/ 11. Protege and GrabMaps Partner to Bring Real-World Southeast Asian Streets to Spatial and Physical AI, withprotege.ai. Published September 21, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company's own site) https://withprotege.ai/articles/news/protege-and-grabmaps-partner-to-bring-real-world-southeast-asian-streets-to-spatial-and-physical-ai/ 12. Protege Raises $30M to Solve AI Development’s Biggest Bottleneck Through Licensed Real-World Data – AlleyWatch, alleywatch.com. Published January 8, 2026. Accessed November 3, 2026. (press) https://alleywatch.com/2026/01/protege-ai-training-data-licensing-real-world-data-bobby-samuels/ Last verified November 3, 2026 **Disclosure.** Bright Info is a sell-side broker. We may invite Protege to bid for a client's data. This profile is compiled from public sources; it is not endorsed by or affiliated with Protege. 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