01Top pick
Updated October 2026
Best places to sell your company's data
micro1 ranks first for companies licensing operating data: it publishes a $100K-$2M+ range per package[1], has committed $1B to buying company data[19], and lets sellers keep ownership. Polyshares says a third party scrubs personal data before licensing[20]. Most buyers pay within 2-8 weeks of signing, and some pay only after they accept the data[5, 10, 21, 22, 23].
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Polyshares
Buys Slack, email, CRM, tickets, calls and ERP records and licenses them to labs.
Best forSellers who want a third party to scrub personal data first
- $100K to $2M+, Polyshares says3
- None, Polyshares says4
- An offer in 1 to 2 weeks, then paid in 30 to 60 days5
Watch out for: Exclusive by default, and every deal it lists is exclusive with no end date.6,7
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SimpleClosure
Sells the Slack and email archives of wound-down startups.
Best forStartups that have shut down or are winding down
- Usually $10K to $100K for a closed startup15
Watch out for: Built for startups that are shutting down, so deals are smaller.15
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Troveo
Licenses company data to AI buyers and splits the revenue.
Best forSellers who want to license, not sell, and share in ongoing revenue
- Six figures and up for a whole company, Troveo says16
- A share of the revenue; the percentage is not published17
Watch out for: You are paid from a revenue share, so ask what percentage you keep.17
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Handshake AI
Licenses company data through its data partnerships program.
Best forCompanies with 20+ full-time staff and 3+ years of records
Watch out for: Publishes no offer range, payment timing or privacy terms.18
How we scoreBuyers of company data: five criteria, published weightsShowHide
Offer size and evidence30%
Privacy and de-identification25%
Contract clarity20%
Speed to payment15%
Track record10%
A score is published only when criteria worth at least 35% of the weight are evidenced. The overall score is the weighted mean of the evidenced criteria. Commissions are never an input. Full methodology
What the buyer handles
What each buyer says it does for you
Who removes personal data, what it costs you, how fast you are paid and who qualifies, in each buyer's own words.
| Fact | Value and source |
|---|---|
| Personal data | A third-party PII partner scrubs data before it is licensed |
| Excluded data | Data held on behalf of clients is excluded |
| Personal data | PII removed "when relevant" |
| Ownership and review | The company keeps ownership of its data and reviews samples before release |
| Security attestation | SOC 2 Type II |
| Seller fees | No fees |
| Seller fees | Charges sellers no fee |
| Time to payment | Wire 2-4 weeks after signing |
| Time to offer and payment | Offer 1-2 weeks after intake; paid Net 30-60 |
| Who can sell | Companies with 30+ employees, US first, mostly English data |
| Who can sell | 20+ US W-2 employees and 3+ years in business |
| Who can sell | Companies with 20+ full-time employees and 3+ years in operation |
Legal questions go to the licensing company. We do not give legal advice. Ask the buyer you are talking to: their team reviews what can be licensed with you, and you should bring your own counsel.
Price precedents
What data has actually sold for
Published deals, from book rights to whole-company archives. Large media deals set the ceiling; operating-company ranges are the realistic band for most sellers.
| Fact | Value and source |
|---|---|
| Reddit data licensing | $203.0M aggregate contract value, 2-3 year terms |
| Reddit and Google | About $60M a year (Reuters, citing sources) |
| News Corp and OpenAI | More than $250M over 5 years (WSJ) |
| Wiley | $23M with an unnamed technology company |
| Axel Springer and OpenAI | About $13M a year |
| Financial Times and OpenAI | $5M-$10M a year |
| Spirit Airlines internal archive | $10M from Google, against a $7.5M Mercor bid |
| HarperCollins | $5,000 per book for 3 years, split $2,500 author and $2,500 publisher |
| License price range | $100K-$2M+ per data package; over $1M for unique data |
| Deals closed | 150+ data deals for wound-down startups, typically $10K-$100K each |
FAQ
Selling company data: questions, answered
Each audience has its own published rubric of five weighted criteria, and every sub-score cites the facts behind it. A score appears only when we can evidence at least 35% of the rubric's weight; otherwise the card says there is not enough public data. Commissions never enter the calculation.
Yes, and in 2026 it became a real market. micro1 committed $1B over 12 months to licensing company data, Mercor and Polyshares buy Slack, email, CRM and ticket history, and labs are buying the archives of startups that shut down. Each buyer reviews with you what can be licensed and how personal data is handled.19,37,38,39
micro1 publishes a range of $100K to $2M+ per data package, and over $1M for unique data. Polyshares states a typical $100K to $2M+, and Nyne $100K or more. Mercor and Handshake do not publish offer ranges. For a sense of the top end, Google bid $10M for Spirit Airlines' archive against Mercor's $7.5M.1,3,13,8,35
Buyers want records of real work: Slack and Teams messages, email, docs and wikis, CRM and ticket history, code, calls, and finance and project data. micro1 lists SOPs, knowledge bases and project history; Mercor lists Slack, Gmail, Salesforce, GitHub and 100+ other tools; Nyne buys QuickBooks, NetSuite, HubSpot and Jira data.40,37,38,41
No. We do not answer legal questions, and nothing on this site is legal advice. Ask the licensing company: buyers such as micro1 and Polyshares review what can be licensed with you and say how personal data is removed before anything is transferred. Bring your own counsel into that conversation.25,20
Most buyers pay within 2-8 weeks of signing: Mercor says 2-4 weeks, Cognor Labs puts its process at 3-6 weeks, and Polyshares, Ventra and Your Data Value 30 to 60 days. Some pay only after they accept the data: micro1 has 30 business days to reject a delivery, and you invoice after written acceptance. Offers usually come sooner, from 3-7 days at Ventra to 1-2 weeks at Polyshares.10,42,5,21,22,23
Published ranges run from $10K to $100K for a closed startup to $100K to $2M+ for an operating company, with over $1M for unique data. Large archives go higher: Google bid $10M for Spirit Airlines' archive. Headcount, years of history and records that link across systems push the value up.15,1,3,43,21,44,35
Sometimes. micro1's company referral terms set a default 7.5% of the license price, Pewter pays us 10% of what a business it works with is paid, up to $100,000, and Polyshares pays us 6% of eligible deals. Handshake's $10K per company is a program we have not joined. The buyer pays the fee, not you, and no fee ever changes a score.45,46,47,48