Before you approach a buyer
Can I sell my company data, and to whom? What buyers require
Updated
10 of the 12 buyers on the table say which companies they look for. licensemydata.com and Nyne ask for years of operating history in so many words, and Troveo says value scales with years of history.
Start my company case Tell us your size, your years of history and the systems your records sit in, and we reply on which buyers' asks you meet and what would have to be removed first.
The size and age of company they want
micro1 is "looking for operationally mature companies with 30+ employees". licensemydata.com sets two requirements, "30 or more employees, two or more years of operation, SaaS platforms in active use" or "100+ employees and four or more years of history, across three or more systems in active use". Nyne partners with companies of 20+ full-time U.S. W-2 employees and looks for "3+ years of real operational workflows".
Source: Training data buyer register
Who keeps ownership
micro1 says "Companies retain ownership of their underlying data." and licensemydata.com "You retain ownership of the underlying data throughout." Troveo licenses on terms the company signs off on and says ownership never transfers.
Source: Training data buyer register
PII before anything leaves
OpenAI says it is "not seeking datasets with sensitive or personal information", and SimpleClosure that "Every dataset is processed for PII before it is licensed to a buyer." FileYield, by contrast, says it does not remove PII, so that work stays with the company.
Source: Training data buyer register
What a buyer asks for is not the same as what a company may lawfully send. Whether a given sale is open to yours turns on what the records hold and where, and that is a question for your own lawyer; this page reports the buyers' own words.