Treat a closing startup's data sale as a contribution to the wind-down, not a rescue: the wind-down firm's own figures put the average data deal below the cost of the cheapest way to close
SimpleClosure puts a managed wind-down at $25K to $75K on average, an assignment for the benefit of creditors at $75K to $150K and bankruptcy at $100K to $500K+. Its own first year of data sales returned about $1 million across nearly 100 deals, an average of about $10,000 a deal. A typical sale of a small closed startup's records therefore pays part of even the cheapest route; the realised sales above $100,000 (cielo24 at mid-six figures) are companies with many years of records.
Dated 3 Sep 2026Source checked 29 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 30 Oct 2026Basis: indicative
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“Managed wind-down is the fastest (2–8 weeks) and least expensive ($25K–$75K) when your company can cover its obligations.”
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- Code bases and workspace data of shut-down startups sold through SimpleClosure's test marketplace, the average deal over its first year
- SimpleClosure expects to return more than $10 million to startups listing data on AssetHub by the end of 2026, after about $1 million across nearly 100 deals in its test year.
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