Financial/Alternative Data
Reuters reported on August 20, 2026, that YipitData is exploring a sale valuing it at $2.5B-$3B, explicitly citing AI developer demand for proprietary datasets reuters.com.
YipitData
Credit and debit card transaction panels, email receipts, and web-scraped SKU-level consumer behavior data.
Media and Consumer Content
The Information reported a specific rumor in January 2026 predicting OpenAI could acquire Pinterest to gain a massive visual corpus and build ChatGPT into a shopping tool socialmediatoday.com.
Massive labeled visual taste-graph, shopping-intent data, and human-generated product search interactions.
AI Infrastructure and Datasets
Reuters and The Information reported on August 27, 2026, that Nvidia had agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, though not yet publicly confirmed by August 31.
Hugging Face
The dominant central repository for machine learning datasets, containing over 1.5 million datasets and 2 million models.
Media and Visual Content
Signed a multi-year AI search partnership with Perplexity (Oct 2025) and an integration with OpenAI (June 2026) engadget.com. Terminated its $3.7B merger with Shutterstock in July 2026, making it a standalone target.
Getty Images
Hundreds of millions of rights-cleared, high-quality licensed photographs, videos, and editorial images with rich metadata.
Media and Visual Content
Generated over $100M in AI data licensing in 2024 (deals with OpenAI, Meta). Newly 'in play' as a target following the termination of its $3.7B merger with Getty Images in mid-2026 engadget.com.
Shutterstock
Opt-in, contributor-compensated multimodal library of stock images, videos, music, and 3D assets.
Developer Q&A Data
Secured major AI data-licensing agreements with Google (Feb 2024) and OpenAI (May 2024). Parent company Prosus could sell at the right premium sherwood.news.
Stack Overflow
17 years of human-authored, peer-voted code questions and answers with step-by-step reasoning traces.
Healthcare Data
On January 7, 2026, OpenAI specifically selected b.well as the underlying records-connectivity infrastructure for ChatGPT Health.
b.well Connected Health
Consumer-mediated connectivity network reaching over 2.2 million providers, converting longitudinal records into AI-ready structured inputs.
Healthcare Imaging Data
Signed a multiyear Palantir agreement in Oct 2025, and on July 28, 2026, disclosed a >$11.5M contract to supply millions of images for an unnamed foundational AI model.
OneMedNet
Federated network of over 90 million patient journeys and 270 million clinical imaging studies spanning radiology, cardiology, and EHRs.
Geospatial and Satellite Imagery
Announced a GPU-native planetary intelligence engine with Nvidia in March 2026. Began using Anthropic's Claude to analyze imagery in March 2025.
Planet Labs
Petabyte-scale, high-frequency time-series archive of daily global Earth landmass satellite imagery.
Geospatial and Mapping
Signed a long-term agreement in 2024 to power Azure Maps/Bing. At CES 2026, TomTom integrated Azure OpenAI/Foundry models into its in-vehicle AI agent.
TomTom
Global maps, historical and real-time traffic coverage, and anonymized trip signals from connected vehicles.
Financial/Alternative Data
Integrated via MCP connectors with OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and Google daloopa.com. Anthropic made a strategic investment in July 2025 tied to Claude for Financial Services.
Daloopa
AI-extracted fundamental data, structured historical financials, and KPIs linked to original sources for over 5,500 public companies.
Scientific Publishing
Reported $49M in AI licensing revenue in FY2026, explicitly stating it currently serves four major LLM developers for model training publishersweekly.com.
Wiley
Peer-reviewed scientific, technical, and professional XML and metadata-rich research content.
Weather and Climate Data
Partnered directly with Nvidia in 2026 to feed RO data into Earth-2 Cloud APIs and launch AI weather models built on Nvidia Omniverse Blueprint.
Spire Global
Proprietary satellite Radio Occultation (RO) sensor data and data-assimilation analyses.
Consumer Preference Data
Licensed its reviews, ratings, and business attributes directly to OpenAI for ChatGPT search grounding in July 2026.
Yelp
Long-lived corpus of over 330 million local business reviews, human preferences, ratings, and photographs.
Conversational and Community Data
Signed a ~$60M/year AI licensing deal with Google (Feb 2024) and ~$70M deal with OpenAI. Actively suing non-paying scrapers like Perplexity and Anthropic in 2025/2026 pressgazette.co.uk.
Continuously updated long-form community discussions, moderation signals, and human-feedback ranking data.
Educational Data
Signed two AI data licensing agreements with LLM companies in May 2025, and launched a model-training business in May 2026. Low market cap (~$90M) makes it highly acquirable.
Chegg
Decade-long proprietary repository of educational question-and-answer pairs and human learning traces.
Web Behavioral Data
Signed a seven-digit LLM data-training contract in Q1 2026; expanded its data partnership with Manus AI in May 2026 for web traffic and keyword datasets debriefing.io.
Similarweb
Proprietary panels producing cross-site traffic, app usage, shopping, and GenAI referral data.
Agriculture and Robotics
Nvidia's NVentures made a strategic equity investment (announced May 2024), establishing a strong data and AI relationship.
Carbon Robotics
Large Plant Model trained on over 150 million labeled plants from physical field outcomes and laser interactions.
Geospatial Location Data
Publicly describes itself on LinkedIn as a partner to OpenAI and ChatGPT search for grounding local LLM answers.
Foursquare
Places product with >120 million POIs, proprietary movement/foot-traffic signals, and historical check-ins.
Genomics Data
Launched the Trillion Gene Atlas in March 2026 in partnership with Anthropic and Nvidia, bringing EDEN design models to Claude Science.
Basecamp Research
BaseData corpus containing over 10 billion novel genes from over 1 million newly sampled non-human species.
Media and Visual Content
Reuters reported ongoing negotiations with multiple generative-AI companies to license photos and videos for training at 5 cents to $1 per asset.
Photobucket
Approximately 13 billion consumer-uploaded photos and videos acting as a 'real-world' image corpus.
Healthcare and Genomics
Announced major clinical data processing milestones at Nvidia GTC in March 2025; collaborates with Microsoft on Azure-hosted analytics.
SOPHiA GENETICS
Global clinical-genomics network with over 2 million analyzed patient profiles and genotype-phenotype workflows.
Healthcare Commercial Data
Disclosed in August 2026 that it is formally evaluating strategic and financial alternatives. Holds significant cash against a low ~$90M market cap, signaling a live sale potential.
Definitive Healthcare
Nearly 28 billion prescription claims and 12.5 billion commercial medical claims linked to 310,000 healthcare organizations.
Geospatial and Robotics
Accepted a strategic Snap investment in 2025 for AI mapping, and became Coco Robotics' core spatial-AI infrastructure partner in March 2026.
Niantic Spatial
Crowdsourced 3D visual map with spatial data for roughly 10 million locations and Visual Positioning System scans.
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