BUYMYDEADSTARTUP

Your startup is dead.
Its data isnot

You spent years building your startup, but it didn’t work out. But not all is lost: list your dead startup and get its assets acquired by an AI lab for training.

List your company

Free listing

What companies have been paid
$10,000–$100,000

Typical range, across roughly 100+ reported deals within a single year.

$100,000+

Reported by one company for 13 years of code, tickets and email.

Sources

For founders

Winding down is administrative work nobody enjoys. If there is material worth licensing, a listing takes a few minutes and costs nothing.

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What you can list

Source code, internal documents, and operational records such as tickets, support logs and correspondence.

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Listing is free

No fee, no commission. Whatever a buyer pays, they pay you.

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You set the terms

Name a price or leave it blank and the listing reads Open to offers.

What this is worth

Labs have run out of public internet. What they want now is inside your archive.

$10k–$100k

Paid per company across roughly 100 reported deals in a year.

$100k+

One company, thirteen years of code, tickets and email.

Healthcare, finance

The sectors reported to command the highest prices.

Reported market figures, not an estimate of your assets.GizmodoSlashdotTechSpotall reporting Forbes, April 2026.

Example listing

This is the format a listing takes. Nothing more is published than what you see here.

Kestrel Freight Systems
Logistics software · Ireland · 2016 to 2024
Asking price
$45,000
Offers requested by 14 October 2026
Headcount at peak
31
Funding stage
Series A
What exists
Git repositories14 repos, approx. 61,000 commits
Jiraapprox. 22,000 tickets, linked to commits
Slack8 years, approx. 90 channels
Email28 company mailboxes
Driveapprox. 240 GB, mostly specifications
Notionapprox. 1,900 pages
Contactassets@kestrelfreight.example

Buyers contact the seller directly at the address on the listing. Where no asking price is given, the listing reads Open to offers. Where a date is given it is shown plainly, as above.

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How it works

01

You submit a listing describing what exists.

02

We check the company email address, review the listing by hand, and publish it.

03

A buyer contacts you directly at the address on the listing.

04

You negotiate on your own terms. We are not involved.

Price, terms, legal questions and privacy questions are handled between buyer and seller. We make no claim about the legality or compliance of any transaction and take no part in one.

List your company

Get your company listed for free. Interested buyers will reach out to you via email. Important: We will get in touch with you to confirm if the domain belongs to you, as a form of verification.

Required
What exists
OptionalBoth fields may be left blank.
Leaving the asking price blank is common. The listing will read Open to offers.

For buyers

Listings describe code, internal documents and operational records held by companies that have stopped trading. Each one names a contact address at the company, and every listing is manually checked before it is published.

Buyer access
$1,500per month

Every listing, flat rate, cancel any time.

Sign up for access

Leave your address and we will set up your account and send access details.

Questions

Do you take custody of the data?

No. There is no upload. A listing is a description of what exists, written by you. The material stays wherever it already is.

What does it cost?

Nothing for sellers. No listing fee and no cut of any sale. Buyers pay $1,500 a month for access to the listings, which is how the site is funded. We are not a broker and not an escrow, and no sale money passes through us.

Who is allowed to list?

Only a company may list itself. Submissions are verified against a company email address. Third parties cannot list a company they do not represent.

Who sets the price?

You do. The asking price is optional and is yours alone. We do not value, verify or endorse any listing, and the ranges shown under what this is worth are reported market figures rather than an estimate of your assets.

What happens after a buyer gets in touch?

That is between the two of you. Price, terms, legal questions and privacy questions are handled directly between buyer and seller. We are not party to it and make no claim about any transaction.

Will my name appear anywhere?

No. Listings carry the company and a company contact address. No founder or employee names are published.

Is anything checked before it goes up?

Yes. Every listing is read by a person before it is published, and the contact address is verified against the company. Review is not valuation: we still do not price, verify or endorse what is described.