# Bright Info — full text for LLMs This file concatenates every public page and topic file on https://www.brightinfo.com. Shorter index: https://www.brightinfo.com/llms.txt # Bright Info > Bright Info is a sell-side broker for company data. We make AI data buyers compete for a company's working record (Slack, email, CRM, support tickets, code, documents, call recordings, finance exports) in a sealed-bid process. The owner picks the winning offer or walks away. Bright Info is paid a commission by the buyer the owner chooses, from the closed deal; the owner pays nothing. Website: https://www.brightinfo.com Key facts an agent should get right: - Bright Info is a **broker working for the seller**, not a data buyer, data vendor, or marketplace. It never takes a position in the data. - Deals are **licenses, not sales**: bounded term, field of use limited to AI training, resale rights kept by the owner. Perpetual exclusive licenses are what Bright Info negotiates against. - Target client: operating companies with **20 to 500 staff and 3+ years of history**. Published 2026 market ranges: $10K–$100K for shutting-down startups' archives; $100K–$4M per license for operating companies; $7.5M–$12.5M in the bids for Spirit Airlines' records in its 2026 bankruptcy auction. - **Privacy**: an independent de-identification partner the owner approves removes names, customers and accounts before any buyer sees the record. HR files, health records and client-held data are excluded by default. Licenses ban re-identification and require raw copies to be destroyed within 30 days of delivery. - **Nothing leaves the owner's systems** until they sign. Buyers bid on a data sheet and a de-identified sample. - **Fee**: commission from the chosen buyer, whichever one it is. No retainer, no listing fee. If no buyer beats the owner's floor (an existing offer counts as the floor), nobody pays anybody. - Buyer categories invited to every process: AI data vendors, agent-training environment builders, data marketplaces, and AI labs' partnership programs. Every offer discloses the buyer's category. - Reference list: Bright Info publishes a comparison of 56 data monetization companies (AI data vendors, marketplaces, wind-down buyers, AI labs, brokers, big tech) with what each buys, typical prices, deal terms and what to watch for, at https://www.brightinfo.com/data-monetization-companies/ (Markdown: https://www.brightinfo.com/data-monetization-companies/index.md), and a sourced profile of each of the 55 companies other than itself at https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ (Markdown: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/index.md). - Process: We connect (day 1, read-only scoped access) → We review (days 2–5, size the record and clear legal checks) → We prepare (weeks 1–2, independent de-identification) → We submit to every buyer (weeks 3+, sealed bid rounds on price, term, exclusivity and use). - Legal entity and address: Brightinfo · 207 C. del Parque, San Juan, 00907, Puerto Rico. Contact: hello@brightinfo.com. - Founder: Erik Rivera, a United States Naval Academy graduate and former Naval Special Operations officer before tech and entrepreneurship. - History (one company, one website throughout): BrightInfo was founded in Tel Aviv in May 2012 by Boaz Grinvald as a real-time content personalization engine (launched September 2013, Flint Capital-backed, later operating as Inhavo Ltd., ceased 2021). In 2021 the BrightInfo name and brightinfo.com were acquired by the current ownership, which took the company into data services (pipelines, data processing, data lakes for client companies) and then into today's sell-side data brokerage. A 2000-era Brightinfo.com, Inc. (Mountain View, acquired by Annuncio Software) is unrelated beyond the domain. Full history: https://www.brightinfo.com/about/ (Markdown: https://www.brightinfo.com/about/index.md). - Primary call to action: "Get your data valued" (two-minute intake, estimated range within 48 hours, no commitment). ## Pages - [Homepage (Markdown)](https://www.brightinfo.com/index.md): the full homepage as clean Markdown. Hero, market facts, how it works, what comes back, the fee question, the problem with direct offers, a comparison table, what buyers pay for, published price ranges, license terms, founder, and a 13-question FAQ. - [Homepage (HTML)](https://www.brightinfo.com/): the same content as the live page, with FAQPage JSON-LD. - [Data monetization companies (Markdown)](https://www.brightinfo.com/data-monetization-companies/index.md): a table of 56 companies that buy, license or broker business data (AI data vendors, marketplaces, wind-down buyers, AI labs, brokers, big tech), with what each buys, typical price, deal terms and what to watch for, followed by a guide: what a data monetization company is, the six types, published 2026 price ranges, how to choose one, methodology, and an 8-question FAQ. Bright Info is listed first, as a sell-side broker. - [Data monetization companies (HTML)](https://www.brightinfo.com/data-monetization-companies/): the same content with search and filters, company names linked to their buyer profiles, and WebPage, ItemList, BreadcrumbList and FAQPage JSON-LD. - [Security and data handling](https://www.brightinfo.com/security/index.md): what Bright Info can see during scoping, how records are de-identified, what buyers see before bidding, and the terms every license carries. - [Sources and methodology](https://www.brightinfo.com/sources/index.md): where every price range and market fact on the site comes from, what is illustrative, and how a range is estimated. - [About Bright Info](https://www.brightinfo.com/about/index.md): the company's history in three chapters (2012 Tel Aviv personalization engine, 2021 new ownership and data services, today's data brokerage), a dated timeline, and which names in third-party records (BrightInfo, Inhavo, Softlib, Brightinfo.com) refer to what. ## Buyer profiles One profile per company that buys, licenses, lists or brokers company data for AI (55 companies, last verified November 3, 2026). Every fact cites its source; figures the company has not confirmed are marked "reported". Company profiles are linked from the hub and the type pages. - [Buyer profiles hub](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/index.md): the six buyer types with counts, every company A to Z, how the profiles are built, and the companies reviewed and not listed, with reasons. Dataset: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/buyers.json - [AI data vendors](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ai-data-vendors/index.md): 22 companies that acquire or license company data and supply it onward; what each buys, price, deal structure and status, with sources. - [Data marketplaces](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/data-marketplaces/index.md): 12 platforms and licensing agents that list or license a seller's data and take a cut. - [Wind-down buyers](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/wind-down-buyers/index.md): 3 firms that buy or broker the data and code of companies that are closing or in restructuring. - [AI labs](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ai-labs/index.md): 8 model developers with a named data deal, program or data source. - [Brokers](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/brokers/index.md): 9 brokers that represent the seller for a fee (Bright Info is not profiled). - [Big tech infrastructure](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/big-tech/index.md): Cloudflare's paid access for AI crawlers. ## Topic files - [How it works](https://www.brightinfo.com/llms/how-it-works.md): the four-step process with timing, who does what, and what the owner has to do. - [What data sells for](https://www.brightinfo.com/llms/what-data-sells-for.md): published 2026 price ranges, what moves the price, and the Spirit Airlines reference case. - [License terms](https://www.brightinfo.com/llms/license-terms.md): the six terms Bright Info negotiates for and why a lower bid can be worth more than a higher one. - [FAQ](https://www.brightinfo.com/llms/faq.md): all 13 questions and answers, covering legality, value, privacy, buyers, sell vs license, fees and timeline. ## Optional - [Full text](https://www.brightinfo.com/llms-full.txt): every page and topic file concatenated into one document. - [Sitemap](https://www.brightinfo.com/sitemap.xml) - [robots.txt](https://www.brightinfo.com/robots.txt): all crawlers, including AI agents, are allowed; /mockups/ is excluded. --- # Homepage (https://www.brightinfo.com/) --- title: AI labs are paying companies for data they already have. Find out what yours is worth. — Bright Info url: https://www.brightinfo.com/ description: Your Slack, email, CRM and ticket history is worth $100K to $4M to AI labs. Bright Info packages it, de-identifies it, and runs a sealed bid among every serious buyer. You pick the offer, or walk away. last_updated: 2026-10-23 --- # AI labs are paying companies for data they already have. Find out what yours is worth. **Free valuation.** If it's worth selling, we make the buyers bid against each other. *For companies with 20–500 staff and 3+ years of history.* We make AI data buyers compete for your company's data: your Slack, your email, your CRM and ticket history, worth $100K to $4M to AI labs. We package it, de-identify it, and put it in front of every serious buyer in a sealed bid. You pick the offer. Or walk away. - No fee unless you close - Nothing leaves your systems until you sign - You keep your data and your business **Call to action:** Get your data valued. Two-minute intake. Estimated range in 48 hours. No commitment. ## Market facts | Figure | Meaning | |---|---| | +25% | From one competing bid (Spirit Airlines bankruptcy auction, 2026: a second bidder raised the offer from $10M to $12.5M) | | $100K–$4M | Typical license for a 20–500 person company, from buyers' published partnership ranges | | $0 | Until a deal closes. No retainer, no listing fee | Buyers we invite: AI data vendors · Agent-training environment builders · Data marketplaces · Lab partnership programs. ## How it works: one point of contact, every buyer in the market You connect your systems once. We review, prepare and submit your record to every qualified buyer at the same time. Their bids come back to you. You pay nothing. Your systems (Slack/Teams, Gmail/Outlook, HubSpot/Salesforce, Zendesk/Intercom, GitHub/Jira, Drive/Notion, call recordings, QuickBooks/NetSuite) connect to Bright Info, a single point of contact. One packaged, de-identified data sheet goes out to every bidder. Each bidder sends a sealed bid back into Bright Info. 1. **We connect** (day 1). You tell us which systems you run and for how long. Read-only, scoped access, nothing copied out. Two minutes. 2. **We review** (days 2–5). We size the record, check employee notices, customer contracts and software terms, and tell you what it should draw. 3. **We prepare** (weeks 1–2). An independent partner you approve strips names, customers and accounts. HR, health and client-held data stay out by default. 4. **We submit to every buyer** (weeks 3+). One data sheet goes to every qualified buyer at once. They bid in sealed rounds on price, term and exclusivity. You pick, or walk away. ## What comes back: offers side by side Every offer shows price, license term, exclusivity and who de-identifies the data. Your existing offer, if you have one, is the floor. Illustrative example of a bid round (not a real deal) for a record of Slack (9 years), CRM (40K records), support tickets and email (6 years): | Bidder | Terms | Amount | |---|---|---| | Agent-training environment builder | 2-year license · non-exclusive | $585,000 | | AI data vendor | 3-year license · non-exclusive | $540,000 | | Expert-data company | Perpetual · exclusive | $610,000 | | Data marketplace | Revenue share · non-exclusive | $120K + 40% | | Wind-down data buyer | Outright purchase | $310,000 | ## "So I pay nothing?" Right. We take a commission from the buyer you choose. Whichever one. It makes no difference to us which offer wins, so we have no reason to steer you. If no buyer beats your floor, nobody pays anybody, and you have lost two minutes. - No retainer - No listing fee - Commission paid by the buyer, from the closed deal ## Sound familiar? You got an offer for your data. One number, one buyer, a 14-day clock. Buyers who come to you directly are counting on you not knowing what the record is worth or who else would pay for it. - **One buyer sets the price.** It is their number, not the market's. With nobody bidding against them, the offer is the floor and the ceiling at once. - **The license is forever, and exclusive.** Perpetual, exclusive terms are the default in a direct offer. Sign one and you can never license the same record again. - **They resell it to the labs and keep the spread.** Most direct buyers are middlemen. The AI lab pays them a multiple of what they paid you, and you never find out which lab. ## One buyer means one price. Theirs. | | Selling to one buyer | Selling with Bright Info | |---|---|---| | Offers | One | Every qualified buyer, in sealed rounds | | Who sets the price | The buyer | The market | | License | Often perpetual and exclusive | Bounded term, field of use, resale rights kept | | De-identification | Done by the buyer, after transfer | Independent partner you approve, before anything moves | | End buyer | Undisclosed | Category disclosed in every offer | | Timeline | Offer expires in 14 days | Your schedule | ## What buyers pay for: the working record of your business AI labs need real decisions, escalations and handoffs to train agents. Years of history and visible reasoning move the price more than raw volume. If you have run any of these systems for three years or more, you have something buyers are already paying for. Our list of [data monetization companies](https://www.brightinfo.com/data-monetization-companies/) compares 56 companies: what each buys and, where it is published, what it pays. - Team chat: Slack, Microsoft Teams - Email: Gmail, Outlook archives - CRM history: HubSpot, Salesforce - Support tickets: Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk - Code and tickets: GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Linear - Docs and drives: Google Drive, Notion, SharePoint - Call recordings: sales and support calls - Finance and ERP: QuickBooks, NetSuite exports ## Published market ranges, 2026 Ranges buyers and court filings have disclosed this year. Your number depends on history, systems and how much reasoning the record shows. | Who | Range | Note | |---|---|---| | Closing startups | $10K–$100K | Per company, for workspace and code archives of shutting-down startups | | Operating companies, 20–500 staff | $100K–$4M | Per license, from buyers' published partnership ranges. This is who we work with | | Large enterprises | $7.5M–$12.5M | Bids for Spirit Airlines' records in its 2026 bankruptcy auction | ## Terms we fight for: price is half the deal A higher number on a perpetual exclusive license can be worth less than a lower one you can sell again. We negotiate both. - **License, not sale.** You keep ownership and the right to use your data as before. - **Bounded term and field of use.** A set number of years, for AI training only, so you can license again. - **No re-identification.** Buyers commit not to re-link data to people, intentionally or by negligence. - **Limits on onward transfer.** Resale only to approved categories of buyer, disclosed to you. - **Raw copies deleted.** Unprocessed data destroyed within 30 days of delivery. - **Sensitive data excluded.** HR files, health records and data you hold for clients stay out by default. ## Why we built Bright Info *You should never have to take the first offer for something you built.* Before tech and entrepreneurship, I was a Naval Special Operations officer and a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. That background shapes how we run a process: clear rules, every party accountable, and the people on our side of the table protected first. We started Bright Info after watching owners accept one buyer's number for years of their company's work, on a license that meant they could never sell it again. The fix is not complicated. Make the buyers compete, keep the terms bounded, and get paid only when the owner does. — Erik Rivera, founder ## FAQ: selling company data to AI companies ### Is it legal to sell my company's data to AI companies? Usually, with care. Holding data is not the same as having the right to license it. Before anything goes to market we check employee notices and handbooks, customer and vendor contracts, NDAs, union agreements and the terms of the software the data came from. Sensitive categories stay out by default, and your counsel signs off before any buyer sees a sample. ### How much is my company's data worth? Published 2026 ranges run from $10K to $100K for the archives of shutting-down startups, $100K to $4M per license for operating companies with 20 to 500 staff, and $7.5M to $12.5M in the bids for Spirit Airlines' records in its bankruptcy auction. Years of history, the number of systems, and how much reasoning the record shows move the price more than raw volume. ### What kind of company data do AI companies buy? The working record of how a business runs: team chat (Slack, Microsoft Teams), email archives, CRM history, support tickets, code with its tickets and docs, shared drives, call recordings and finance exports. Spirit Airlines' package was about 100 million emails, 500 million Teams messages and 30 million lines of code, with passenger and personal data excluded. ### Who buys company data for AI training? Four kinds of buyer: AI data vendors who supply the labs, builders of agent-training environments, data marketplaces, and the labs' own partnership programs. The public bidders for Spirit Airlines' records were Google, Mercor and Micro1. Every offer you receive through Bright Info names the buyer's category. ### How do I sell my company's data to AI companies? Connect, review, prepare, submit. You tell us which systems you run and for how long. We size the record, clear the legal checks and have an independent partner you approve strip names, customers and accounts. One data sheet then goes to every qualified buyer at once, they bid in sealed rounds, and you pick the offer or walk away. ### What is a data monetization company, and how is Bright Info different? Most [data monetization companies](https://www.brightinfo.com/data-monetization-companies/) either buy your data outright or resell it on their own terms, so they are on the other side of the table. Bright Info is a sell-side broker. We never take a position in your data. Buyers compete for it and we negotiate price, term and exclusivity on your side. ### What about my employees' and customers' privacy? Identifying fields are removed by an independent de-identification partner you approve before any buyer sees the record. HR files, health records and data you hold for clients are excluded by default. Every license bans re-identification, intentional or negligent, and requires raw copies to be destroyed within 30 days of delivery. ### Do I sell my data or license it? Exclusive or non-exclusive? License, almost always. A sale or a perpetual exclusive license means you can never offer the same record again. We push for a bounded term, a field of use limited to AI training, and resale rights that stay with you. A higher number on a perpetual exclusive can be worth less than a lower one you can license twice. ### Does my data leave my systems before I accept an offer? No. Scoping uses read-only, scoped access and nothing is copied out. Buyers bid on a data sheet and a de-identified sample. The full record moves only after you sign, and only to the buyer you chose. ### What does Bright Info charge? Nothing to you. We take a commission from the buyer you choose, whichever one it is, out of the closed deal. No retainer, no listing fee. If no buyer beats your floor, nobody pays anybody. ### Can I bring an offer I already have? Yes, and you should. A standing offer becomes the floor of the auction. If nobody beats it, you take it and owe us nothing. ### How long does it take to sell company data? Most processes run a few weeks from intake to signed license: a few days to scope and review, one to two weeks to prepare, then the bid rounds. Payment follows on the buyer's terms, which we negotiate up front. ### Can I sell data from a company that is shutting down? Yes. Wind-down archives are the most active segment of this market today, with published deals of $10K to $100K per company. The same process applies, and the legal review is often simpler because employee and customer relationships have already ended. --- © 2026 Bright Info · https://www.brightinfo.com --- # Data monetization companies (https://www.brightinfo.com/data-monetization-companies/) --- title: "Data Monetization Companies: 56 Compared (2026) | Bright Info" url: https://www.brightinfo.com/data-monetization-companies/ canonical: https://www.brightinfo.com/data-monetization-companies/ description: Compare 56 data monetization companies that buy or license business data for AI training: what each buys, what it pays, deal terms, and what to watch for. author: Erik Rivera, founder of Bright Info date_published: 2026-10-23 last_updated: 2026-11-03 --- # Data Monetization Companies: 56 Buyers, Marketplaces and Brokers Compared (2026) *By Erik Rivera, founder of Bright Info, a sell-side data monetization service (https://www.brightinfo.com/). 56 companies, reviewed 3 November 2026.* Data monetization companies pay businesses for the data their operations already produce. In 2026 most of that money comes from AI training, and the buyers fall into six types: AI data vendors, marketplaces, wind-down buyers, AI labs, brokers and big tech. Below is every one we have found, with what each buys, what it pays and what to watch for. ## Data monetization companies in brief - **Who buys company data for AI training?** 33 of the 56 companies buy or license it themselves: 22 AI data vendors such as micro1, Handshake AI, Mercor and Scale AI; 8 AI labs including Google, OpenAI and Meta, several of which are named, mostly in press reports, as customers of those vendors; and 3 wind-down buyers: SimpleClosure, Sunset and Hilco Global. The other 23 connect sellers to buyers: 12 marketplaces, 10 brokers and Cloudflare. - **How much do data monetization companies pay?** $10K–$100K for a closing startup's archive, $100K–$4M per license for an operating company with 20–500 staff, and $7.5M–$12.5M in court-filed bids for Spirit Airlines' records. - **What company data do they buy?** Team chat, email, CRM history, support tickets, codebases, documents, call recordings and finance exports. Media marketplaces also buy video, audio and images. - **Is it legal to sell company data to AI companies?** Usually, if you hold the right to license it: check employee notices, customer and vendor contracts and software terms, remove personal data with de-identification you can verify, and keep HR, health and client-held data out. Not legal advice. - **What should you check before signing?** Who de-identifies the data and when, whether the license is perpetual or exclusive, when you get paid, and whether the end buyer is disclosed. Most vendors resell to labs at a markup. - **How do you sell company data?** License it to a vendor, list it on a marketplace, use a wind-down buyer if you are closing, or have a broker run a competitive bid. Bright Info is a sell-side broker on the list: it invites these buyers to bid in sealed rounds and negotiates the license on your side. ## All 56 data monetization companies compared **Disclosure.** Bright Info compiled this list and appears in it as a sell-side broker. We never buy data and never take a position in it. We are paid a commission by the buyer the owner chooses, from the closed deal, and the commission is the same whichever buyer wins, so we have no stake in which company on this page you pick. "Watch for" notes come from public reporting, not our own claims. Listing is not endorsement, and nothing here is legal advice; your counsel reviews every license before signature. The first row is Bright Info itself. Bright Info is a sell-side broker, not a buyer: it runs competitive bids among the other buyers on this page for a company's operating record and negotiates price and terms on the seller's side. Every other row is a company that buys, licenses, brokers or resells data. Types on this page: Data vendor (22), Marketplace (12), Wind-down (3), AI lab (8), Broker (10), Big tech (1). The HTML page adds search and filters (type, "buys operating data", "published price only", "hide flagged"). Each company name links to its buyer profile, which cites a source for every figure (index: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/). | Company | Status | Type | What they buy | Typical price | Deal terms | Watch for | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Bright Info (this site) | Active | Broker | Runs competitive bids among the buyers below for your operating record | Market price via bidding | Buyer-paid commission from closed deals only; you pay nothing; license terms negotiated for you | None found | | [micro1](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/micro1/) | Active | Data vendor | Internal communications, SOPs, project histories, CRM, support tickets and other business documentation | $100K–$500K, $500K–$2M or $2M+, by published tier | License, not a sale; non-exclusive; you keep ownership; you invoice after micro1 approves the data (it has 30 days to review) and are paid within 30 days of invoicing | Spirit Airlines privacy ombudsman wants to review micro1's plan to de-identify the data itself rather than use an independent party (reported); Its data-estimate page gives payments 'typically ranging from $150K to over $2M' next to a lowest tier of $100K–$500K | | [Handshake AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/handshake-ai/) | Active | Data vendor | Slack, email, docs/wiki, finance/ERP, design/CAD, HR/payroll, field service and project management records; documentation, workflows and project history | $100K–$4M+ | Data license; 20+ full-time employees and 3+ years in operation; data scoped upfront, protected under NDA and de-identified before use | None found | | [Mercor](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/mercor/) | Active | Data vendor | Slack/Teams, email, docs/wiki, CRM, code and Drive | Not published | License; Mercor covers extraction, anonymization and transfer costs; wire on delivery of the anonymized dataset to the buyer, typically 2–4 weeks after signing | March 2026 security incident via the LiteLLM supply-chain attack (confirmed by Mercor); Class actions over an alleged data breach filed in California federal court in April 2026 (reported); Spirit Airlines privacy ombudsman wants to examine the incident if the court considers Mercor instead of Google (reported) | | [Scale AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/scale-ai/) | Active | Data vendor | CRM, HR, ERP and support-ticket records | $10K–$1M+ illustrative value per data partnership, scaling with cadence | Continuous partnership, not a one-time file transfer, designed with opportunity for recurring revenue; Scale anonymizes inside your environment before extraction | Meta to take a reported 49% stake in Scale, with founder Alexandr Wang to help lead a new AI research lab at Meta (June 2025, reported) | | [Polyshares](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/polyshares/) | Active | Data vendor | Slack/Teams, Drive/SharePoint, email, CRM, support tickets, design files, call recordings and finance/ERP | $100K to $2M and above (typical deals) | License to defined operational data for a defined term; exclusive by default unless agreed otherwise (case studies describe a perpetual exclusive license); offer within 1–2 weeks; net 30–60 once the data is approved, anonymized and delivered; no fee or commission | None found | | [Telegraph Lab](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/telegraph-lab/) | Active | Data vendor | Slack/Teams, email, CRM, support tickets, ERP records, docs/drives, CAD and code | $100K–$4M target licensing opportunities, subject to data review and agreed terms | License; you keep your original files and ownership; exclusivity only if explicitly agreed; payment milestones set in the signed agreement; 20+ employees (referral page), or more than 30 employees and at least three years in business (referral partner page) | Recently registered domain: telegraphlab.com registered Aug 30, 2026 (reported) | | [Ooak Data](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ooak-data/) | Active | Data vendor | Docs/files (reports, contracts, presentations), project management, CRM/sales, financial records, product analytics, internal wikis and code | Up to $1M; closed deals to date from $20K to several hundred thousand dollars (company figures) | License for training only; anonymized dataset retained for the licence term; raw archive deleted within 30 days of delivery, confirmed in writing; payment timing published only as 'We pay fast' | None found | | [Appen](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/appen/) | Active | Data vendor | Operational documentation, decision and escalation records, and systems of record | Not published | Defined licence for a defined use, no ownership transfer; quoted individually per partnership; paid on acceptance, not submission; no seller costs (Appen covers extraction, anonymisation, preparation and transfer) | None found | | [Turing](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/turing/) | Active | Data vendor | Chat, email, tickets, docs/wiki, CRM, support history, databases and code | Not published (revenue share, no fixed price) | Non-exclusive license; Turing is the only seller for the first 90 days after signing, then you can renew or opt out; you keep ownership; paid a revenue share from each sale | None found | | [Replay](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/replay/) | Active | Data vendor | Code and commits, internal docs, decision threads, CRM data, financial records, sales conversations, support history, presentations, product logs and analytics | $10K–$100K (20–50 employees), $100K–$1M (50–250), $1,000,000+ (250+), as published by Replay | License, not a sale; typically an upfront cash payment plus a perpetual revenue share; seller liability capped at the fees paid | Replay's founder and CEO says he started Sunset, a startup wind-down service, and the Replay site footer names Sunsets HQ Corp. | | [Surge AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/surge-ai/) | Active (buying data archives, reported) | Data vendor | Company data archives, for RL environments ('reinforcement-learning gyms') where clients' AI agents practice tasks (reported) | Not published | Not published | None found | | [AfterQuery](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/afterquery/) | Active (Data Partnerships announced Oct 23, 2026) | Data vendor | Email, chat, tickets, CRM, support, finance, industry systems and legacy tools; also code, financial models and CAD designs; for training and evaluating frontier AI and RL environments | Not published | License; you set the scope (teams, systems, time window); terms proposed after sample review; payment followed by an 'ongoing partnership' | None found | | [Snorkel AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/snorkel-ai/) | Exploring | Data vendor | Private data, through a new data-partnerships function it is staffing (data types not published) | Not published | Not published; a job posting lists sublicensing as a term it negotiates in data-supply deals | None found | | [Centific](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/centific/) | Active | Data vendor | Email; calendar; Slack/Teams; docs/wiki (Word, Docs, Drive, SharePoint, Confluence, Notion); project management (Jira, Asana); CRM; support tickets; finance/ERP; HR/people systems (e.g., Workday); data warehouses; health records (claims and revenue-cycle work, care coordination, de-identified clinical documentation) | Not published | License (you never hand the data over); one-time sale, after which most partners move to an optional quarterly refresh that becomes a recurring line; paid on acceptance rather than submission; no seller fees | None found | | [Collinear AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/collinear-ai/) | Active | Data vendor | Code, Slack/Teams, email, docs/wiki, CRM, project management/tickets, support tickets, payments/finance (Stripe), design files (Figma) and database dumps | Not published | Licensing agreement granting Collinear rights to use the data; one-time export; paid after delivery is confirmed complete, per the contract | None found | | [Halluminate](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/halluminate/) | Active | Data vendor | Company data and workflows (unspecified); private-equity deal documents (anonymized documents from actual PE transactions used in its Westworld Finance Diligence Bench; how they were obtained is not stated) | Not published | Not published | None found | | [Labelbox](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/labelbox/) | Active | Data vendor | CRM (Salesforce), tickets (Jira), Slack, ERP (SAP), CAD, financial workbooks; support tickets, health records, robotics telemetry, code (IDE session logs), video, images and audio | Smaller targeted datasets typically start around $50K; large enterprise partnerships can reach $1M+; specialized streams can exceed that range | License: upfront fee at signing plus revenue share on downstream use; exclusive by default; first call to first wire in under 21 days | None found | | [Mode](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/mode/) | Active (program announced October 13, 2026) | Data vendor | Email, calendar, docs/wiki, Slack/Teams, call recordings, CRM and finance/ERP | Company data could be worth $100K–$5M; calculator estimate is illustrative only | Mode buys the agreed, filtered copy directly; the agreement defines its scope and any exclusivity; amount and payment schedule set in the written agreement before export; no broker fee | None found | | [Nyne](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/nyne-ai/) | Active | Data vendor | Finance/ERP, CRM, HR, support tickets, scheduling/project management, Slack/Teams, email, calendar and docs/wiki | Partnerships commonly worth $100K or more; six-figure payouts; will beat a qualifying written offer for the same eligible dataset, licensing rights, payment conditions and required work | Paid under a licensing agreement whose scope, rights and acceptance criteria are agreed up front, after the dataset is delivered and accepted; use limited to model training and evaluation | None found | | [pre.dev](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/pre-dev/) | Active | Data vendor | Code, Git history and pull requests/code reviews | Not published | License (lab-facing licenses non-exclusive by default); lab-facing pricing per token, quoted on the call | None found | | [SuperAnnotate](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/superannotate/) | Active | Data vendor | Slack/Teams, email, docs/wiki, support tickets, approvals/audit trails, transcripts, archives, recorded tasks, domain records (inspection reports, equipment logs, specs, claims files, pricing/catalog histories) and screen recordings of multi-step tasks | $100K–$1M+ (indicative valuation range) | Licensing of rights for a set period, not a sale; paid on delivery and on each relicense; you approve each buyer and can block competitors | None found | | [The General Data Company](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/the-general-data-company/) | Active | Data vendor | Email archives, order and project files, quotes and costings, scanned folders; support tickets, CRM, inspection and maintenance records, order and stock system exports, complaints and credit notes; CAD/technical drawings, change requests, commissioning records | Not published | One-off price or a share of TGDC's licensing revenue; payment follows agreed milestones; you decide in writing who may receive the results | None found | | [SimpleClosure](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/simpleclosure/) | Active | Wind-down | Code and workspace data: communications, documents, designs, tickets and workflows (Slack, Google Drive, email, Notion, Figma) | Deals facilitated in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for unique assets; enterprise asset sales reaching into the millions (company figures) | License (you keep the underlying assets) or outright sale; no upfront cost; takes a percentage only if assets are sold or licensed; multi-pass de-identification before data is made available | Terms let SimpleClosure or its affiliates acquire submitted assets and later resell or license them without further compensation to you, except as set out in a separate agreement; You warrant you have given all required notices to, and obtained all required consents from, individuals whose personal information may be in the assets, including employees and customers; Founders in wind-down data sales have little visibility into who buys the data (reported) | | [Sunset](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/sunset/) | Active (reported) | Wind-down | Not published | Similar to SimpleClosure's prices, which Forbes said typically ran $10K–$100K per company (reported, Apr 2026) | Not published | Runs a data resale business and values its wind-down clients' assets for it (reported); Founders in wind-down data sales have little visibility into who buys the data (reported) | | [Hilco Global](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/hilco/) | Active | Wind-down | Enterprise/corporate data; productivity, workflow and operational datasets; code; docs/wiki; product data; customer, usage, transaction and behavioral data | Not published | Valuation and disposition, including brokerage via IP auctions, direct investment and licensing (IP practice generally) | None found | | [Grepped](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/grepped/) | Active | Marketplace | Slack/Teams, email, code, docs/wiki, CRM, finance/ERP and support tickets; also datasets and RL environments | Not published | Licence, not a sale of rights; you approve a one-page Deal Schedule for each sale; paid your share within 30 days of each lab payment, with a statement; nothing up front | None found | | [DataVendor (HUD)](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/datavendor-hud/) | Active | Marketplace | Code and enterprise software codebases, tasksets, RL environments, raw data (documents, logs, enterprise records such as emails or org charts), and cybersecurity, legal and finance data | Production-grade codebases have licensed for up to $20,000 each; opportunities usually around $500–$1,500 per task; vendors set their own prices | A sale licenses the assets for a commercial use; buyers buy the whole listing or offer their own price; no refunds; earnings available once the buyer's payment is credited; 20% platform fee when you withdraw ($1,000 minimum) | None found | | [Protege](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/protege/) | Active | Marketplace | Media content, audio recordings, de-identified health records, medical imaging, motion capture, egocentric video, gaming and 3D data | Case studies: an EMEA broadcaster earned over $1M in 6 months; a regional sports rights distributor earned $250,000+ in year one | Licence of limited rights for defined AI training purposes, not a sale; you keep ownership; revenue share paid out with each use of your data | None found | | [Troveo](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/troveo/) | Active | Marketplace | Video, audio, text, gaming and robotics data; business data: Slack/Teams, email, docs/wiki, tickets and sprints, CRM, finance/ERP and code | Business data: typical full-company deals start at six figures; video footage typically $0.75–$3 a minute (reported, 2025) | Licence on your behalf under terms you sign off on; ownership never transfers; no fees; no fixed payout schedule: paid only after the client pays, up to 4–5 months from delivery to payout | Payout totals differ across its own pages: '$50M+ paid to creators globally' (content-owners page) vs '$20M+ paid to licensors' (business-data page) | | [Wirestock](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/wirestock/) | Active | Marketplace | Images, video, 3D assets and illustrations | Not published | Dataset deals: your share of participating content × 50% of what Wirestock receives (Method 1); all submitted content enters the Dataset Deals Program with no opt-out; non-exclusive, sublicensable licence that survives termination; monthly payments (Fixed Payment projects paid instantly after approval) | Creator payout totals differ across its own pages: '$6M+ paid to creators' (About page) vs '$10M+ creator payouts' (sell-your-content page) | | [Datarade](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/datarade/) | Active | Marketplace | Alternative data, market intelligence, financial data, geospatial data, consumer insights, AI training datasets and industry-specific datasets | Not published | Annual subscription of $0, $6,000, $12,000 or custom, with commission of 30%, 20%, 15% or custom by plan; you keep ownership and set licensing terms | None found | | [Defined.ai](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/defined-ai/) | Active | Marketplace | Text, audio, images, video, multimodal; business operational data (sales, marketing, logistics); code | Average partner revenue $600K+; 5+ partners above $1M (company figures) | Dataset licensing driven by marketplace demand; commercial terms approved by the partner | None found | | [FileYield](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/fileyield/) | Active | Marketplace | CSV, audio, images, documents, code and geospatial data | Not published | Data transfer, the legal contract and payment occur directly between seller and buyer; listing is free; FileYield does not process payments or hold escrow | Recently registered domain: fileyield.com registered 2025-12-04; Contradictory self-description on its About page: titled 'the Brokered Data Marketplace' while the same page says 'Not a marketplace. Not a platform.'; Contradictory statements on valuation: About page offers to tell sellers what data is worth, while the same page says FileYield does not determine a reliable sale price; Its own Terms of Service say they are a draft not reviewed by legal counsel | | [Magma](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/magma/) | Active (onboarding companies) | Marketplace | AI agent traces/logs, user corrections and completed workflows | Not published | Licensing with revenue share to the data owner, paid as the data licenses | None found | | [Opendatabay](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/opendatabay/) | Active | Marketplace | CRM, project-management records, collaboration data, customer communications, business documents, workforce intelligence, operational data, technical assets; text, images, audio, video, code, agentic trajectories, 3D spatial, tabular, time-series, human feedback and synthetic data | Not published | Two modes: self-serve sales under the licence you select, and brokered transactions that need your written confirmation per deal; commission is owed on deals for relevant data made outside Opendatabay with buyers it introduced, within 24 months of their last purchase there (or 12 months of introduction if no purchase) | None found | | [Shutterstock](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/shutterstock/) | Active; Getty Images delivered notice terminating the Getty–Shutterstock merger agreement (reported July 7, 2026) | Marketplace | Images, video, 3D models and music | Not published | Pooled revenue-share fund (Contributor Fund): contributors earn a 20% average royalty rate on Shutterstock's data-licensing revenue, shared by the volume of their content and metadata in purchased datasets | FTC matter settled: Shutterstock to pay $35 million to the FTC and change its subscription enrollment and cancellation practices (8-K, May 14, 2026) | | [Versos AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/versos-ai/) | Active | Marketplace | Video | CEO says the standard rate to license video for AI training is about $1 per minute; specialized scenes can go for up to $30 per 30-second clip (reported) | Licensing of datasets from rights holders to AI companies | None found | | [Miro Advisory](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/miro-advisory/) | Active | Broker | CRM, finance/ERP, project management, docs/wiki and cloud storage, support tickets, Slack/Teams, email, meeting transcripts, data warehouses, industry-specific systems and code | Indicative $100K–$4M+ (strong operating datasets); $10K–$1M+ (proprietary codebases) | License of defined, limited rights; you keep ownership; exclusivity and duration negotiated; any engagement, referral fee or license agreed separately in writing | Domain miroadvisory.com registered 2026-04-06 (registry RDAP record); Terms identify the operator as Miro Advisory LLC with a single contact address (mike@miroadvisory.com); no named principals or street address on the terms page | | [AI Training Data Broker](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/aitrainingdatabroker-com/) | Active (blog posts dated November 2, 2026) | Broker | Support tickets, chat threads, CRM and sales activity, SOPs and internal documentation, knowledge bases, QA records, project histories and accounting exports | $100,000 to $2 million USD (the site's stated range for what labs pay; its FAQ adds that buyers who mention a typical deal put it around $200,000 to $300,000 USD) | License for a fee, for a fixed term, with or without lab exclusivity | Domain aitrainingdatabroker.com registered 2026-10-10 (registry RDAP record); Says it represents the seller, while its broker fee is paid by the buying AI lab and it also sources data for buying labs | | [Cognor Labs](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/cognor-labs/) | Active | Broker | Email threads, support tickets, call recordings, contracts, customer and job records, invoices, internal chat; code; Slack/Teams, docs/wiki and project management | Placements ranged from $100K to $2M (homepage) | Seller signs directly with the data partnership program, which pays the seller directly | Domain cognorlabs.com registered 2026-09-16 (registry RDAP record); Terms of use name the operator only as "Cognor Labs" (no legal entity or address), with Wyoming governing law and contact support@cognorlabs.com | | [Endless](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/endless/) | Active | Broker | Operational workflows, SOPs, tickets, records and internal communications | Up to $4M | Seller signs, Endless prepares and transfers the data and the seller is paid; Endless then licenses the data on to the labs | Domain endless-data.com registered 2026-09-28 (registry RDAP record); Contradictory terms on own pages: the privacy policy says Endless sells personal data in its Data Products, while the seller-facing homepage says customer, employee and client personal data is never licensed | | [Jottings](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/jottings/) | Active | Broker | Email, files, tickets, CRM notes, books and project boards | Observational ranges, not a quote: $100K–$250K (specialized histories), $250K–$750K (deep multi-year sets), $1M+ (rare and differentiated); most businesses will not qualify | The license can recur: the historical corpus first, then incremental corpora, then refresh fees | None found | | [LicenseData.io](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/licensedata-io/) | Active | Broker | Slack messages, email, Google Drive files, spreadsheets, CRM activity, support tickets, design files, call recordings and accounting or ERP exports | $100K to $2M+ | Term depends on contract (one-time, fixed period or several years); payment typically 30–60 days after data is reviewed, approved, shared and anonymized; any commission or success fee disclosed before you commit | Domain licensedata.io registered 2026-10-18 (registry RDAP record); The "Get started" button is a link marked rel="sponsored" to micro1's company registration page carrying a referralCode; The home and partners pages identify the operator only as "LicenseData.io": no legal entity, address, named people or contact email | | [Pewter Data](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/pewter/) | Active (launched October 2026) | Broker | Email, tickets, documents and system records | Deals published in 2026 ran from about $110,000 to $1.2 million; some firms receive less or no offer (reported) | The licensing partner makes the offer, signs the license with the seller and pays the seller | Domain pewterdata.com registered 2026-10-10 (registry RDAP record); Pewter says that because the licensing partner pays its fee, it is not the seller's lawyer or agent | | [Sell My Company Data](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/sellmycompanydata-com/) | Active | Broker | Team chat, deals and CRM, support tickets, invoices and ledgers, docs and contracts, projects; datasets and AI training environments | Illustrative example: $289K–$546K for 50 people, 10 years, 3 systems, US (not a buyer offer) | Licence, not sale; agreement sets how buyers use and keep records | Domain sellmycompanydata.com registered 2026-10-07 (registry RDAP record); Terms page gives only an email contact (hello@sellmycompanydata.com); no legal entity, address or named people on the home or terms pages | | [SupersonIQ](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/supersoniq/) | Active (eligibility check live) | Broker | CAD: 3D models and assemblies, technical drawings and building models; manufacturing files (DXF/CNC), bills of materials and design history | Up to $2,000,000, stated as a ceiling, not a typical amount; offers depend on volume, complexity, quality and exclusivity of the files | Not published | Domain supersoniq.site registered 2026-10-11 (registry RDAP record); The homepage identifies the operator only as "SupersonIQ": no legal entity, address, people or contact email in the visible page text | | [Google](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/google/) | Active | AI lab | Business records such as email, Slack/Teams, revenue, aircraft operations and audit records (Spirit Airlines data, reported); docs/wiki and code (reported); publisher content; closed and offline datasets | $10.0M for Spirit's de-identified data (successful bid, Aug 14, 2026 auction; reported); $60M per year for Reddit content (reported, 2024) | Spirit: sale of de-identified data under a bill of sale; Google bears the cost of the de-identification agent, described as an independent party selected by the debtors; certified de-identification is a closing condition. Code pilot: non-exclusive license, developer keeps IP (reported) | Spirit data sale hearing adjourned five times, most recently to Nov 6, 2026 (as of Oct 2026); Six objections and joinders against the Spirit sale filed Aug 18–Sep 4, 2026; 119 members of Congress urged Spirit and Google to protect former employees' data | | [OpenAI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/openai/) | Active | AI lab | Long-form writing, conversations, images, audio and video (Data Partnerships); publisher content | News Corp deal could be worth more than $250M over five years (reported by WSJ); at least $16M per year from Dotdash Meredith, fixed component only (reported) | Not published | The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement (2023) | | [Meta](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/meta/) | Active | AI lab | Publisher content | Up to $50M per year (News Corp, per WSJ; reported) | News Corp: at least three years; fresh reporting for Meta AI users plus training on additional material, including archives (reported) | Invested in Scale AI, reportedly taking a 49% stake for $14.3 billion (June 2025); Publishers say Meta's new business terms let it crawl their websites; after an outcry Meta dropped the word 'train' and pushed the start date from Oct 30 to Nov 20, 2026 (reported) | | [Anthropic](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/anthropic/) | Active | AI lab | Datasets from commercial agreements with third-party businesses, non-public data from third parties, and data from data-labeling services and paid contractors; RL environments, including from Mechanize (reported) | Not published | Not published | $1.5B Bartz v. Anthropic class settlement over acquiring and copying pirated books; final approval July 20, 2026 | | [Amazon](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/amazon/) | Active | AI lab | Publisher content (The New York Times) | $20M–$25M per year (NYT, per WSJ; reported) | Multi-year license with The New York Times (May 2025); display of summaries and excerpts in products such as Alexa, and training of Amazon's proprietary foundation models | None found | | [Microsoft](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/microsoft/) | Active | AI lab | Nonfiction backlist books (HarperCollins, reported); publisher content via the Publisher Content Marketplace (pay-per-use, Copilot grounding) | $5,000 per nonfiction title, split evenly between author and HarperCollins (reported) | HarperCollins: three-year license; outputs limited to 200 consecutive words and/or 5% of a book's text (reported). PCM: voluntary, publisher-defined license terms; publishers paid on delivered value | The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement (2023) | | [Apple](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/apple/) | Active (reported) | AI lab | Publisher content and images | At least $50M, multiyear (offers to news publishers, reported Dec 2023); a possible nine-figure budget discussed for paying publishers when their content is used (proposed Siri AI deals, reported Aug 2026) | Content license, with multiyear licenses of news archives proposed; the proposed Siri deals would pay publishers variable compensation when their content is used (reported) | Proposed class action by authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson accusing Apple of using the Books3 dataset of pirated books for its OpenELM models (reported, Sep 2025); Class action filed October 9 in N.D. Cal. alleging Apple used pirated books to train Apple Intelligence, OpenELM and Foundation Models (reported, Oct 2025) | | [NVIDIA](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/nvidia/) | Active | AI lab | Text, images, video, audio; translation memories; exam/reasoning items; competitive-programming problems and solutions; speech; agentic task, tool-use and dialogue datasets | Not published | Not published | Lawsuit: Nazemian et al. v. NVIDIA Corporation, No. 4:24-cv-01454 (N.D. Cal.), authors' proposed class action alleging use of their copyrighted works to train NeMo Megatron and other LLMs; court denied NVIDIA's motion to dismiss in part (per plaintiffs' law firm, May 2026) (reported); Allegation in amended complaint (reported Jan 2026): a member of NVIDIA's data strategy team contacted Anna's Archive, and NVIDIA sought to find out what 'high-speed access' to its data would look like; the complaint does not say whether NVIDIA paid. Anna's Archive later said on Reddit it never dealt with NVIDIA directly. (reported); Report (Proof News, Aug 2024): according to company Slack and internal documents, NVIDIA staff gathered YouTube videos for a new video model by downloading datasets of previously scraped videos and scraping their own; NVIDIA said it is confident its models and research comply with copyright law (reported) | | [Cloudflare](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/cloudflare/) | Active (closed beta) | Big tech | Publisher and web content, via Pay Per Crawl and Pay Per Use (beta) | Minimum $0.001 per crawl; dynamic pricing via an origin 'crawler-price' header or a Worker; under Pay Per Use (beta) each AI company sets the price for the use it pays for | Charged per successful content retrieval by an AI crawler; Cloudflare charges the crawler and pays publishers monthly, subject to settlement periods and minimum payout thresholds; named deals: Ceramic's pay-per-query model and You.com agents paying on demand for premium content | None found | Prices are as published by each company or reported in the press as of November 2026; ranges marked "reported" come from third-party sources and may differ from what a buyer offers you. "Watch for" notes come from public reporting, not our own claims. Listing is not endorsement. Sources: https://www.brightinfo.com/sources/ ## What is a data monetization company? A data monetization company pays a business for data that business already holds, or helps it license that data to someone who will. In 2026 the buyers are mostly AI developers. Labs training models and agents need real records of how work gets done, so they pay for team chat, email archives, CRM history, support tickets, code with its tickets and documents, call recordings and finance exports. One label covers companies with very different roles: some buy outright, some resell to labs at a markup, some run a marketplace, and a few work for the seller. This page lists every company we have found that buys, licenses, brokers or resells business data for AI training. It leaves out consumer data brokers, ad-tech audience sellers and analytics vendors that help you use your own data internally. Those are a different market that happens to share the name. ## The six types of data monetization companies ### 1. AI data vendors (22) Vendors such as micro1, Handshake AI, Mercor, Polyshares, Telegraph Lab and Ooak Data license an operating company's records and supply them to AI labs. Between them they buy chat, email, CRM, ticket and document history, and their published ranges run from $10K at the low end (Scale AI, Replay) to $4M+ (Handshake AI) and $5M (Mode). Most de-identify the data themselves: Scale AI does it inside your environment before extraction, while micro1 and Collinear AI do it after transfer. Polyshares and Labelbox license exclusively by default, and Polyshares' case studies describe a perpetual exclusive license. Scale AI, Appen, Turing and Surge AI also buy company data: Scale AI, Appen and Turing through their own programs, and Surge AI as reported by the press. All 22, with sourced profiles: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ai-data-vendors/ ### 2. Data marketplaces (12) On marketplaces such as Grepped, DataVendor (HUD), Protege, Troveo and Wirestock the platform licenses your data to buyers and you are paid a share when a buyer pays. On some you set the price (DataVendor) or approve each deal (Grepped); on others the platform sets the terms (Wirestock). The platforms that publish a split differ widely, so check each one. Protege and Wirestock focus on media such as video, audio and images (Protege also health records and medical imaging), and Troveo licenses both video and business data; Grepped buys chat, email, code and documents, and DataVendor lists codebases, tasksets, RL environments and raw enterprise data. Payment usually follows the buyer's payment. All 12, with sourced profiles: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/data-marketplaces/ ### 3. Wind-down buyers (3) SimpleClosure and Sunset buy or broker the archives of startups that are closing. Press coverage puts these deals at $10K to $100K per company for code, chat, email and documents; SimpleClosure itself cites deals in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for unique assets. Sunset is also a startup wind-down service that, as reported, values its clients' assets for its own data resale business, and the press reports that founders have little visibility into who buys the data. Coverage: MIT Technology Review (https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1145755/ai-labs-buying-data-from-dead-startups-to-train-models) and Fast Company (https://www.fastcompany.com/91528808/shuttered-startups-are-selling-old-slack-chats-and-emails-to-ai-companies). Hilco Global lists "Proprietary Enterprise Data, Codebases & AI Training Assets" among the intangible assets its IP practice values and sells, through valuation and disposition that includes brokerage via IP auctions, direct investment and licensing. Profiles: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/wind-down-buyers/ ### 4. AI labs (8) Google, OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and NVIDIA are the end buyers. Their disclosed deals are mostly with publishers, from $5,000 per book title (Microsoft and HarperCollins, reported) to a News Corp deal with OpenAI that could be worth more than $250M over five years (reported). Direct purchases of company records are rare: Google's $10M bid for Spirit Airlines' records in its 2026 bankruptcy auction (CSO Online: https://www.csoonline.com/article/4218769/bidding-war-for-defunct-spirit-airlines-employee-data-will-not-die.html; TechRadar: https://www.techradar.com/pro/googles-usd10-million-bid-to-buy-old-business-data-from-spirit-airlines-so-it-can-use-it-to-train-ai-has-hit-turbulence) is the public example. Several labs are named, mostly in press reports, as customers of the vendors above, and OpenAI and Google run data or content partnership programs. Profiles: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ai-labs/ ### 5. Brokers (10) A broker works for the seller and never takes a position in the data. Bright Info runs sealed bid rounds among the vendors, marketplaces and labs on this page, negotiates term, exclusivity and use, and is paid a commission from the closed deal by the buyer the owner chooses. Miro Advisory describes a similar service; its terms name no principals or street address, and its domain was registered in April 2026. The other brokers on the list are AI Training Data Broker, Cognor Labs, Endless, Jottings, LicenseData.io, Pewter Data, Sell My Company Data and SupersonIQ. Each broker profile shows what the broker publishes about how it is paid and who runs it: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/brokers/ ### 6. Big tech infrastructure (1) Cloudflare's Pay Per Crawl charges AI crawlers for each successful page retrieval (minimum $0.001 per crawl) and pays the publisher; its Pay Per Use beta lets each AI company set a price for a defined use. It monetizes public web content rather than internal records, so it sits in its own category. Profile: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/cloudflare/ ## How much do data monetization companies pay? Three ranges have been disclosed in 2026, by the companies themselves, by the press or in court filings. | Seller | Range | Basis | |---|---|---| | Closing startups | $10K–$100K | Per company, for workspace and code archives sold through wind-down services. Largely self-reported by the intermediaries. | | Operating companies, 20–500 staff | $100K–$4M | Per license, from the partnership ranges AI data vendors published in 2026. | | Large enterprises | $7.5M–$12.5M | Bids for Spirit Airlines' records (about 100 million emails, 500 million Teams messages and 30 million lines of code) in its 2026 bankruptcy auction, from court filings. | Within a range, four things move the number: how many years the record covers, how many systems it spans, how much visible reasoning it contains (decisions, escalations and handoffs rather than notifications), and whether the license is exclusive. The Spirit auction also showed what one competing bid does: a second bidder raised the offer from $10M to $12.5M, a 25% increase. ## How to choose a data monetization company 1. **Who de-identifies the data, and when?** Names, customers and accounts should be removed before the record leaves your systems, by a party you can verify, not by the buyer after transfer. 2. **Is the license bounded?** Look for a fixed term, a field of use limited to AI training, and resale rights that stay with you. A perpetual exclusive license means you can never sell the same record again. 3. **When do you get paid?** Published terms range from under 21 days between first call and first wire (Labelbox) to as long as four or five months from delivery to payout (Troveo). Milestone and revenue-share structures move the risk to you. 4. **Is the end buyer disclosed?** Most vendors resell to labs at an undisclosed markup. You should at least know the category of the buyer who ends up with your data. 5. **What does the company disclose about itself?** Fees, team, security history and ownership. A March 2026 security incident, a reported 49% stake taken by Meta, or an operator that names no legal entity are all on this page. 6. **How many offers will you see?** One buyer sets one price. A broker or a competitive process puts several offers side by side and lets you pick, or walk away. How Bright Info applies each of these: https://www.brightinfo.com/security/ ## How we built this list Every row summarizes the company's buyer profile, which cites the company's own pages, filings, domain registry records or press reporting for each fact. Ranges marked "reported" are third-party figures that the company has not confirmed. "Watch for" notes are drawn from public reporting and are not our own claims; "None found" means we found nothing, not that nothing exists. We review the table monthly and when a deal is disclosed, and the date at the top of the page changes when a row does. Bright Info is a sell-side broker and appears in the table as such; the other 55 companies are buyers, marketplaces and other brokers. We review companies that appear on public buyer lists and list only those with a confirmed program or named deal; the ones we reviewed and did not list, with the reason for each, are in "Reviewed and not listed" (https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/#not-listed). To correct a figure, write to hello@brightinfo.com. Primary sources for the market figures on this page: - CSO Online (https://www.csoonline.com/article/4218769/bidding-war-for-defunct-spirit-airlines-employee-data-will-not-die.html), TechRadar (https://www.techradar.com/pro/googles-usd10-million-bid-to-buy-old-business-data-from-spirit-airlines-so-it-can-use-it-to-train-ai-has-hit-turbulence) and AI Weekly (https://aiweekly.co/alerts/ai-training-startup-micro1-files-late-125m-bid-for-spirit-airlines-data-aiming) on the Spirit Airlines auction: Google's $10M winning bid, Mercor's $7.5M backup bid and micro1's late $12.5M offer, from court filings. - MIT Technology Review (https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1145755/ai-labs-buying-data-from-dead-startups-to-train-models), Fast Company (https://www.fastcompany.com/91528808/shuttered-startups-are-selling-old-slack-chats-and-emails-to-ai-companies) and Gizmodo (https://gizmodo.com/failed-companies-are-selling-old-slack-chats-and-email-archives-to-train-ai-2000747916) on wind-down archive sales of $10K to $100K per company. - TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/silicon-valley-bets-big-on-environments-to-train-ai-agents/) on the agent-training environment market. - Each company's own site or pricing page for published ranges and terms, cited in its buyer profile (https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/). Full list and method: https://www.brightinfo.com/sources/ ## About the author Erik Rivera is the founder of Bright Info, a sell-side broker that runs sealed-bid processes among the AI data buyers on this page for operating companies' records. He tracks the buyers' published terms, pricing and press coverage as part of that work, and maintains this list from it. Before tech and entrepreneurship he was a Naval Special Operations officer and a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Bright Info is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Contact: hello@brightinfo.com ## FAQ: data monetization companies ### How much money do companies get for selling their data? Published 2026 deals run from $10K to $100K for the Slack, email, code and document archives of startups that are shutting down, $100K to $4M per license for operating companies with 20 to 500 staff, and $7.5M to $12.5M in the bids for Spirit Airlines' business records in its bankruptcy auction. Years of history, the number of systems covered and how much visible reasoning the record contains move the price more than raw volume. ### How do I monetize my company's data? Four routes exist. Sell or license it to an AI data vendor that resells to labs. List it on a data marketplace and set your own price. Use a wind-down service if the company is closing. Or hire a sell-side broker that makes those buyers bid against each other and negotiates the license on your side. Whichever route you take, check your rights to license the data first, keep personal and client-held data out, and license for a bounded term rather than selling outright. ### What are the top data monetization companies for AI training data? It depends on what you hold. For an operating company's Slack, email, CRM and ticket history, the active buyers are AI data vendors such as micro1, Handshake AI, Mercor, Polyshares and Telegraph Lab; those that publish a range put it at $100K to $2M+ (micro1, Polyshares) or up to $4M+ (Handshake AI, Telegraph Lab). For a closing startup, SimpleClosure and Sunset buy or broker archives, in deals the press puts at $10K to $100K per company. For codebases, Turing, AfterQuery and DataVendor (HUD) buy or list them. For video, audio and media, Troveo, Protege and Wirestock run marketplaces. Bright Info is a broker that invites all of these buyers to bid on one record. ### What is the difference between a data vendor, a data marketplace and a data broker? A data vendor buys or licenses your data and resells it to AI labs, keeping the spread. A marketplace lists your dataset and takes a cut when a buyer pays (the published cuts differ widely by platform), and on some you set the price. A sell-side broker never takes a position in the data: it runs a competitive process among vendors, marketplaces and labs, negotiates the license for you, and is paid from the closed deal. ### Is it legal to sell my company's data to AI companies? Usually, with care. Holding data is not the same as having the right to license it. Employee notices, customer and vendor contracts, NDAs and the terms of the software the data came from all need checking, and personal data has to be removed by a de-identification process you can verify. Sensitive categories such as HR files, health records and data you hold for clients should stay out. Have counsel review the license before you sign. This is general information, not legal advice. ### Which companies buy data from a startup that is shutting down? SimpleClosure and Sunset specialise in it, in deals the press puts at $10K to $100K per company for code, chat, email and document archives. Data vendors also buy from closing startups: micro1 runs Defunct Data Partnerships, and Turing has bought failed startups' codebases (reported). Because employee and customer relationships have ended, the legal review is often simpler than for an operating company. ### Do data monetization companies pay for Slack and email archives? Yes. Team chat and email are the most requested records because they show real decisions, escalations and handoffs. Handshake AI, Polyshares, Telegraph Lab, Mercor and Grepped all list Slack or email among the data they buy, and Spirit Airlines' package included about 100 million emails and 500 million Teams messages. Most buyers say they remove names and other identifiers before the data is used. ### Should I sell my company's data or license it? License it, almost always. A sale or a perpetual exclusive license means you can never offer the same record again, and several companies on this page publish those terms. A license with a bounded term, a field of use limited to AI training and resale rights that stay with you can be worth more over time than a higher one-off number. **Call to action:** Don't pick one. Make them bid. Bright Info invites the buyers on this page to compete for your record, then negotiates price and terms on your side. Get your data valued: two-minute intake, estimated range in 48 hours, no commitment. https://www.brightinfo.com/get-valued/ --- © 2026 Bright Info · https://www.brightinfo.com --- # Security and data handling (https://www.brightinfo.com/security/) --- title: Security and data handling url: https://www.brightinfo.com/security/ site: https://www.brightinfo.com/ description: What Bright Info can see during scoping, what moves and when, how records are de-identified, what buyers see before bidding, and what every license requires. last_updated: 2026-10-23 --- # Security and data handling What we can see, what moves, and when. Nothing leaves your systems until you sign. ## What we can see during scoping Scoping uses read-only, scoped access to the systems you name. We record which systems you run, the date ranges they cover and rough volumes (messages, tickets, records, lines of code). Nothing is copied out of your systems at this stage. The estimated range we send back is built from that metadata, not from the content of the record. ## What happens before anything moves We check employee notices and handbooks, customer and vendor contracts, NDAs, union agreements and the terms of the software the data came from. Your counsel signs off before any buyer sees a sample. If a category of data cannot be licensed cleanly, it is excluded, not negotiated around. ## De-identification An independent de-identification partner you approve strips names, customers, accounts and other identifying fields before any buyer sees the record. The following stay out by default, whatever a buyer asks for: - HR files, performance reviews and compensation records - Health and medical information - Data you hold on behalf of clients or under a confidentiality obligation - Payment card data, bank details, credentials and secrets ## What buyers see before they bid A data sheet (systems, date ranges, volumes, de-identification method) and a de-identified sample. Buyers bid in sealed rounds on that material. They do not receive the record to evaluate it. ## What happens after you sign The full de-identified record is delivered once, to the one buyer you chose. Every license we draft carries these terms: - **No re-identification.** The buyer commits not to re-link data to people, intentionally or by negligence. - **Bounded term and field of use.** A set number of years, for AI training only, so you can license again. - **Limits on onward transfer.** Resale only to approved categories of buyer, disclosed to you. - **Raw copies deleted.** Unprocessed data destroyed within 30 days of delivery. ## What Bright Info keeps We do not retain a copy of your record after delivery. We keep the data sheet, the bid record and the signed license for the life of the agreement. ## Reporting a concern Write to [hello@brightinfo.com](mailto:hello@brightinfo.com). Security reports are read by the founder and acknowledged within two business days. --- # Sources and methodology (https://www.brightinfo.com/sources/) --- title: Sources and methodology url: https://www.brightinfo.com/sources/ site: https://www.brightinfo.com/ description: Where the price ranges and market facts on brightinfo.com come from, which figures are illustrative, and how Bright Info estimates a range. last_updated: 2026-10-23 --- # Sources and methodology Where the numbers on this site come from, and which ones are illustrative. ## Market facts quoted on this site | Claim | Where it comes from | |---|---| | +25% from one competing bid | Spirit Airlines' 2026 bankruptcy auction of its business records. Google won the August 14 auction at $10M; Mercor was the $7.5M backup bidder; Micro1 later filed a $12.5M offer. $10M to $12.5M is a 25% increase. Reported by [CSO Online](https://www.csoonline.com/article/4218769/bidding-war-for-defunct-spirit-airlines-employee-data-will-not-die.html), [TechRadar](https://techradar.com/pro/googles-usd10-million-bid-to-buy-old-business-data-from-spirit-airlines-so-it-can-use-it-to-train-ai-has-hit-turbulence) and [AI Weekly](https://aiweekly.co/alerts/ai-training-startup-micro1-files-late-125m-bid-for-spirit-airlines-data-aiming). The final court outcome was not confirmed in the sources we reviewed. | | $7.5M–$12.5M, large enterprises | The range of bids in the same Spirit Airlines auction, as above. | | Spirit's dataset: ~100M emails, ~500M Teams messages, ~30M lines of code | Court filings as reported by CSO Online and TechRadar (links above). Passenger profiles, loyalty data and personal information were excluded from the sale. | | $10K–$100K, closing startups | Deal sizes reported for shutting-down startups' workspace and code archives sold through wind-down services, as covered by [Fast Company](https://fastcompany.com/91528808/shuttered-startups-are-selling-old-slack-chats-and-emails-to-ai-companies), [Gizmodo](https://gizmodo.com/failed-companies-are-selling-old-slack-chats-and-email-archives-to-train-ai-2000747916) and [MIT Technology Review](https://technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1145755/ai-labs-buying-data-from-dead-startups-to-train-models). These figures are largely self-reported by the intermediaries involved. | | $100K–$4M per license, operating companies with 20–500 staff | Bright Info's working range for operating companies, drawn from partnership-program ranges AI data buyers published in 2026 and from the disclosed deals above. We revise it as new deals are disclosed. It is a range, not a quote; your estimate depends on the factors below. | | Who buys: AI data vendors, agent-training environment builders, data marketplaces, lab partnership programs | The four categories of buyer we invite. The named public bidders for Spirit Airlines' records (Google, Mercor, Micro1) span three of them. Background on the agent-training environment market: [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/silicon-valley-bets-big-on-environments-to-train-ai-agents/). | ## What is illustrative - The **bid-round card** on the homepage ("Bid round 2 of 2") is a worked example of what a results screen looks like. It is not a real deal and the buyers in it are categories, not companies. - The **timings** on the four process steps are typical planning estimates, not commitments. Every engagement letter states its own schedule. ## How we estimate a range Before any data moves, we estimate from metadata only: which systems you run, how many years each covers, record and message volumes, and how much visible reasoning the record is likely to contain (decisions, escalations, handoffs rather than notifications). We then check rights status: employee notices, customer and vendor contracts, and software terms. The range we send back reflects those factors against the disclosed deals above. Years of history and visible reasoning move the number more than raw volume. ## Corrections If a figure on this site is out of date or you have a better source, write to [hello@brightinfo.com](mailto:hello@brightinfo.com). We update this page when a claim changes. --- # About Bright Info (https://www.brightinfo.com/about/) --- title: About Bright Info url: https://www.brightinfo.com/about/ site: https://www.brightinfo.com/ description: The history of Bright Info: a real-time content personalization engine founded in Tel Aviv in 2012, the move into data services under new ownership in 2021, and today's sell-side brokerage for company data. last_updated: 2026-10-27 --- # About Bright Info One company, three chapters: a real-time content personalization engine built in Tel Aviv in 2012, a data services practice from 2021, and today a sell-side broker for company data. ## What Bright Info is today Bright Info is a sell-side broker for company data, based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We work for the owner of a company's working record (Slack, email, CRM, support tickets, code, documents, call recordings) and make AI data buyers compete for a bounded license to it in a sealed-bid process. We never buy data and never take a position in it; we are paid a commission by the buyer the owner chooses. The process is described on the [homepage](https://www.brightinfo.com/), and the buyers we invite are compared on [Data monetization companies](https://www.brightinfo.com/data-monetization-companies/). **The short version.** BrightInfo was founded in Tel Aviv in May 2012 as a machine-learning personalization engine that read a website's content and each visitor's behaviour in real time. In 2021 the name and domain passed to the current ownership, which took the company into data services: building and running data pipelines and data lakes for client companies. That work led directly to today's business, brokering licenses to the same kind of company records on behalf of their owners. It is one company and one website throughout, not two. ## The domain's first life (1999–2000) Before any of this, brightinfo.com belonged to Brightinfo.com, Inc., an internet company in Mountain View, California. In March 2000 it merged into Annuncio Software in an all-stock deal recorded in Annuncio's SEC filings; Annuncio was later acquired by PeopleSoft. That company has no connection to the business described below beyond the domain name. If a company database says "BrightInfo acquired by Annuncio Software", it is describing this 2000 transaction, not the Tel Aviv company or the current one. ## BrightInfo in Tel Aviv (2012–2021) The BrightInfo most people have heard of started in Tel Aviv. Its roots are in Softlib, an Israeli software company founded in the early 2000s that built knowledge-delivery software for service and support teams on top of its own semantic-analysis technology. Boaz Grinvald ran Softlib from 2009. In May 2012 he founded BrightInfo as a sister company to point that technology at a marketing problem: most visitors to a business website leave anonymous, never having found the content that would have kept them. BrightInfo launched publicly on September 16, 2013. The product was a real-time personalization engine: one JavaScript tag, a crawl that read and classified every page on a site, and a model that profiled each visitor's behaviour as they browsed and recommended the next most relevant piece of content, in a sidebar on the page or as the visitor was about to leave. It was built for B2B marketers at small and mid-sized companies and sold on a freemium plan. Over the next two years it added a WordPress plugin (June 2014), a HubSpot integration (April 2015) and an Act-On connector (July 2015). Flint Capital led a financing round in December 2014; Titanium Investments and Docor International Management are also listed as investors. Grinvald left in January 2017 to run Revuze. The company continued under the name Inhavo, describing the same engine as a content intelligence platform, and wound down around 2021. Israeli company records list Inhavo Ltd., formerly Softlib and BrightInfo, as having ceased operations in the fourth quarter of 2021. What carried forward was not the product but the idea underneath it. A personalization engine is a data system first and a marketing tool second: it has to ingest everything a company has published, structure it, and learn from a stream of behavioural events in real time. That is the discipline the next chapter was built on. ## New ownership and the move into data services (2021–[YEAR]) In 2021 the BrightInfo name and brightinfo.com were acquired by the current ownership [confirm: from Inhavo Ltd.; asset or domain purchase] and carried forward. Rather than relaunch the marketing product, the new team took the company into data services. Between 2021 and [YEAR], BrightInfo built and ran data infrastructure for client companies: [ingestion pipelines from operational systems such as Slack, email, CRM and ticketing], [data processing and normalisation], and [data lake builds on cloud platforms] for [types of clients, e.g. operating companies in X and Y industries]. [Optional scale: N clients, N terabytes, N pipelines.] The work meant sitting inside companies' message archives, CRMs, ticket queues and code repositories and turning them into something structured enough to query and govern. ## From data services to data brokerage ([YEAR]–today) Two things became clear from that work. The working records of ordinary operating companies, years of decisions, escalations and handoffs, were exactly what AI labs and training-data vendors had started paying for. And the owners of those records were being approached one buyer at a time, with no way to know what the record was worth or whether the offer was fair. In [YEAR] BrightInfo [stopped taking new data services engagements and] relaunched as a sell-side broker: the same understanding of company data, now used to value a record, prepare it, and make every serious buyer bid for it at once. The company operates as Brightinfo from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Erik Rivera, the founder, explains why we built it this way [on the homepage](https://www.brightinfo.com/#founder). How we handle data during a process is on [Security and data handling](https://www.brightinfo.com/security/), and where our numbers come from is on [Sources and methodology](https://www.brightinfo.com/sources/). ## One company, three chapters | When | What happened | |---|---| | 2000 | Brightinfo.com, Inc. (Mountain View, CA), the domain's original owner, merges into Annuncio Software. Unrelated to the later business beyond the domain. | | 2002–2004 | Softlib Ltd. founded in Tel Aviv: knowledge-delivery software for service and support teams, built on semantic-analysis technology. | | May 2012 | BrightInfo founded in Tel Aviv by Boaz Grinvald as Softlib's sister company, applying the same technology to website content and visitor behaviour. | | Sep 2013 | Public launch of the real-time content personalization engine for B2B websites. | | 2014–2015 | WordPress plugin; Flint Capital-led financing; HubSpot integration; Act-On connector. | | Jan 2017 | Grinvald departs. The company continues as Inhavo with the same engine. | | 2021 | Inhavo Ltd. ceases operations. The BrightInfo name and brightinfo.com are acquired by the current ownership. The company moves into data services: pipelines, data processing and data lakes for client companies. | | [YEAR] | BrightInfo relaunches as a sell-side broker for company data, operating as Brightinfo from San Juan, Puerto Rico. | | 2026 | Publishes the [data monetization companies](https://www.brightinfo.com/data-monetization-companies/) comparison and the price ranges on this site. | ## Names you may see in third-party records - **BrightInfo and Bright Info.** The same company. One word was the 2012–2017 brand; two words is how we write it today. - **Inhavo Ltd.** The Israeli legal entity's name from 2017, formerly Softlib Ltd. and BrightInfo. Listed as ceased in late 2021. Its product was the BrightInfo engine. - **Softlib (Softlib Software, Softlib Ltd.).** The predecessor and sister company whose semantic technology BrightInfo was built on. - **Brightinfo.com, Inc.** The 2000 Mountain View company acquired by Annuncio Software. Unrelated beyond the domain. - **Bright Data** and **Bright Info Solutions** (UK). Unrelated companies that share part of the name. ## Sources The dates above come from public records: Annuncio Software's Form S-1 filings with the SEC (March 2000 merger); the September 16, 2013 launch announcement on Business Wire; PRWeb releases for the WordPress plugin (June 2014), HubSpot integration (April 2015) and Act-On connector (July 2015); the IVC Research Center and Startup Nation Central company records for Inhavo Ltd.; and the BrightInfo company page on LinkedIn. Where records disagree on a date we say "around" and use the earlier one. Corrections: [hello@brightinfo.com](mailto:hello@brightinfo.com). --- # AI data buyers (https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/) --- title: "AI data buyers: profiles of the companies that buy company data" url: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ site: https://www.brightinfo.com/ description: "Profiles of 55 companies that buy, license, list or broker company data for AI: AI data vendors, marketplaces, wind-down buyers, AI labs, brokers and big tech. Every fact links to its source." last_updated: 2026-11-03 --- # AI data buyers: profiles of the companies that buy company data One profile for each of the 55 companies we found that buy, license, list or broker company data for AI. Every fact links to the source it came from. 55 companies · Last verified November 3, 2026 ## The six types of buyer The buyers fall into six types. Each one buys differently, pays differently and carries a different risk. The same groups are used in our comparison of data monetization companies (https://www.brightinfo.com/data-monetization-companies/). - **[AI data vendors](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ai-data-vendors/)** (22 companies): Acquire or license company data and supply it onward, mostly to AI labs, on their own account. - **[Data marketplaces](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/data-marketplaces/)** (12 companies): List or license a seller's data to buyers and take a cut or revenue share, including licensing agents. - **[Wind-down buyers](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/wind-down-buyers/)** (3 companies): Buy or broker the data, code and archives of companies that are closing or in restructuring. - **[AI labs](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ai-labs/)** (8 companies): Model developers that license data directly, mostly from publishers and named data partners, and buy through vendors. - **[Brokers](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/brokers/)** (9 companies): Represent the seller in a sale for a fee and do not take the data onto their own books. - **[Big tech infrastructure](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/big-tech/)** (1 company): Infrastructure that charges AI companies for access to web content and pays the site owner. ## All companies, A to Z - [AfterQuery](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/afterquery/): AI data vendor - [AI Training Data Broker](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/aitrainingdatabroker-com/): Broker - [Amazon](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/amazon/): AI lab - [Anthropic](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/anthropic/): AI lab - [Appen](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/appen/): AI data vendor - [Apple](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/apple/): AI lab - [Centific](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/centific/): AI data vendor - [Cloudflare](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/cloudflare/): Big tech infrastructure - [Cognor Labs](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/cognor-labs/): Broker - [Collinear AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/collinear-ai/): AI data vendor - [Datarade](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/datarade/): Data marketplace - [DataVendor](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/datavendor-hud/): Data marketplace - [Defined.ai](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/defined-ai/): Data marketplace - [Endless](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/endless/): Broker - [FileYield](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/fileyield/): Data marketplace - [Google](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/google/): AI lab - [Grepped](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/grepped/): Data marketplace - [Halluminate](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/halluminate/): AI data vendor - [Handshake AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/handshake-ai/): AI data vendor - [Hilco Global](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/hilco/): Wind-down buyer - [Jottings](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/jottings/): Broker - [Labelbox](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/labelbox/): AI data vendor - [LicenseData.io](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/licensedata-io/): Broker - [Magma](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/magma/): Data marketplace - [Mercor](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/mercor/): AI data vendor - [Meta](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/meta/): AI lab - [micro1](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/micro1/): AI data vendor - [Microsoft](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/microsoft/): AI lab - [Miro Advisory](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/miro-advisory/): Broker - [Mode](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/mode/): AI data vendor - [NVIDIA](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/nvidia/): AI lab - [Nyne](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/nyne-ai/): AI data vendor - [Ooak Data](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ooak-data/): AI data vendor - [OpenAI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/openai/): AI lab - [Opendatabay](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/opendatabay/): Data marketplace - [Pewter Data](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/pewter/): Broker - [Polyshares](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/polyshares/): AI data vendor - [pre.dev](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/pre-dev/): AI data vendor - [Protege](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/protege/): Data marketplace - [Replay](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/replay/): AI data vendor - [Scale AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/scale-ai/): AI data vendor - [Sell My Company Data](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/sellmycompanydata-com/): Broker - [Shutterstock](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/shutterstock/): Data marketplace - [SimpleClosure](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/simpleclosure/): Wind-down buyer - [Snorkel AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/snorkel-ai/): AI data vendor - [Sunset](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/sunset/): Wind-down buyer - [SuperAnnotate](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/superannotate/): AI data vendor - [SupersonIQ](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/supersoniq/): Broker - [Surge AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/surge-ai/): AI data vendor - [Telegraph Lab](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/telegraph-lab/): AI data vendor - [The General Data Company](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/the-general-data-company/): AI data vendor - [Troveo](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/troveo/): Data marketplace - [Turing](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/turing/): AI data vendor - [Versos AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/versos-ai/): Data marketplace - [Wirestock](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/wirestock/): Data marketplace ## How these profiles are built Each profile is built from the company's own pages, from filings and from press coverage. Every value cites a source that was opened and independently re-checked. Figures the company has not confirmed itself are marked "reported". Where a company's own pages give different figures, each one is listed with its source. "Not published" means we found no figure, not that none exists. The full dataset behind these pages is public. Download the dataset (JSON): https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/buyers.json. For the market ranges quoted elsewhere on this site, see sources and methodology: https://www.brightinfo.com/sources/ ## Reviewed and not listed We review companies that appear on public buyer lists and list only those with a confirmed program or named deal. These companies were reviewed and are not listed, for the reasons given. - **Human Native.** Acquired by Cloudflare (announced January 15, 2026). Its site now shows only a note about joining Cloudflare and no seller program, so there is no standalone program to list. - **License My Company Data.** Describes itself as a matching and referral directory that lists buyer programs and is paid referral fees by buyers. It says it does not buy, hold, license or broker records, so we treat it as a source of leads rather than a buyer. - **Oracle.** We found no Oracle program, deal or disclosure of buying or licensing company data for AI. Its October 2026 statement that its AI Media Models were trained on rights-cleared data names no licensors or terms, and Oracle's own pages on the subject returned an error (HTTP 403). - **Reflection AI.** Describes its training data only in general terms (data from commercial partner agreements, proprietary vendor data and datasets it purchases) and names no data partner, deal or seller program, so it does not meet the inclusion rule for AI labs. - **Safe Superintelligence Inc..** We found no data-buying or licensing program, deal or disclosure. Its site does not mention data, it has released no product, and the press coverage we found covers only compute and investment deals. - **SpaceXAI.** Only informal talks have been reported (September 2026, by Crypto Briefing and Breitbart, citing people familiar with the matter), and those reports say the talks may not lead to a deal. We found no specific data-buying program or completed deal, so it does not meet the inclusion rule for AI labs. - **Thinking Machines Lab.** Its Inkling training summary says it concluded commercial licensing agreements with rightsholders and acquired third-party content, but it names no licensor, dataset or deal, and we found no specific program or named deal, so it does not meet the inclusion rule for AI labs. - **Zendō Labs.** We found no program to buy, license or broker company data. Its site says only that it builds RL environments, evaluations and data for frontier AI labs. **Disclosure.** Bright Info is a sell-side broker. We may invite the companies profiled here to bid for a client's data. These profiles are compiled from public sources; they are not endorsed by or affiliated with the companies. Corrections: hello@brightinfo.com. --- © 2026 Bright Info · https://www.brightinfo.com --- # AI data vendors (https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ai-data-vendors/) --- title: "AI data vendors: profiles of 22 companies" url: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ai-data-vendors/ site: https://www.brightinfo.com/ description: "AI data vendors that buy, license or broker company data for AI: what each buys, its published price, deal structure and status, with a source for every fact." last_updated: 2026-11-03 --- # AI data vendors Buyers › AI data vendors Acquire or license company data and supply it onward, mostly to AI labs, on their own account. This page compares the 22 companies we profile. Last verified November 3, 2026 ## What an AI data vendor is An AI data vendor acquires or licenses data from companies and supplies it onward, mostly to AI labs, on its own account. The vendor is the counterparty: you sign with the vendor, and the vendor signs separately with its own customers. Vendors usually prepare the data themselves. They extract it, remove personal and customer details, and package it into datasets, training tasks or environments that their customers use to train and evaluate models. ## How it pays Most vendors pay a fixed license fee once the data is delivered and accepted. Some add a revenue share on later sales or offer recurring payments for refreshed data. The vendor earns the difference between what it pays you and what its customers pay it, and that figure is not normally disclosed to the seller. ## Companies compared Every value below is as published or reported, with its source. "Not published" means we found no figure. Open a profile for the full record. | Company | What they buy | Price | Deal structure | Status | |---|---|---|---|---| | [AfterQuery](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/afterquery/) | Email, Chat, Tickets, CRM, Support, Finance, Industry systems and legacy tools [1] · Code, Financial models, CAD designs [2] | Not published | License; seller sets scope (teams, systems, time window); payment followed by an 'ongoing partnership' [1] | Active (Data Partnerships announced Oct 23, 2026) [2] | | [Appen](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/appen/) | Operational documentation, Decision & escalation records, Systems of record [3] | Not published | Defined licence for a defined use; no ownership transfer [3] | Active [3] | | [Centific](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/centific/) | Email; Calendar; Slack/Teams; Docs/wiki (Word, Docs, Drive, SharePoint, Confluence, Notion); Project management (Jira, Asana); CRM; Support tickets; Finance/ERP; HR/people systems (e.g., Workday); Data warehouses; Health records (claims and revenue-cycle work, care coordination, de-identified clinical documentation) [4] | Not published | License (seller never hands data over) [4] · One-time sale; most partners then move to an optional quarterly refresh that becomes a recurring line [4] | Active [4] | | [Collinear AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/collinear-ai/) | Code, Slack/Teams, Email, Docs/wiki, CRM, Project management/tickets, Support tickets, Payments/finance (Stripe), Design files (Figma), Database dumps [5] | Not published | Licensing agreement granting Collinear rights to use the data; one-time export [5] | Active [5] | | [Halluminate](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/halluminate/) | Company data and workflows (unspecified) [6] · Private-equity deal documents (anonymized documents from actual PE transactions used in its Westworld Finance Diligence Bench; how they were obtained is not stated) [7] | Not published | Not published | Active [6] | | [Handshake AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/handshake-ai/) | Slack, Email, Docs/wiki, Finance/ERP, Design/CAD, HR/payroll, Field service, Project management [8] · Documentation, Workflows, Project history [9] | $100K to $4M+ [8] | Data license [8] | Active [10] | | [Labelbox](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/labelbox/) | CRM (Salesforce), Tickets (Jira), Slack, ERP (SAP), CAD, Financial workbooks [11] · Support tickets, Health records, Robotics telemetry, Code (IDE session logs), Video, Images, Audio [11] | Smaller targeted datasets typically start around $50K; large enterprise partnerships can reach $1M+; specialized streams can exceed that range [11] | License: upfront fee plus revenue share on downstream use [11] | Active [11] | | [Mercor](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/mercor/) | Slack/Teams, Email, Docs/wiki, CRM, Code, Drive [12] | Not published | License; Mercor packages data and pays the company [12] | Active [12] | | [micro1](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/micro1/) | Internal communications, SOPs, Project histories, CRM, Support tickets, Other business documentation [13] | $100K-500K (qualified enterprise data partnerships); $500K-2M (large-scale operational datasets or participation across multiple teams); $2M+ (highly unique, proprietary operational data) [13] · Headline: "$200k-2M+" [13] · Payment step: typically $150K to over $2M [13] | License, not sale; Licensee (micro1) acquires no ownership of the Data [14] | Active [15] | | [Mode](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/mode/) | Email, Calendar, Docs/wiki, Slack/Teams, Call recordings, CRM, Finance/ERP [16] · Email, Docs/wiki, Slack/Teams, CRM, Finance/ERP [16] | Company data could be worth $100K–$5M [16] · Calculator estimate is illustrative only [16] | Mode buys the agreed, filtered copy directly; the agreement defines its scope and any exclusivity [16] | Active (program announced October 13, 2026) [17] | | [Nyne](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/nyne-ai/) | Finance/ERP, CRM, Support tickets, Scheduling/project management [18] · Slack/Teams [19] · Email, Calendar [19] · Docs/wiki [19] · CRM, HR, Finance/ERP, Support tickets [19] | Partnerships are commonly worth $100K or more [18] · Six-figure payouts [19] · Will beat a qualifying written offer for the company's operational data; comparison covers the same eligible dataset, licensing rights, payment conditions and required work [20] | Paid under a licensing agreement whose scope, rights and acceptance criteria are agreed up front [18] | Active [18] | | [Ooak Data](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ooak-data/) | Docs/files (reports, contracts, presentations); Project management; CRM/sales; Financial records; Product analytics; Internal wikis; Code [21] | Up to $1M [21] · Closed deals to date from $20K to several hundred thousand dollars [21] | License (anonymized dataset retained for the licence term) [21] | Active [21] | | [Polyshares](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/polyshares/) | Slack/Teams, Drive/SharePoint, Email, CRM, Support tickets, Design files, Call recordings, Finance/ERP [22] | Typical deals run $100K to $2M and above [23] | A license to defined operational data; non-dilutive (no equity, no debt) [23] | Active [23] | | [pre.dev](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/pre-dev/) | Code, Git history, Pull requests/code reviews [24] | Not published | License (lab-facing licenses non-exclusive by default) [24] | Active [24] | | [Replay](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/replay/) | Code and commits, Internal docs, Decision threads, CRM data, Financial records, Sales conversations, Support history, Presentations, Product logs, Analytics [25] | $10K–$100K (20–50 employees); $100K–$1M (50–250 employees); $1,000,000+ (250+ employees) [25] | License offer, typically an upfront cash payment plus a perpetual revenue share [25] · License, not a sale; nothing is transferred [26] · Seller liability capped at the fees paid [26] | Active [25] | | [Scale AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/scale-ai/) | CRM, HR, ERP, Support tickets [27] | $10K–$1M+ illustrative value per data partnership, scaling with cadence [27] | Continuous partnership, not a one-time file transfer [27] | Active [27] | | [Snorkel AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/snorkel-ai/) | Not published | Not published | Not published | Exploring (staffing a new data-partnerships function to source private data) [28] | | [SuperAnnotate](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/superannotate/) | Slack/Teams, Email [29] · Docs/wiki [29] · Support tickets, Approvals/audit trails [29] · Domain records (inspection reports, equipment logs, specs, claims files, pricing/catalog histories) [29] · Video (screen recordings of multi-step tasks) [29] · Docs/wiki, Support tickets, Approvals, Transcripts, Archives, Recorded tasks [29] | $100K – $1M+ (indicative valuation range) [29] | Licensing of rights for a set period, not a sale; payment based on what the data is worth to buyers [29] | Active [29] | | [Surge AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/surge-ai/) | Company data archives (Surge's RL-environments lead compares the value of Slack history with Slack, email and calendars) (reported) [30] | Not published | Not published | Active (buying data archives, as reported) [30] | | [Telegraph Lab](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/telegraph-lab/) | Slack/Teams, Email, CRM, Support tickets, ERP records, Docs/drives, CAD, Code [31] | $100K–$4M target licensing opportunities, subject to data review and agreed terms [31] | License; business keeps its original files and ownership [31] | Active [31] | | [The General Data Company](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/the-general-data-company/) | Email archives, Order and project files, Quotes and costings, Scanned folders [32] · Support tickets, CRM, Inspection and maintenance records, Order and stock system exports, Complaints and credit notes [32] · CAD/technical drawings, Change requests, Commissioning records [32] | Not published | Not published | Active [32] | | [Turing](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/turing/) | Chat, Email, Tickets, Docs/wiki, CRM, Support history, Databases, Code [33] | Not published | Non-exclusive license; Turing is the only seller for the first 90 days after signing, then the seller can renew or opt out [33] | Active [33] | ## What to check before you sign - Who removes personal and customer details, when, and whether it happens before the data leaves your systems. - Whether the license is exclusive or perpetual, and for how long you are blocked from licensing the same records again. - The field of use, and whether the vendor may resell or sublicense the data, and to whom. - When you are paid and what acceptance condition has to be met first. - Whether raw copies are deleted after delivery, by when, and with what written confirmation. This is general guidance, not legal advice. Your counsel should review any license before you sign. ## Sources 1. Data Partnerships: License Your Company's Data - AfterQuery, afterquery.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://www.afterquery.com/data-partnerships 2. Announcing Partnerships for Business Data - AfterQuery, afterquery.com. Published October 23, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.afterquery.com/blog/announcing-partnerships-for-business-data 3. Enterprise Data for Frontier AI Models | Appen, appen.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://www.appen.com/enterprise-data 4. Enterprise Data | Centific, centific.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://www.centific.com/enterprise-data 5. Data licensing for founders and operators | Collinear AI, collinear.ai. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://www.collinear.ai/data-acquisition 6. Data Partnerships | Halluminate, halluminate.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.halluminate.ai/data-partnerships 7. Westworld Finance Diligence Bench | Halluminate, halluminate.ai. Published August 11, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.halluminate.ai/blog/due-diligence-bench 8. Get started | Form | Handshake AI Data Partnerships, joinhandshake.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://joinhandshake.com/ai/data-partnerships/license/ 9. Data Partnerships | Get Paid for Your Data | Handshake AI, joinhandshake.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://joinhandshake.com/ai/data-partnerships/ 10. Introducing Handshake AI Employer Data Partnerships | Handshake, joinhandshake.com. Published October 20, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://joinhandshake.com/blog/our-team/handshake-ai-employer-data-program/ 11. Prism — Real-world data for advancing frontier AI, prism.labelbox.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://prism.labelbox.com/ 12. Mercor Data | Enterprise Workflow Data for Frontier AI, mercor.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://www.mercor.com/data/ 13. Monetize your company's operational data, micro1.ai. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://www.micro1.ai/data-estimate 14. Data License Master Terms, micro1.ai. Published October 30, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.micro1.ai/legal/data-license-master-terms 15. micro1 announces commitment to spend $1B on enterprise data acquisition over the next 12 months, micro1.ai. Published October 9, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.micro1.ai/blog/micro1-commits-1b-to-enterprise-data-acquisition 16. Get Paid $100K–$5M For Your Operational Business Data | Mode, data.mode.inc. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://data.mode.inc/ 17. Mode.Inc Launches $5 Billion Enterprise Data Monetization Initiative to Help Businesses & Nonprofits License Data to Leading AI Companies (Business Wire release via Yahoo Finance), finance.yahoo.com. Published October 13, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company press release) https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/mode-inc-launches-5-billion-151600765.html 18. Sell Your Company Data to AI Companies | Nyne.ai, nyne.ai. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://nyne.ai/sell-company-data/ 19. Data partnerships | Nyne.ai, nyne.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://nyne.ai/data-partnerships 20. Nyne Offer Qualification Terms | Company Data Licensing, nyne.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://nyne.ai/compare-data-licensing-offers/ 21. Partner with us | Ooak Data, ooakdata.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://ooakdata.com/partner 22. Sell your company's operational data | Polyshares, polyshares.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://polyshares.com/data-licensing 23. Polyshares | A data lab that buys operational data, polyshares.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://polyshares.com/ 24. pre.dev Labs: RL Tasks and Codebases for AI Labs, pre.dev. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://pre.dev/labs 25. Replay | Data as Growth Capital, replay.ai. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://www.replay.ai/ 26. Replay | Data Privacy, replay.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.replay.ai/data-privacy 27. Data Partnerships | Scale AI, scale.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://scale.com/data-partnership 28. Director, Data Partnerships - Snorkel AI (Greenhouse), job-boards.greenhouse.io. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company job posting) https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai/jobs/6214981004 29. Data Partnerships | SuperAnnotate, superannotate.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://www.superannotate.com/data-partnerships 30. AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models (MIT Technology Review), technologyreview.com. Published October 13, 2026. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (press) https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1145755/ai-labs-buying-data-from-dead-startups-to-train-models/ 31. License Your Business Data | Telegraph Lab, telegraphlab.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://telegraphlab.com/data-partnerships 32. Sell or license your operational data | The General Data Company, thegeneraldata.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://thegeneraldata.com/data-partnerships/ 33. Project Lazarus | Turing, lazarus.turing.com. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://lazarus.turing.com/ **Disclosure.** Bright Info is a sell-side broker. We may invite the companies on this page to bid for a client's data. These profiles are compiled from public sources; they are not endorsed by or affiliated with the companies. Corrections: hello@brightinfo.com. All buyer types and profiles: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ --- © 2026 Bright Info · https://www.brightinfo.com --- # Data marketplaces (https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/data-marketplaces/) --- title: "Data marketplaces: profiles of 12 companies" url: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/data-marketplaces/ site: https://www.brightinfo.com/ description: "Data marketplaces that buy, license or broker company data for AI: what each buys, its published price, deal structure and status, with a source for every fact." last_updated: 2026-11-03 --- # Data marketplaces Buyers › Data marketplaces List or license a seller's data to buyers and take a cut or revenue share, including licensing agents. This page compares the 12 companies we profile. Last verified November 3, 2026 ## What a data marketplace is A data marketplace lists or licenses a seller's data to buyers and takes a cut or a revenue share when a buyer pays. This group also includes licensing agents that license content on the owner's behalf. On some platforms you list the data yourself and set the price. On others the platform finds the buyer, sets or negotiates the price and asks you to approve each deal. ## How it pays You are paid your share after the buyer pays the platform. The platform's cut, any listing or subscription fees, minimum payouts and the payment schedule differ by platform and are set in its terms. ## Companies compared Every value below is as published or reported, with its source. "Not published" means we found no figure. Open a profile for the full record. | Company | What they buy | Price | Deal structure | Status | |---|---|---|---|---| | [Datarade](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/datarade/) | Alternative data, Market intelligence, Financial data, Geospatial data, Consumer insights, AI training datasets, Industry-specific datasets [1] | Not published | Not published | Active [1] | | [DataVendor](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/datavendor-hud/) | Raw data (documents, logs, examples, enterprise records such as emails or org charts) [2] · Code, Tasksets, RL environments, Raw data [3] · Enterprise software codebases (strong demand currently); Cybersecurity, legal and finance data (strong demand currently) [2] | Well-documented, production-grade codebases have licensed for up to $20,000 each [2] · Opportunities usually priced at around $500 to $1,500 per task, with hundreds to thousands of tasks per request [2] | A sale licenses the assets for a commercial use; buyers buy the whole listing or offer their own price; no refunds [4] | Active [5] | | [Defined.ai](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/defined-ai/) | Text, Audio, Images, Video, Multimodal [6] · Business operational data (sales, marketing, logistics) [6] · Code [6] | Average partner revenue $600K+; 5+ partners above $1M (company figures) [6] | Dataset licensing driven by marketplace demand; commercial terms approved by the partner [6] | Active [6] | | [FileYield](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/fileyield/) | CSV, Audio, Images, Documents, Code, Geospatial data [7] | Not published | Data transfer, the legal contract and payment occur directly between seller and buyer [8] | Active [7] | | [Grepped](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/grepped/) | Slack/Teams, Email [9] · Code [9] · Docs/wiki [9] · CRM, Finance/ERP [9] · Support tickets [9] · Datasets, RL environments [10] | Not published | Licence, not a sale of rights; each sale gets its own one-page Deal Schedule that the seller approves [11] | Active [12] | | [Magma](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/magma/) | AI agent traces/logs, User corrections, Completed workflows [13] | Not published | Licensing with revenue share to the data owner [13] | Active (onboarding companies) [13] | | [Opendatabay](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/opendatabay/) | CRM, Project-management records, Collaboration data, Customer communications, Business documents, Workforce intelligence, Operational data, Technical assets [14] · Text, Images, Audio, Video, Code, Agentic trajectories, 3D spatial, Tabular, Time-series, Human feedback, Synthetic data [15] | Not published | Two modes: self-serve sales under the licence the seller selects, and brokered transactions that need the seller's written confirmation per deal [16] · Commission is owed on deals for relevant data made outside Opendatabay with buyers it introduced, within 24 months of their last purchase there (or 12 months of introduction if no purchase) [16] | Active [17] | | [Protege](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/protege/) | Media content, Audio recordings, Health records (de-identified), Medical imaging [18] · Motion capture, Egocentric video, Gaming, 3D data [19] | Case study: an EMEA broadcaster earned over $1M in 6 months [20] · Case study: a regional sports rights distributor earned $250,000+ in year one [21] | Licence of limited rights for defined AI training purposes; not a sale or transfer of IP ownership (video page) [21] | Active [22] | | [Shutterstock](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/shutterstock/) | Images, Video, 3D models, Music [23] | Not published | Pooled revenue-share fund (Contributor Fund) [23] | Active; Getty Images delivered notice terminating the Getty–Shutterstock merger agreement (reported July 7, 2026) [24] | | [Troveo](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/troveo/) | Slack/Teams [25] · Email [25] · Docs/wiki [25] · Tickets and sprints, Docs/wiki [25] · CRM [25] · Finance/ERP [25] · Code [25] · Video, Audio, Text, Enterprise workflow data, Gaming, Robotics [26] | Business data: typical full-company deals start at six figures [25] · Video footage typically sells for $0.75 to $3 a minute (press, 2025) (reported) [27] | Licence on the owner's behalf under terms the owner signs off on; ownership never transfers [25] | Active [28] | | [Versos AI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/versos-ai/) | Video [29] | CEO says the standard rate to license video for AI training is about $1 per minute; specialized scenes can go for up to $30 per 30-second clip (reported) [30] | Licensing of datasets from rights holders to AI companies [29] | Active [29] | | [Wirestock](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/wirestock/) | Images, Video, 3D assets, Illustrations [31] | Not published | Wirestock licenses creators' content to Dataset Partners at a price, form and scope it chooses [32] · All submitted content automatically enters the Dataset Deals Program; no opt-out [32] | Active [33] | ## What to check before you sign - The platform's cut, and any listing, subscription or withdrawal fees. - Who sets the price, and whether you approve each buyer and each deal. - How long after the buyer pays you receive your share. - Whether the licenses granted to buyers are perpetual, sublicensable or survive the end of your account. - Whether you can withdraw data or opt out of future deals later. This is general guidance, not legal advice. Your counsel should review any license before you sign. ## Sources 1. Apply to become a data provider - Datarade Provider Studio, providers.datarade.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://providers.datarade.ai/apply 2. What you can sell, docs.datavendor.ai. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://docs.datavendor.ai/sell/what-you-can-sell.md 3. DataVendor Documentation, docs.datavendor.ai. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://docs.datavendor.ai/introduction 4. How DataVendor works, docs.datavendor.ai. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://docs.datavendor.ai/overview/how-it-works.md 5. DataVendor Documentation (General FAQ), docs.datavendor.ai. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://docs.datavendor.ai/overview/faq 6. Partnership Programs | Defined.ai, defined.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.defined.ai/partnership-programs 7. Data Marketplace for AI Training Data | FileYield, fileyield.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://fileyield.com/ 8. Terms of Service | FileYield, fileyield.com. Published October 11, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://fileyield.com/terms 9. Send a sample — Grepped (export-guides.js, the script that renders grepped.ai/export), grepped.ai. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://www.grepped.ai/export-guides.js 10. Tell us what you have — Grepped, grepped.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.grepped.ai/details/ 11. Grepped: How We Handle Your Data, grepped.ai. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://www.grepped.ai/data/ 12. What is your company data worth? | Grepped, grepped.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.grepped.ai/form/?start 13. Magma, magmahq.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://magmahq.ai/ 14. Enterprise & Company Data | Licensed Business Datasets for AI - Opendatabay, opendatabay.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.opendatabay.com/data/enterprise-company 15. Licensed AI Training Data & LLM Fine-Tuning Datasets | Opendatabay, opendatabay.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.opendatabay.com/ 16. Data Provider Agreement | Opendatabay, opendatabay.com. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://www.opendatabay.com/legal/seller 17. OPENDATABAY LTD overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK, find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Accessed October 30, 2026. (filing) https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15711573 18. Protege Raises $30 Million Led by a16z to Unlock Access to Data for AI Development, withprotege.ai. Published January 7, 2026. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://withprotege.ai/articles/news/protege-a16z-30million-fundraise/ 19. Spatial & Physical - Protege, withprotege.ai. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://withprotege.ai/data-provider/spatial 20. Media Partner Case Study: Broadcaster Earns $1M+ in 6 Months with Protege, withprotege.ai. Published October 8, 2025. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://withprotege.ai/articles/blog/media-partner-case-study-broadcaster-earns-1m-in-6-months/ 21. Video - Protege, withprotege.ai. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://withprotege.ai/data-provider/video 22. Contact - Protege, withprotege.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://withprotege.ai/contact 23. Shutterstock Data Licensing and the Contributor Fund | Shutterstock Contributor, submit.shutterstock.com. Published September 18, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://submit.shutterstock.com/help/en/articles/10594694-shutterstock-data-licensing-and-the-contributor-fund 24. Getty abandons Shutterstock merger plans - GOV.UK, gov.uk. Published July 7, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (filing) https://www.gov.uk/government/news/getty-abandons-shutterstock-merger-plans 25. Turn Your Company Data Into Revenue | Troveo, troveo.ai. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://www.troveo.ai/business-data 26. Troveo expands AI data platform into five categories, itbrief.co.uk. Published May 1, 2026. Accessed November 3, 2026. (press) https://itbrief.co.uk/story/troveo-expands-ai-data-platform-into-five-categories 27. This company will give you cash if you let them train AI with your private videos, nypost.com. Published March 13, 2025. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://nypost.com/2025/03/13/tech/this-company-will-give-you-cash-if-you-let-them-train-ai-with-your-private-videos/ 28. License Your Content to Top AI Companies | Troveo, troveo.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.troveo.ai/content-owners 29. The Video Licensing Platform for AI Training | Built on ‍Deep Data Science., versos.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.versos.ai/ 30. Versos AI wants to become a one-stop shop for video training data - The Logic, thelogic.co. Published May 25, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://thelogic.co/news/ai-training-data-video-versos/ 31. Multimodal AI Training Data & Custom Datasets | Wirestock, wirestock.io. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://wirestock.io/ai-labs 32. Terms of Use | Platform Rules & User Guidelines, wirestock.io. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://wirestock.io/docs/terms-of-use 33. Earn Money Creating AI Training Data | Wirestock, wirestock.io. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://wirestock.io/ **Disclosure.** Bright Info is a sell-side broker. We may invite the companies on this page to bid for a client's data. These profiles are compiled from public sources; they are not endorsed by or affiliated with the companies. Corrections: hello@brightinfo.com. All buyer types and profiles: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ --- © 2026 Bright Info · https://www.brightinfo.com --- # Wind-down buyers (https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/wind-down-buyers/) --- title: "Wind-down buyers: profiles of 3 companies" url: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/wind-down-buyers/ site: https://www.brightinfo.com/ description: "Wind-down buyers that buy, license or broker company data for AI: what each buys, its published price, deal structure and status, with a source for every fact." last_updated: 2026-11-03 --- # Wind-down buyers Buyers › Wind-down buyers Buy or broker the data, code and archives of companies that are closing or in restructuring. This page compares the 3 companies we profile. Last verified November 3, 2026 ## What a wind-down buyer is A wind-down buyer buys or brokers the data, code and workspace archives of companies that are closing, often alongside a shutdown, restructuring or bankruptcy process. The same firm may also run the shutdown or the sale process, so the company handling the wind-down can be the one making the offer. ## How it pays Payment is usually a one-time amount per company or per asset, from an outright sale or a license. Where the firm acts as an intermediary it may take a percentage of the proceeds when a deal closes. ## Companies compared Every value below is as published or reported, with its source. "Not published" means we found no figure. Open a profile for the full record. | Company | What they buy | Price | Deal structure | Status | |---|---|---|---|---| | [Hilco Global](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/hilco/) | Enterprise/corporate data; Productivity, workflow and operational datasets; Code; Docs/wiki; Product data; Customer, usage, transaction and behavioral data [1] | Not published | Valuation and disposition, including brokerage via IP auctions, direct investment and licensing (IP practice generally) [1] | Active [1] | | [SimpleClosure](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/simpleclosure/) | Code [2] · Communications, Documents, Designs, Tickets, Workflows [2] · Slack, Google Drive, Email, Notion, Figma [2] | Has facilitated deals in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for unique assets [2] · Enterprise asset sales reaching into the millions [3] | License (seller keeps underlying assets) or outright sale [2] | Active (AssetHub expanded September 2026) [4] | | [Sunset](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/sunset/) | Not published | Reported (Forbes, Apr 2026) as similar to SimpleClosure's prices, which Forbes said typically ran $10,000–$100,000 per company [5] | Not published | Active (reported) [6] | ## What to check before you sign - Whether you are licensing the data or selling it outright. - Whether the firm itself may acquire the assets and resell or license them later. - Whether you will learn who the end buyer is. - Which notices and consents for employee and customer data you are asked to warrant. - How the firm's fee is calculated and when it is paid. This is general guidance, not legal advice. Your counsel should review any license before you sign. ## Sources 1. Intangible Assets - Hilco Global, hilcoglobal.com. Published July 21, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://hilcoglobal.com/professional-services/intangible-assets/ 2. Sell Your Startup Assets | SimpleClosure AssetHub, simpleclosure.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://simpleclosure.com/product/assethub/ 3. What Are Your Company’s Assets Worth? | SimpleClosure, simpleclosure.com. Published September 3, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://simpleclosure.com/blog/insights/what-your-assets-are-worth 4. SimpleClosure AssetHub on Track to Return $10M+ to Venture-Backed Startups (Business Wire release via Barchart/Webull), webull.com. Published September 3, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company press release) https://www.webull.com/news/15515143679517696 5. Los nuevos datos de entrenamiento de la IA: tus antiguos mensajes de Slack y correos electrónicos del trabajo (Forbes México), forbes.com.mx. Published April 16, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://forbes.com.mx/los-nuevos-datos-de-entrenamiento-de-la-ia-tus-antiguos-mensajes-de-slack-y-correos-electronicos-del-trabajo/ 6. AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models | MIT Technology Review, technologyreview.com. Published October 13, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1145755/ai-labs-buying-data-from-dead-startups-to-train-models/ **Disclosure.** Bright Info is a sell-side broker. We may invite the companies on this page to bid for a client's data. These profiles are compiled from public sources; they are not endorsed by or affiliated with the companies. Corrections: hello@brightinfo.com. All buyer types and profiles: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ --- © 2026 Bright Info · https://www.brightinfo.com --- # AI labs (https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ai-labs/) --- title: "AI labs: profiles of 8 companies" url: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ai-labs/ site: https://www.brightinfo.com/ description: "AI labs that buy, license or broker company data for AI: what each buys, its published price, deal structure and status, with a source for every fact." last_updated: 2026-11-03 --- # AI labs Buyers › AI labs Model developers that license data directly, mostly from publishers and named data partners, and buy through vendors. This page compares the 8 companies we profile. Last verified November 3, 2026 ## What an AI lab is AI labs are model developers. They license or buy data directly, mostly content from publishers and named data partners, and they also buy through the vendors and marketplaces listed in these profiles. Labs list a company here only for a named deal, program or data source confirmed by the lab or by credible press. Reported deals are marked as reported. ## How it pays Disclosed lab deals are usually multi-year licenses with a fixed annual fee, or usage-based payments made when content is used. Many terms are not published, and the amounts that are known often come from press reports rather than from the lab. ## Companies compared Every value below is as published or reported, with its source. "Not published" means we found no figure. Open a profile for the full record. | Company | What they buy | Price | Deal structure | Status | |---|---|---|---|---| | [Amazon](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/amazon/) | Publisher content [1] | $20 million to $25 million per year (NYT, per WSJ) (reported) [2] | Not published | Active [1] | | [Anthropic](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/anthropic/) | Non-public data from third parties, Data from data-labeling services and paid contractors [3] · RL environments (reported) [4] · Datasets obtained through commercial agreements with third-party businesses [5] | Not published | Not published | Active [3] | | [Apple](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/apple/) | Publisher content [6] · Images [6] · Images (reported) [7] | At least $50 million, multiyear (offers to news publishers, reported Dec 2023) [8] · Possible nine-figure budget discussed for payments to publishers when their content is used (proposed Siri AI deals, reported Aug 2026) [9] | Content license (multiyear licenses of news archives proposed) (reported) [8] | Active (reported) [9] | | [Google](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/google/) | Email, Slack/Teams, Revenue records, Aircraft operations records, Employee productivity records, Audit and fraud records (reported) [10] · Docs/wiki, Code (reported) [11] · Code (reported) [12] · Publisher content [13] · Closed and offline datasets; Datasets in science, mathematics and learning contexts (prioritized) [14] | $10.0 million (Spirit deidentified data; successful bid at the August 14, 2026 auction) (reported) [15] · $60 million per year (Reddit content, reported 2024) [16] | Sale of deidentified data under a bill of sale between Spirit Airlines, LLC and Google LLC (Spirit) [17] · Non-exclusive license; developer retains IP rights to their code (code pilot) (reported) [12] | Active [13] | | [Meta](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/meta/) | Publisher content [18] | Up to $50 million per year (News Corp, per WSJ) (reported) [19] | Not published | Active [18] | | [Microsoft](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/microsoft/) | Publisher content [20] · Books (nonfiction backlist) (reported) [21] | $5,000 per nonfiction title, split evenly between author and HarperCollins (reported) [21] | Publisher-defined license terms; voluntary participation (PCM) [20] | Active [20] | | [NVIDIA](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/nvidia/) | Text, Images, Video, Audio [22] · Translation memories; Exam/reasoning items; Competitive-programming problems and solutions; Speech; Agentic task, tool-use and dialogue datasets [22] | Not published | Not published | Active [22] | | [OpenAI](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/openai/) | Long-form writing, Conversations, Images, Audio, Video [23] · Publisher content [24] | Could be worth more than $250 million over five years (News Corp, reported by WSJ) [24] · At least $16 million per year (Dotdash Meredith; fixed component only, payout could rise) (reported) [25] | Not published | Active [26] | ## What to check before you sign - Whether the license covers training, display in products, or both. - The term, renewal terms, and what the lab may keep doing with models trained during the term after it ends. - How usage-based payments are measured and reported to you. - Limits on how much of your content a product may reproduce. - Whether the deal is made directly with the lab or through an intermediary. This is general guidance, not legal advice. Your counsel should review any license before you sign. ## Sources 1. New York Times partners with Amazon for first AI licensing deal (Reuters via Hawaii Tribune-Herald), hawaiitribune-herald.com. Published May 30, 2025. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2025/05/30/nation-world-news/new-york-times-partners-with-amazon-for-first-ai-licensing-deal/ 2. New York Times Seals $20 Million AI Deal With Amazon | Report (TheWrap), thewrap.com. Published July 30, 2025. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://www.thewrap.com/amazon-pay-20-million-new-york-times 3. Anthropic Transparency Hub, anthropic.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.anthropic.com/transparency 4. Silicon Valley bets big on 'environments' to train AI agents | TechCrunch, techcrunch.com. Published September 16, 2025. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/silicon-valley-bets-big-on-environments-to-train-ai-agents/ 5. Anthropic Privacy Policy, anthropic.com. Published September 10, 2026. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy 6. Updates to Apple’s On-Device and Server Foundation Language Models - Apple Machine Learning Research, machinelearning.apple.com. Published June 9, 2025. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/apple-foundation-models-2025-updates 7. Apple struck deal with Shutterstock to license millions of images for AI training - 9to5Mac, 9to5mac.com. Published April 6, 2024. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/06/apple-ai-deal-shutterstock/ 8. Apple explores AI deals with news publishers (Reuters, via DT Next), dtnext.in. Published December 23, 2023. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://www.dtnext.in/lifestyle/technology/apple-explores-ai-deals-with-news-publishers-756231 9. Report: Apple seeks publisher deals to give Siri AI better access to current events - 9to5Mac, 9to5mac.com. Published August 12, 2026. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (press) https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/12/report-apple-seeks-publisher-deals-to-give-siri-ai-better-access-to-current-events/ 10. Google Aims to Boost AI With Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data (Bloomberg Law), news.bloomberglaw.com. Published August 17, 2026. Accessed November 3, 2026. (press) https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/google-aims-to-boost-ai-with-purchase-of-spirit-airlines-data 11. Google’s $10 million Spirit data bid draws union objection over employee records | MLQ News, mlq.ai. Published August 20, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://mlq.ai/news/googles-10-million-spirit-data-bid-draws-union-objection-over-employee-records/ 12. Google Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train AI (404 Media), 404media.co. Published June 2, 2026. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (press) https://www.404media.co/google-is-quietly-buying-code-from-play-store-developers-to-train-ai/ 13. 400 publications are now partnering with us on our News AI pilot program. (Google blog), blog.google. Published October 15, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company's own site) https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/news/news-ai-pilot-update-publishers/ 14. Content partnerships to improve our AI products — Google AI, ai.google. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://ai.google/partnerships-to-improve-our-ai-products/ 15. Spirit Airlines Case Update: The Data Sale Slips to November as Spirit Moves to Unwind the HFS Aircraft Deal (Stretto), chapter11cases.com. Published October 14, 2026. Accessed November 3, 2026. (press) https://chapter11cases.com/blogs/news/spirit-airlines-case-update-the-data-sale-slips-to-november-as-spirit-moves-to-unwind-the-hfs-aircraft-deal 16. Reddit Inks $60 Million-a-Year Deal To Train Google AI Ahead of Expected IPO | Report - TheWrap, thewrap.com. Published February 22, 2024. Accessed November 3, 2026. (press) https://thewrap.com/reddit-60-million-deal-train-google-ai 17. The Spirit Airlines deidentified data sale: auction results, objections, and the September 30 hearing (Stretto), chapter11cases.com. Published September 13, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://chapter11cases.com/blogs/news/the-spirit-airlines-deidentified-data-sale-auction-results-objections-and-the-september-30-hearing 18. Bringing More Real-Time News and Content to Meta AI (Meta Newsroom), about.fb.com. Published December 5, 2025. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company's own site) https://about.fb.com/news/2025/12/bringing-more-real-time-news-and-content-to-meta-ai/ 19. Meta signs multi-year AI deal with News Corp worth up to $50 million a year (The Decoder), the-decoder.com. Published March 4, 2026. Accessed November 3, 2026. (press) https://the-decoder.com/meta-signs-multi-year-ai-deal-with-news-corp-worth-up-to-50-million-a-year/ 20. Building Toward a Sustainable Content Economy for the Agentic Web | Microsoft Advertising, about.ads.microsoft.com. Published February 3, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en/blog/post/february-2026/building-toward-a-sustainable-content-economy-for-the-agentic-web 21. HarperCollins Book Catalog To Train Microsoft AI Models For The Next 3 Years | eWeek, eweek.com. Published December 7, 2024. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://www.eweek.com/news/harpercollins-books-train-microsoft-ai-models/ 22. Public Summary of Training Content for NVIDIA Nemotron (PDF; section 'Public Summary of Training Content for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 and 3.5 Family', Version 1.0, Last update: 10/08/2026), developer.download.nvidia.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/nemo/docs/public-summary-of-training-content-for-nvidia-nemotron.pdf 23. OpenAI wants to work with organizations to build new AI training data sets | TechCrunch, techcrunch.com. Published November 9, 2023. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/09/openai-wants-to-work-with-organizations-to-build-new-ai-training-data-sets 24. News Corp Inks OpenAI Licensing Deal Potentially Worth More Than $250 Million (Variety via Yahoo), malaysia.news.yahoo.com. Published May 22, 2024. Accessed November 3, 2026. (press) https://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/news-corp-inks-openai-licensing-211417483.html 25. OpenAI will pay DotDash Meredith at least $16 million per year to license its content (Engadget), engadget.com. Published November 19, 2024. Accessed November 3, 2026. (press) https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-will-pay-dotdash-meredith-at-least-16-million-per-year-to-license-its-content-191756662.html 26. Meta Reportedly Signs $50 Million News Corp Deal As Big Tech's AI Content Arms Race Heats Up (Benzinga via Yahoo Finance), finance.yahoo.com. Published March 6, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-reportedly-signs-50-million-104510451.html **Disclosure.** Bright Info is a sell-side broker. We may invite the companies on this page to bid for a client's data. These profiles are compiled from public sources; they are not endorsed by or affiliated with the companies. Corrections: hello@brightinfo.com. All buyer types and profiles: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ --- © 2026 Bright Info · https://www.brightinfo.com --- # Brokers (https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/brokers/) --- title: "Brokers: profiles of 9 companies" url: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/brokers/ site: https://www.brightinfo.com/ description: "Brokers that buy, license or broker company data for AI: what each buys, its published price, deal structure and status, with a source for every fact." last_updated: 2026-11-03 --- # Brokers Buyers › Brokers Represent the seller in a sale for a fee and do not take the data onto their own books. This page compares the 9 companies we profile. Last verified November 3, 2026 ## What a broker is A broker represents the seller in a sale for a fee and does not take the data onto its own books. It finds buyers, runs the process and negotiates terms on the seller's side. ## How it pays Brokers are paid a fee or commission when a deal closes. Depending on the broker, the fee comes out of the seller's proceeds or is paid by the buyer, so check who pays it and how much before you sign. ## Companies compared Every value below is as published or reported, with its source. "Not published" means we found no figure. Open a profile for the full record. | Company | What they buy | Price | Deal structure | Status | |---|---|---|---|---| | [AI Training Data Broker](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/aitrainingdatabroker-com/) | Support tickets, Chat threads, CRM and sales activity, SOPs and internal documentation, Knowledge bases, QA records, Project histories, Accounting exports [1] | $100,000 to $2 million USD (the site's stated range for what labs pay; its FAQ adds that buyers who mention a typical deal put it around $200,000 to $300,000 USD) [1] | License for a fee, for a fixed term, with or without lab exclusivity [1] | Active (blog posts dated November 2, 2026) [1] | | [Cognor Labs](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/cognor-labs/) | Email threads, Support tickets, Call recordings, Contracts, Customer and job records, Invoices, Internal chat [2] · Code [2] · Slack/Teams, Docs/wiki, Project management [3] | Placements ranged from $100K to $2M (homepage) [2] | Seller signs directly with the data partnership program, which pays the seller directly [2] | Active [2] | | [Endless](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/endless/) | Operational workflows, SOPs, Tickets, Records, Internal communications [4] | Up to $4M [4] | Seller signs, Endless prepares and transfers the data and the seller is paid; Endless then licenses the data on to the labs [4] | Active [4] | | [Jottings](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/jottings/) | Email, Files, Tickets, CRM notes, Books, Project boards [5] | Observational ranges, not a quote: $100K–$250K (specialized histories), $250K–$750K (deep multi-year sets), $1M+ (rare and differentiated); most businesses will not qualify [6] | The license can recur: the historical corpus first, then incremental corpora, then refresh fees [6] | Active [7] | | [LicenseData.io](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/licensedata-io/) | Slack messages, Email, Google Drive files, Spreadsheets, CRM activity, Support tickets, Design files, Call recordings, Accounting or ERP exports [8] | $100K to $2M+ [8] | Not published | Active [8] | | [Miro Advisory](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/miro-advisory/) | CRM [9] · Finance/ERP [9] · Project management, Docs/wiki [9] · Support tickets [9] · Slack/Teams, Email, Meeting transcripts [9] · Docs/cloud storage [9] · Data warehouses [9] · Industry-specific systems [9] · Code [10] | Indicative potential licensing value: $100,000 to $4 million or more for strong operating datasets; $10,000 to $1 million or more for proprietary codebases [11] | License of defined, limited rights; seller keeps ownership [11] | Active (accepting assessments) [12] | | [Pewter Data](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/pewter/) | Email, Tickets, Documents, System records [13] | Deals published in 2026 ran from about $110,000 to $1.2 million; some firms receive less or no offer (reported) [13] | The licensing partner makes the offer, signs the license with the seller and pays the seller [13] | Active (launched October 2026) [13] | | [Sell My Company Data](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/sellmycompanydata-com/) | Team chat, Deals & CRM, Support tickets, Invoices & ledgers, Docs & contracts, Projects [14] · Datasets, AI training environments [14] | Illustrative example: $289K–$546K for 50 people, 10 years, 3 systems, US (not a buyer offer) [14] | Licence, not sale; agreement sets how buyers use and keep records [14] | Active [14] | | [SupersonIQ](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/supersoniq/) | CAD: 3D models and assemblies, CAD: technical drawings, CAD: building models [15] · Manufacturing files (DXF/CNC), Bills of materials, Design history [15] | Up to $2,000,000, stated as a ceiling, not a typical amount; offers depend on volume, complexity, quality and exclusivity of the files [15] | Not published | Active (eligibility check live) [15] | ## What to check before you sign - Who pays the broker, how much, and when. - Whether the broker represents only you or also sources data for buyers. - Any exclusivity period in the broker agreement. - How many buyers the broker will approach, and whether you see each offer. - Who operates the broker: the legal entity, an address and named people. This is general guidance, not legal advice. Your counsel should review any license before you sign. ## Sources 1. AI Training Data Broker: license company data to AI labs, aitrainingdatabroker.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://aitrainingdatabroker.com/ 2. Cognor Labs — Data licensing for companies, cognorlabs.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.cognorlabs.com/ 3. Cognor Labs — For companies that have closed, cognorlabs.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.cognorlabs.com/defunct 4. Endless — License your company's operational data to AI labs, endless-data.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://endless-data.com/ 5. Your Business May Be Sitting on a Six-Figure AI Data Asset | Jottings, jottings.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://jottings.ai/ 6. We get paid when you do · Jottings.AI, jottings.ai. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://jottings.ai/how-we-get-paid 7. Data Licensing · Jottings.AI, jottings.ai. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://jottings.ai/licensing 8. License My Company Data | Sell My Company Data | Free Estimate, licensedata.io. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://licensedata.io/ 9. Operating Data | Miro Advisory, miroadvisory.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.miroadvisory.com/for-businesses 10. Private Codebases | Miro Advisory, miroadvisory.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.miroadvisory.com/for-software-companies 11. FAQ | Miro Advisory, miroadvisory.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.miroadvisory.com/faq 12. License the Data Your Business Creates | Miro Advisory, miroadvisory.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://www.miroadvisory.com/ 13. Pewter Data | Business data licensing for AI, pewterdata.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://pewterdata.com/ 14. License Your Company Data to AI Labs | Sell My Company Data, sellmycompanydata.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://sellmycompanydata.com/ 15. SupersonIQ | Get Paid Up to $2,000,000 for Your Company's CAD Files, supersoniq.site. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://supersoniq.site/ **Disclosure.** Bright Info is a sell-side broker. We may invite the companies on this page to bid for a client's data. These profiles are compiled from public sources; they are not endorsed by or affiliated with the companies. Corrections: hello@brightinfo.com. All buyer types and profiles: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ --- © 2026 Bright Info · https://www.brightinfo.com --- # Big tech infrastructure (https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/big-tech/) --- title: "Big tech infrastructure: profiles of 1 company" url: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/big-tech/ site: https://www.brightinfo.com/ description: "Big tech infrastructure that buy, license or broker company data for AI: what each buys, its published price, deal structure and status, with a source for every fact." last_updated: 2026-11-03 --- # Big tech infrastructure Buyers › Big tech infrastructure Infrastructure that charges AI companies for access to web content and pays the site owner. This page compares the 1 company we profile. Last verified November 3, 2026 ## What big tech infrastructure is Infrastructure companies that sit between websites and AI crawlers can charge AI companies for access to content. They monetize public web content rather than internal company records, so they sit in their own category. ## How it pays The infrastructure company charges the AI company when it accesses content and pays the site owner. The price, the payout schedule and any minimum payout are set in the program's terms. ## Companies compared Every value below is as published or reported, with its source. "Not published" means we found no figure. Open a profile for the full record. | Company | What they buy | Price | Deal structure | Status | |---|---|---|---|---| | [Cloudflare](https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/cloudflare/) | Publisher content, Web content [1] | Minimum $0.001 USD per crawl [2] | Cloudflare aggregates the charge events, charges the crawler and distributes the earnings to the publisher [3] · Pay Per Use: Cloudflare aggregates reported uses, charges the buyer and pays publishers monthly through their connected payment account [4] | Active (closed beta) [1] | ## What to check before you sign - Who sets the price and whether it can differ by page or by use. - Settlement periods and minimum payout thresholds. - Which crawlers or uses are charged and which are blocked or allowed free. - What you need to join, such as hosting or DNS on the provider. This is general guidance, not legal advice. Your counsel should review any license before you sign. ## Sources 1. What is Pay Per Crawl? · Cloudflare AI Crawl Control docs, developers.cloudflare.com. Published July 28, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-crawl-control/features/pay-per-crawl/what-is-pay-per-crawl/ 2. Set a pay per crawl price · Cloudflare AI Crawl Control docs, developers.cloudflare.com. Published July 28, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-crawl-control/features/pay-per-crawl/use-pay-per-crawl-as-site-owner/set-a-pay-per-crawl-price/ 3. Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access | Cloudflare Blog, blog.cloudflare.com. Published July 1, 2025. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company statement) https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/ 4. Pay Per Use: when AI uses your work, you should get paid, blog.cloudflare.com. Published September 30, 2026. Accessed November 3, 2026. (company statement) https://blog.cloudflare.com/pay-per-use/ **Disclosure.** Bright Info is a sell-side broker. We may invite the companies on this page to bid for a client's data. These profiles are compiled from public sources; they are not endorsed by or affiliated with the companies. Corrections: hello@brightinfo.com. All buyer types and profiles: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ --- © 2026 Bright Info · https://www.brightinfo.com