Sell company data as a founder winding down: 4 buyers
This list of company data buyers for defunct startups holds 4 buyers. Of the 4, 2 publish a price anchor. The first three are micro1 ($100k to $2M per company; tiers $100k / $500k / $1M+), SimpleClosure Asset Hub ($10k to $100k per deal; one code deal $25k) and Surge AI (price not published). 2 of the 4 license non-exclusively. By type, the list holds 2 brokers, 1 marketplace and 1 direct buyer.
Sells for: companies, defunct startups, agencies.
Buyers named: frontier labs (unnamed).
Listed for a published rate and reported 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 sell company data as a founder winding down
A founder winding down usually has the code, workspaces and documents of a company that has stopped trading. All 4 name defunct startups among the sellers they buy from, and 1 buys from no other seller type. 3 of the 4 name company data explicitly as a data type. The payout models they use are upfront (3) and negotiated deal (1).
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