AI data buyers for defunct startups: 5 buyers
This list of AI data buyers for defunct startups holds 5 buyers. Of the 5, 3 publish a price anchor. The first three are micro1 ($100k to $2M per company; tiers $100k / $500k / $1M+), Sell My Codebase ($100 per 1M source-code tokens; $40 per 1M git-history tokens, per license (illustrative, conservative; verified by the site on 10 Oct 2026)) and SimpleClosure Asset Hub ($10k to $100k per deal; one code deal $25k). 3 of the 5 license non-exclusively.
Sells for: companies, defunct startups, agencies.
Buyers named: frontier labs (unnamed).
Listed for a published rate and reported payouts.
Sells for: developers, agencies, startups, defunct startups, companies.
Buyers named: AI labs (unnamed); one licensing program (unnamed).
Listed for a published rate, non-exclusive terms and reported program payouts.
Sells for: defunct startups.
Buyers named: Surge AI and other labs.
Listed for a published rate and non-exclusive terms.
Sells for: defunct startups, domain experts.
Buyers named: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, Meta.
Listed for reported payouts and named lab customers.
Sells for: defunct startups, companies.
Buyers named: labs.
Listed for reported payouts and a stated payout model.
What differs for AI data buyers for defunct startups
Between them, the 5 buyers cover 3 data hubs: code (4), company data (4) and expert and RL data (1). The payout models they publish are upfront (3), per token (1) and negotiated deal (1). What a founder winding down brings to these buyers is usually the code, workspaces and documents of a company that has stopped trading.
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