Data Licensing & Private Data
A market map of who to talk to when licensing or selling data for AI, compiled by AI Circle (November 2026): direct data buyers, licensing brokers and marketplaces, company-records licensors, wind-down and asset-sale firms, licensed text and content, and consumer and contributor data apps. Each company is placed in its primary category as listed by AI Circle. Part of AI Circle's Human Data Landscape series of market maps.
Direct data buyers
AfterQuery Aviro BenchFlow Centific Convergent Fleet Google Halluminate Handshake Labelbox Mercor micro1 Mode Nyne Ooak Data OpenAI data team Patronus AI Petrarch Polyshares Proximal Scale AI Snorkel AI Standard Data Surge AI Turing Zero Billion
Licensing brokers and marketplaces
Carbon Arc AI Training Data Broker AIData.Broker Appen Dandelion Health DataVendor Defined.ai eeko systems Endless Data FileYield Gradient Health Grepped Guilded AI Korra Monterra AI Opendatabay Protege Segmed SF Traces SuperAnnotate Troveo Truveta
Company Records: Traces, Code & Operations
CodeMerchant Magma Pangea.ai pre.dev SF Data
Wind-down and asset sales
Hilco Global SimpleClosure SourceX Sunset
Licensed Text & Content
Cashmere Copyright Clearance Center Created by Humans Credtent RSL Collective Stack Overflow Data Licensing TollBit Wiley
Consumer & Contributor Data
Babel Audio Kled Luel NATIX Network Neon Silencio Vana Wirestock
Dealroom.co