Updated November 2026
Collinear review: who it pays and what it leaves out
Its page mentions no retention period, deletion promise, exclusivity or seller fees.4
Key facts
Collinear in its own words and others'
| Fact | Value and source |
|---|---|
| Collinear: what it licenses | Private repos with pull requests, tickets, CI logs and coding-agent sessions; business app history from Slack, Gmail, Drive, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Linear, Jira and others; and database dumps |
| Collinear: best fit | English-language data, companies in the US, Canada, the UK and EU, Australia or New Zealand, and teams of about 50 people or more; smaller teams with deep, specialized records can work too |
| Collinear: timing | Indicates interest within a day; about a week from first call to signature; pays after confirming delivery, according to the agreement |
| Collinear: license | A license where ownership stays with you; a one-time export that works as a snapshot of a still-operating company, and any access granted can be removed once the transfer is done |
| Collinear founders | Nazneen Rajani (CEO) and Soumyadeep Bakshi; investors listed as Engineering Capital, 112 Capital, B Capital, Storm Ventures and Hitachi Ventures |
| Collinear: deal size | Publishes no dollar range |
Do we qualify?
Collinear's best fit: English data and teams of about 50
Collinear's best fit is English-language data from companies in the US, Canada, the UK and EU, Australia or New Zealand, with teams of about 50 people or more. Smaller teams with deep, specialized records can work too.6
The same page lists fifteen or more people at peak as something that raises the price, so ask which number applies to you. It also raises the price for several years of history, pull requests with their tickets, human-written code, and the same work visible across several tools.5
Collinear does not need AI-generated code, a public framework with a thin layer on top, loose documents, data mostly not in English, or code from very small teams with little history.7
What it buys
What Collinear licenses, and what it does with it
Collinear licenses private repositories with pull requests, tickets, CI logs and coding-agent sessions, business app history from Slack, Gmail, Drive, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Linear, Jira and others, and database dumps. Its priority sectors are healthcare operations, banking and lending, legal, construction, security operations, marketing operations, and engineering design and CAD.1,8
Collinear uses the data to build tasks and simulated environments that AI agents train and are evaluated in, expanded synthetically from what you send.9
How does a deal run?
Collinear's deal: a one-time export under a license
Collinear describes a license where ownership stays with you, and a one-time export after which any access you granted can be removed. It indicates interest within a day and says about a week runs from first call to signature, then pays after confirming delivery, according to the agreement. No number of days to payment is given.10,3
Collinear removes personal data after export, replaces names with consistent pseudonyms, and lets you hold back whatever you prefer not to send. It signs a mutual NDA before samples on request. The page does not say who performs the export.11,12
What is missing?
Collinear's page has no retention or deletion terms
The company
Who runs Collinear
Collinear AI, Inc. of Sunnyvale, California, is led by CEO Nazneen Rajani, with co-founder Soumyadeep Bakshi. MIT Technology Review named Rajani an Innovator Under 35 in 2024 and notes her time at Hugging Face. Collinear lists Engineering Capital, 112 Capital, B Capital, Storm Ventures and Hitachi Ventures as investors, and Caplight, an aggregator, shows about $10M in total with no announced round.14,15,16,17
Process
How it works with each buyer
In each buyer's own words. Where a buyer publishes nothing, we say so.
Collinear
- Private repos with pull requests, tickets, CI logs and coding-agent sessions; business app history from Slack, Gmail, Drive, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Linear, Jira and others; and database dumps1
- English-language data, companies in the US, Canada, the UK and EU, Australia or New Zealand, and teams of about 50 people or more; smaller teams with deep, specialized records can work too6
- Publishes no dollar range2
- Removes personal data after export, replaces names with consistent pseudonyms, and you can hold back whatever you prefer not to send11
- A license where ownership stays with you; a one-time export that works as a snapshot of a still-operating company, and any access granted can be removed once the transfer is done10
- Indicates interest within a day; about a week from first call to signature; pays after confirming delivery, according to the agreement3
Check first
How to check Collinear, or any buyer
The same checks for every company we profile. We state facts; you decide.
- 1.Find the company behind the ad: a legal name, a registered address and named people.
- 2.Ask for a written offer and a sample agreement before you send any data.
- 3.Ask who removes personal data, by what method, and approve it before anything is exported.
- 4.Ask which AI labs will receive the data, and whether you will be told.
- 5.Ask how they are paid: by you, by the buyer, or from a share of your deal.
- 6.Get terms from at least one other buyer before you answer.
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What people who worked with Collinear say
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FAQ
Questions, answered with sources
Collinear names teams of about 50 people or more as its best fit, and says smaller teams with deep, specialized records can work too.6
Collinear says about a week from first call to signature, and it indicates interest within a day. Payment follows confirmed delivery, with no number of days stated.3
Collinear says the deal is a one-time export, and any access you grant can be removed once the transfer is done.10
Collinear takes operating companies, and says the export is a snapshot, so nothing changes in how the business runs.10
Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.
Before you sign
Questions to talk through with your buyer
Every business is different, so these are best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over them with you before anything is signed.
Questions for this kind of business
- How long does Collinear keep our export, and how is deletion confirmed?
- Is the license exclusive, and does it cover the synthetic environments built from our data?
- How do CCPA, GDPR, UK GDPR and state privacy laws apply, and is de-identified data still personal information?
- Do customer, supplier or platform contracts, NDAs or API terms restrict this?
Questions for any buyer
- Is the license exclusive, and for how long?
- Can you sublicense the data, and to whom?
- Which AI labs will receive it, and will you tell us?
- How long do you keep it, and how is it deleted?
- What is your liability cap, and who indemnifies whom?
- Will the contract ban re-identification of people in the data?
- Who removes personal data, by what method, and do we approve it first?