Polyshares alternatives: who else licenses company records

Companies with a lower stated bar than the 50+ Polyshares asks brokers for include Scale AI, micro1, Ventra, Nyne and Pewter. Scale AI prefers 40+ and assesses each case, while micro1 and Ventra want 30+, and Ventra says it cannot take legal, healthcare, financial services or accounting companies right now. Nyne and Pewter go down to 20, with Pewter counting full-time staff now or at your peak, and both want 3+ years.^{15,16,17,18,19,20}

Under 20, look at Mode if you are a legal firm from 6 people or an accounting, finance or medical firm from 10, and at Grepped, which states no headcount minimum. SuperAnnotate says any size, and Appen and Centific state no floor, which is not the same as a yes.^{21,22,23,24,25}

Polyshares says its licenses are exclusive by default unless agreed otherwise, and it describes all four deals on its track record page as perpetual and exclusive. micro1's published license is nonexclusive, though also perpetual and irrevocable. Endless says its license is non-exclusive, so you can license the same data to anyone else, and it wants roughly 30+ employees.^{9,26,27,28,29}

License My Data offers either a non-exclusive license or a one-time exclusive buyout, and says that for a closed company the first is usually the better deal. Troveo says the same dataset can be licensed to more than one buyer, and that exclusivity is time-limited, has to be earned and comes with exit terms. Mode and Pewter both settle exclusivity in the written deal, so raise it early.^{30,31,32,33,34,35}

If your records are mostly code, pre.dev licenses private repos and calls that non-exclusive by default, paid Net 15 after funds land. A worked example on its site shows $100 per million tokens of source code and $40 per million tokens of git history, and it takes code only, so it will not cover your email or CRM.³⁶

Polyshares now has a privacy page and a team page naming two managing partners, but we found no terms of service on its site. micro1 publishes its license terms, including that it may not name you without written consent. Grepped AI, Inc. publishes its Delaware entity and San Francisco address along with terms updated in October 2026. Nyne.ai Corp. says it is registered as a data broker in California, Texas and Vermont.^10,27,37,38

Mercor says a wire typically comes 2-4 weeks after the signed agreement, once the buyer has the cleaned data, and Labelbox Prism advertises under 21 days from first call to first wire. Ventra says an offer in 3 to 7 days, faster than Polyshares' one to two weeks, and payment usually net 30 or net 60 after signing, where Polyshares' 30 to 60 days starts once the data is delivered. An offer date and a payment date are different milestones, so ask for both.^{39,40,41,42,43,13}

Polyshares' rules for brokers ask for email, file storage, internal chat, CRM and accounting, though it will take a software company's codebase on its own. The General Data Company takes industrial records such as complaints, credit notes and order exports, in digital form only. Collinear takes private repos, business app history or database dumps, and Ooak Data lists a wide spread from tickets to spreadsheets to contracts.^{8,44,45,46,47,48}

In our view Polyshares may still suit you if you meet its bar and are comfortable with exclusivity, particularly if you are winding down, since it says it has a large appetite for closing companies. The quiz checks your size and systems and points you to the buyers we work with that fit, and the seller ranking and our reviews cover everyone named here, partner or not. Polyshares, micro1, Ventra, Pewter, Mode and Grepped pay us a referral fee. Our scores and reviews don't change for it.⁴⁹