Headline ceilings are not what deals pay
SimpleClosure's test marketplace recovered about $1M across nearly 100 deals (about $10K each) against a quoted $10K to $100K; Ooak headlines 'up to $300K' while its smallest closed deal was $20K; Turing paid an average in the tens of thousands per failed-startup codebase against an 'up to $1M' headline.
Dated 11 Oct 2026Source checked 11 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: strong
“Yona told Forbes that the test version of his market had recovered $1 million for founders over the previous year, across nearly 100 deals.”
Upstarts Media: SimpleClosure data on what AI labs buy, checked 3 Sep 2026
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Ooak Data: partner page, checked 11 Oct 2026
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Fortune: micro1 tries to beat Google's bid for Spirit Airlines data, checked 14 Sep 2026
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- Code bases and workspace data of shut-down startups sold through SimpleClosure's test marketplace, the average deal over its first year
- SimpleClosure expects to return more than $10 million to startups listing data on AssetHub by the end of 2026, after about $1 million across nearly 100 deals in its test year.
- Count net, proprietary volume before pricing
- Lead with what is rare, not with how much there is
- A company's operational and business data licensed to Ooak Data (headline)
- Company data licensed through Ooak
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