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AI labs buy data from failed startups as resale market grows. SimpleClosure brokers sales of defunct startups' code, emails, chats, and documents to AI training labs. SimpleClosure's Asset Hub has handled over 150 deals selling startup code and workspace data to AI labs.
AI labs buy data from failed startups as resale market grows - GenAInews
SimpleClosure brokers sales of defunct startups' code, emails, chats, and documents to AI training labs.
genainews.tech
October 13, 2026 at 9:39 AM
AI feeds on dead startups' digital remains 🤖

AI labs are buying data from defunct startups via new "tech undertaker" services like SimpleClosure to source real-world training datasets.

Even failure can be monetized in the age of AI.
October 13, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Turns out AI labs are scooping up data from defunct startups—47% of SimpleClosure deals even bundle code or synthetic datasets. What does this mean for training models? Dive into the details. #AItrainingData #SimpleClosure #SyntheticDatasets

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October 13, 2026 at 10:14 AM
AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models. Keelan Miskell netted roughly $25,000 for his code base and a still-pending amount for workspace data. The sale was brokered by SimpleClosure, which helps founders sell code and workspace data.

Source: MIT Technology Review
AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
Most startups fail. A new industry is giving their data an afterlife in AI.
www.technologyreview.com
October 13, 2026 at 10:38 AM
AI Labs Turn Dead Startups’ Data Into Training Fuel

Keelan Miskell received roughly $25,000 for his failed crypto startup’s codebase, with about $15,000 pending for workspace data. Sunset values defunct companies’ assets using head count, operating years, data volume, and tool usage.
AI Labs Turn Dead Startups’ Data Into Training Fuel
SimpleClosure is turning startup wind-downs into a new data supply chain, but the commercial upside runs ahead of the evidence: no company has shown that real archives improve model performance over synthetic data. For workers, the Google-Spirit Airlines deal shows how valuable workplace records can become without clear consent or federal limits on resale.
theaibrief.pro
October 13, 2026 at 11:12 AM
"SimpleClosure said its AI buyers grew ninefold compared w 2025. >350 companies listed assets since April on AssetHub, its marketplace for selling or licensing code & workplace data to AI labs. The marketplace accepts operating companies & those winding down." finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...
Google wants Spirit Airlines’ data. Micro1 wants to pay more
The AI data startup has offered $12.5 million for Spirit Airlines’ corporate records, challenging Google as buyers seek fresh training material in failed companies’ emails and code.
finance.yahoo.com
September 15, 2026 at 1:41 PM
📢 Simpleclosure is #hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Asset Hub!

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September 1, 2026 at 5:11 PM
📢 Simpleclosure is #hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Asset Hub!

🌎 New York City, New York
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August 31, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Simpleclosure is looking for a Product Manager, Product Partnerships - Asset Hub in New York City, United States
https://weloveproduct.co/jobs/product-manager-product-partnerships-asset-hub-simpleclosure-bddh3k

#productmanager #productjobs #jobs #jobsoffer #weloveproduct
Simpleclosure is looking for a Product Manager, Product Partnerships - Asset Hub in New York City, United States
Salary range: $130,000 - $170,000
weloveproduct.co
August 17, 2026 at 8:38 AM
"SimpleClosure removes all personally-identifiable information from the internal company data, a sensitive and technically difficult process that they want to make sure is “rock solid” before rolling it out more widely."
www.forbes.com/sites/annato...

I doubt very much that that will be enough.
April 17, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Des startups mortes revendent leurs Slack, emails et tickets Jira pour entraîner des IA
Des startups mortes revendent leurs Slack, emails et tickets Jira pour entraîner des IA
Quand une startup ferme, ses conversations Slack, ses emails, ses tickets Jira et ses téraoctets de Google Drive ne disparaissent pas. Et maintenant, certaines les revendent. SimpleClosure, une boîte spécialisée dans la fermeture d'entreprises, propose aux fondateurs de monétiser ce qu'elle appelle l'"exhausteur opérationnel" de leur défunte société en le vendant comme données d'entraînement pour des modèles d'IA. C'est ce qu'a fait Shanna Johnson, l'ancienne patronne de cielo24, une entreprise de sous-titrage et transcription qui a fermé après 13 ans d'activité. Conversations internes, échanges clients, documentation technique, tout est parti dans le lot. SimpleClosure supprime les données personnelles identifiables avant la vente, mais le contenu des échanges reste intact. En un an, la boîte a bouclé une centaine de transactions de ce type et récupéré plus d'un million de dollars pour les fondateurs concernés, avec des prix entre 10 000 et 100 000 dollars par entreprise. SimpleClosure lance d'ailleurs Asset Hub, une plateforme dédiée où les sociétés en fermeture peuvent mettre en vente leurs dépôts de code, leurs archives Slack, leurs emails et leurs documents internes. Le marché se structure. Le problème évident, c'est que les gens qui ont écrit ces messages ne savaient pas qu'ils finiraient dans un jeu de données d'entraînement. Marc Rotenberg, fondateur du Center for AI and Digital Policy, résume assez bien : "Les problèmes de vie privée ici sont quand même conséquents." Un employé qui discute de son salaire, de ses problèmes personnels ou d'un conflit avec un collègue sur Slack n'a jamais donné son accord pour que ça serve à calibrer un modèle de langage. Côté juridique, c'est complètement le flou. Les données appartiennent à l'entreprise, pas aux employés, et quand l'entreprise est en liquidation, le liquidateur ou le fondateur dispose de fait des actifs. Du coup, dans les faits rien n'interdit aujourd'hui la revente de conversations internes anonymisées aux États-Unis, même si le RGPD en Europe pose des limites que les boîtes américaines n'ont pas. Bref, si votre ancienne startup a coulé, vos messages Slack sont peut-être déjà dans un dataset quelque part. Source : TechSpot
korben.info
April 20, 2026 at 12:53 PM
“We don’t get excited by shutting down companies,” Yona said, careful to combat the notion that he relishes their failure. “What drives us is giving founders and operators and investors the peace of mind to move on.”

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Startup SimpleClosure Sees Boom In Giving Fellow Startups ‘Peace of Mind’ to Die
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Kate Clark reports on a startup that helps s...
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May 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
📰 A Better Way To Fail: How This Platform Aims To Turn Startup Shutdowns Into Something Salvageable

Los Angeles-based SimpleClosure has launched Asset Hub, a marketplace aimed at helping founders sell assets such as source code, data and equipment during the wind-down process. Crunchbase News s...
A Better Way To Fail: How This Platform Aims To Turn Startup Shutdowns Into Something Salvageable
Los Angeles-based SimpleClosure has launched Asset Hub, a marketplace aimed at helping founders sell assets such as source code, data and equipment during the wind-down process. Crunchbase News s...
news.crunchbase.com
April 22, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies
Some failed startups are reportedly selling old Slack messages, emails, and other internal records to AI companies as training data, creating a new way to cash out after shutting down. Fast Company reports: Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and Jira ticket as training data for "hundreds of thousands of dollars." This isn't a one-off scenario. SimpleClosure, a startup that helps companies like Cielo24 shut down, told Forbes that there's been major interest from AI companies trying to get their hands on workplace data. Because of this, SimpleClosure launched a new tool that allows companies to sell their wealth of internal communications -- from Slack archives to email chains -- to AI labs. The company said it's processed 100 such deals in the past year. Payouts ranged from $10,000 to $100,000. "I think the privacy issues here are quite substantial," Marc Rotenberg, founder of the Center for AI and Digital Policy, told Forbes. "Employee privacy remains a key concern, particularly because people have become so dependent on these new internal messaging tools like Slack. ... It's not generic data. It's identifiable people." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
yro.slashdot.org
April 18, 2026 at 11:03 AM
それでマスキング処理するサービスが人気と、なるほど... / "需要の高まりを受けてSimpleClosureは、事業をたたむ企業が保有するコードやSlackのアーカイブ、メールなどを売却できる場として、「Asset Hub」の立ち上げを進めている。ヨナによれば、Asset Hubはまだ一部がベータ版の段階にある。社内データから個人を特定できる情報を削除する工程は、機密性が高く、技術的にも難しいためだ。同社は、より広く展開する前に、この仕組みを「万全な状態」にしておきたい考えだという。"
April 29, 2026 at 8:57 AM
SimpleClosure monétise les données de startups fermées (conversations Slack, emails, tickets Jira, code) en les revendant comme données d'entraînement pour l'IA, après suppression des données personnelles identifiables.
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Des startups mortes revendent leurs Slack, emails et tickets Jira pour entraîner des IA - Korben
Quand une startup ferme, ses conversations Slack, ses emails, ses tickets Jira et ses téraoctets de Google Drive ne disparaissent pas. Et maintenant, ...
korben.info
April 21, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Stati Uniti: Carta abbandona la chiusura della startup, supporta la serie A da $15 milioni di Simpleclosure.

***Carta cambia strategia finanziaria, puntando su un'altra startup.

techcrunch: Fact Check by gemini-2.0-flash-lite
May 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Votre startup a fermé ? Vos emails et Slack financent maintenant l'IA.

SimpleClosure a vendu les archives de 100 entreprises défuntes l'an dernier. Anthropic prévoit 1 milliard $ pour ces 'gymnases d'apprentissage'. Les employés n'ont aucun recours une fois la boîte fermée.
Vos anciens employeurs vendent vos emails pour dresser l'IA
Les startups défuntes monétisent leurs archives Slack et emails d'employés pour entraîner l'IA. Un marché de 1 milliard $ émerge autour de ces 'gymnases d'apprentissage' numériques.
da.van.ac
May 6, 2026 at 8:00 AM
This is a bit meta but there’s now a start-up that helps to close down failing start-ups

www.fastcompany.com/91270762/sim...
When startups fail, this company helps them go out of business
The failure rate for new businesses is high. SimpleClosure has a platform that streamlines the task of shutting down a startup.
www.fastcompany.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies
Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies - TechWorldX
This isn't a one-off scenario. SimpleClosure, a startup that helps companies like Cielo24 shut down, told Forbes that there's been major interest from AI
techworldx.rozeepk.com
April 18, 2026 at 11:24 AM
2025 will likely be another brutal year of failed startups, data suggests Mary Ann Azevedo

​More startups shut down in 2024 than the year prior and a high volume of startup failures will continue, data from multiple sources. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.    More…
2025 will likely be another brutal year of failed startups, data suggests Mary Ann Azevedo
​More startups shut down in 2024 than the year prior and a high volume of startup failures will continue, data from multiple sources. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.    More startups shut down in 2024 than the year prior and a high volume of startup failures will continue, data from multiple sources. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.   Startups, Angellist, Exclusive, failures, Carta, SimpleClosure TAGS: #fyp #foryou #crypto #cryptonews #Trump #ElonMusk #bitcoin #Tech #TechNews TechCrunch Read More
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January 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM