--- title: "Turing: what they buy and what they pay" url: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/turing/ site: https://www.brightinfo.com/ description: "What Turing 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 --- # Turing: what they buy and what they pay Buyers › AI data vendors › Turing Turing is profiled here as an AI data vendor [1]. Data types cited in this profile include: Chat, Email, Tickets, Docs/wiki, CRM, Support history, Databases, Code [1]. Last verified November 3, 2026 ## Quick facts | Fact | Value | |---|---| | Type | AI data vendor [1] | | Status | Active [1] | | Website | https://www.turing.com/ [2] | | HQ | San Francisco, CA [3] | | Founded | Not published | | Ownership | $111M Series E (reported March 2025) led by Khazanah Nasional Berhad, doubling its valuation to $2.2B [4] | | Program | Project Lazarus [1] · https://lazarus.turing.com/ [1] | | Price | Not published | | Pricing basis | Revenue share: paid from each sale when a lab licenses the record, and for training tasks, evaluations or environments Turing builds on it; no fixed price [1] | | Payment timing | Not published | | How to start | 'Get started' form (about 2 minutes, no files and no call needed to start); mutual NDA before any data moves [1] | ## What they buy - **Data types:** Chat, Email, Tickets, Docs/wiki, CRM, Support history, Databases, Code [1] - **Excluded:** Not published - **Intended use:** Licensed to AI labs; Turing also builds training tasks, evaluations and RL environments for AI labs on the records [1] · Pretraining and benchmarking corpus for multi-turn, tool-rich LLM workflows (Turing newsletter, Dec 2025) [5] ## Who qualifies - **Minimum headcount:** Not published - **Minimum history:** Not published - **Geography:** Most regions; strongest demand in the US, UK, Canada and the EU; English-language records sell best; some jurisdictions carry export rules Turing flags early [1] - **Company stage:** Active, winding-down and wound-down companies (most are still active) [1] ## Price and payment - **Price:** Not published - **Pricing basis:** Revenue share: paid from each sale when a lab licenses the record, and for training tasks, evaluations or environments Turing builds on it; no fixed price [1] - **Payment timing:** Not published - **Seller fees:** Not published - **Platform's cut:** Not published - **Referral bounty:** Up to $50K, if the referred company signs and its record sells [1] ## Deal terms - **Deal structure:** Non-exclusive license; Turing is the only seller for the first 90 days after signing, then the seller can renew or opt out [1] - **Exclusivity:** Not published - **Term:** Not published - **Field of use:** Not published - **Onward transfer:** Not published - **Seller keeps ownership:** Yes; the seller gives Turing the right to prepare and license the record, and ownership does not change hands [1] ## Privacy and data handling - **De-identification:** Turing removes personal data and secrets before anything reaches a model, at its own cost [1] - **Raw data deletion:** Not published - **Certifications:** SOC 2 Type II (report available under NDA, per the Lazarus site) [1] - **Personal data handling:** Isolated, air-gapped processing; access limited to a named team under NDA; seller approves scope first [6] ## Process - **Steps:** (1) Tell us about your data (2) Sign the mutual NDA (3) Tell us how much you have (4) Share your samples (5) QC and agreement (QA review, 5 business days) [1] - **Timeline:** QA review of samples within 5 business days; usually earns within the first 2 months of scoping [1] - **Sample before offer:** Yes; priced from a real sample (small slice, under mutual NDA) reviewed by QA within 5 business days; no estimate from a form [1] - **How to start:** 'Get started' form (about 2 minutes, no files and no call needed to start); mutual NDA before any data moves [1] ## Who they sell to - **Sells to:** Frontier AI labs and companies building AI models (unnamed) [1] · OpenAI and other LLM producers (Turing's broader data business) (reported) [4] ## Track record ### Named deals - CEO Jonathan Siddharth told The Information (as reported by Fortune) that Turing had bought five to ten failed-startup codebases, paying an average in the tens of thousands of dollars for each [7] ### Coverage - Fortune (Sept 14, 2026) reports Turing's CEO told The Information it had bought five to ten failed-startup codebases (reported) [7] ## Watch for None found in public reporting as of November 3, 2026. ## Sources 1. Project Lazarus | Turing, lazarus.turing.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company's own site) https://lazarus.turing.com/ 2. Turing homepage, turing.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company's own site) https://www.turing.com/ 3. About Turing, turing.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company's own site) https://www.turing.com/company 4. Turing, a key coding provider for OpenAI and other LLM producers, raises $111M at a $2.2B valuation, techcrunch.com. Published March 6, 2025. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (press) https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/turing-a-key-coding-provider-for-openai-and-other-llm-producers-raises-111m-at-a-2-2b-valuation 5. Project Lazarus: Training AI on Dead Startups' Code (Turing AGI Advance newsletter), turing.com. Published December 24, 2025. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company's own site) https://www.turing.com/blog/agi-advance-newsletter-44 6. Get started | Project Lazarus by Turing, lazarus.turing.com. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company's own site) https://lazarus.turing.com/get-in-touch 7. Google wants Spirit Airlines' data. Micro1 wants to pay more (Fortune), fortune.com. Published September 14, 2026. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (press) https://fortune.com/2026/09/14/micro1-tries-to-beat-googles-bid-to-buy-bankrupt-spirit-airlines-data-for-12-5-million-highlighting-value-of-data-to-ai-companies/ Last verified November 3, 2026 **Disclosure.** Bright Info is a sell-side broker. We may invite Turing to bid for a client's data. This profile is compiled from public sources; it is not endorsed by or affiliated with Turing. 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