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 2026Court-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
micro1
LivePublished 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 2025Published 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
LivePublished 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
LiveTotal 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 2026Acquisition of a data licensing marketplace by an infrastructure company
Terms undisclosed
Protege, led by a16z
January 2026Series 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
LiveReferral 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
2026Sourcing codebases, project files and payments out of bankruptcy estates
Terms undisclosed, no price published anywhere
FileYield
LiveA 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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