Deal ledger

What this market has actually paid

Last checked 16 September 2026

Undisclosed figures are marked, never guessed.

The ledger

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micro1Published bands for a company data partnershipPublished price band$100,000 and up, $500,000 for multi-team ongoing, $1,000,000 for highly unique operational dataLiveIts own data partnerships pagepublished about itself
PolysharesPublished range paid to a company for a licence to its operating recordPublished price band$100K to $2M, no fee to the seller, net 30 to 60LiveIts own terms pagepublished about itself
TroveoTotal paid out to the owners of licensed dataPayout totalMore than $20,000,000 across 40 plus active buyersLiveIts own business data pagepublished about itself
SimpleClosureReferral ladder published for introducing a company into a wind-down, where its assets are then listedReferral fee$100 to $1,000 by deal size, paid on the wind-down rather than on the asset saleLiveIts own referral pagepublished about itself
FileYieldA second public ledger of reported deals, kept to the same ruleDeal ledger27 reported transactions, 2023 to 2026LiveIts own sources pagepublished about itself
Hilco Streambank, as agent to the estateCourt-approved sale of a company's records and customer data, run by a specialist brokerCourt sale$5,901,800 gross, $625,225 commission on a 7.5 / 10 / 12.5 per cent ladderFiled 2026Final report filed with the court
Cloudflare and Human Native AIAcquisition of a data licensing marketplace by an infrastructure companyAcquisitionTerms undisclosed15 January 2026Cloudflare press release
Protege, led by a16zSeries A extension into a data licensing marketplaceFunding round$30,000,000, on top of $25,000,000, $65,000,000 raised since 2024January 2026Its own announcementpublished about itself
Petrarch, Y Combinator S26Sourcing codebases, project files and payments out of bankruptcy estatesSourcing programmeTerms undisclosed, no price published anywhere2026Its Y Combinator profile
micro1Published bounty for introducing a company that goes on to licenseReferral fee$50,000, uncapped, paid on acceptance for a corpus dealTerms dated 2025Its own referral programme termspublished about itself

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Links checked 16 September 2026. Dead sources come off. Additions: lillian@artemisdataco.com.