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What this market has actually paid

Every line carries a primary source you can open. Where a figure was never disclosed the row says so rather than guessing, because a market where most prices stay private is the thing a seller most needs to know before they read anybody's estimate.

Hilco Streambank, as agent to the estate

Filed 2026

Court-approved sale of a company's records and customer data, run by a specialist broker

$5,901,800 gross, $625,225 commission on a 7.5 / 10 / 12.5 per cent ladder

Final report filed with the court

micro1

Live

Published bands for a company data partnership

$100,000 and up, $500,000 for multi-team ongoing, $1,000,000 for highly unique operational data

Its own data partnerships pagepublished about itself

micro1

Terms dated 2025

Published bounty for introducing a company that goes on to license

$50,000, uncapped, paid on acceptance for a corpus deal

Its own referral programme termspublished about itself

Polyshares

Live

Published range paid to a company for a licence to its operating record

$100,000 to $2,000,000, no fee to the seller, net 30 to 60

Its own terms pagepublished about itself

Troveo

Live

Total paid out to the owners of licensed data

More than $20,000,000 across 40 plus active buyers

Its own business data pagepublished about itself

Cloudflare and Human Native AI

15 January 2026

Acquisition of a data licensing marketplace by an infrastructure company

Terms undisclosed

Cloudflare press release

Protege, led by a16z

January 2026

Series A extension into a data licensing marketplace

$30,000,000, on top of $25,000,000, $65,000,000 raised since 2024

Its own announcementpublished about itself

SimpleClosure

Live

Referral ladder published for introducing a company into a wind-down, where its assets are then listed

$100 to $1,000 by deal size, paid on the wind-down rather than on the asset sale

Its own referral pagepublished about itself

Petrarch, Y Combinator S26

2026

Sourcing codebases, project files and payments out of bankruptcy estates

Terms undisclosed, no price published anywhere

Its Y Combinator profile

FileYield

Live

A second public ledger of reported deals, kept to the same rule

27 reported transactions, 2023 to 2026

Its own sources pagepublished about itself

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