The data is the same in every case: years of real work, sitting in your systems, already paid for. What changes is why the money matters to you right now.
A data license pays cash for something you already own. No equity changes hands. No new board seat. No debt on the books. For some companies that is extra runway between rounds. For others it is a reason not to raise at all.
Your data is often the last asset anyone thinks to look at. If you are restructuring, selling, or closing, it can be licensed or sold the same way equipment and inventory can. One airline's internal data drew bids from $7.5 million to $12.5 million during its wind-down. Smaller closed companies have typically seen $10,000 to $100,000.
You have spent fifteen or thirty years building a way of doing things. All of it is on record in your systems, and right now buyers want it. This is found money for a business that does not need rescuing: new equipment, a bonus pool, paying down a note, or just a good year.
Merging or being acquired? Sorting out what your data is worth, and who has rights to it, before the deal closes is worth a conversation too.
Buyers publicly list these as industries they want. If yours is not here, that is not a no. It means we check.
Work orders, quality records, maintenance logs, production schedules.
Dispatch, shipping manifests, inventory logs, carrier and customer back-and-forth.
Reconciliations, approvals, reporting, claims handling. Account and card numbers stay out.
Client work, project histories, proposals, the way your team solves problems.
Scheduling, billing workflow, administration. Patient records stay out.
Firm operations and process. Attorney-client material stays out.
Support tickets, merchandising decisions, order and returns handling.
Listings, transaction coordination, property operations.
Engineering workflows, bug tracking, product planning, customer support.
Companies with fewer than 20 employees or less than three years of history usually do not get offers today. Neither do companies whose work never made it into a system. We would rather tell you that now than waste your time.