Next Wave Advisory

Monetize your old datasets. The time is now.

Companies and projects fail or get outdated. The work that went into them is still worth a lot of money.

We help you recover costs by selling your datasets and IP to AI foundational models. We anonymize the data and handle legal. First call to payout in four weeks or less.

What we collect

Startup data and legacy codebases.

01 / Category

Up to €30K

Startup data.

From companies that operated for two or more years and have wound down or are winding down. The messy reality of how a real business ran is what public training data cannot replace: emails, decisions, transactions, design files, and the back-office systems that ran it.

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Headcount

10+ at peak. More data, more value.

History

Operated for two or more years. Enough timeline to be interesting.

Type

Real software, tech, or digitally-operated business. Not pure services.

Authority

Founder, investor, or estate signatory authorized to transfer.

Obligations

No ongoing customer obligations blocking disclosure.

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Communication

Email, chat, Slack, Teams, Discord, voicemail.

Project tracking

Jira, Linear, Asana, Monday, ClickUp, Trello.

Documents

Drive, SharePoint, Dropbox, Notion, Confluence.

CRM and sales

Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, deal notes, lost-deal reasons.

Customer support

Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, ticket transcripts.

Meeting data

Zoom, Gong, Granola, Otter recordings and transcripts.

Financial

QuickBooks, NetSuite, Xero, ERP exports, P&Ls, AR and AP.

HR and recruiting

Greenhouse, Lever, performance reviews, calibration notes, comp data.

Design and product

Figma files, PRDs, design reviews, spec docs.

Analytics

Looker, Tableau, Mixpanel, Amplitude exports.

Internal wiki

Runbooks, onboarding docs, internal training material.

Strategy and board

Board decks, OKRs, strategy memos, all-hands recordings.

Legal and contracts

Contract templates, redlines, vendor agreements.

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Up to €300K

Legacy codebases.

The codebase no one wants to maintain is the one buyers will pay most for. Frontier teams need agents fluent in the stacks that still run banks and infrastructure. Public training corpora missed almost all of it. Production code, repository history, comments, and issue trackers all add value.

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Authenticity

Real production code, not toy projects or tutorials.

Size

50K lines or more. Diminishing returns past 1M.

Docs

Comments, internal documentation, README files where they exist.

Repo history

Version control where available, including git, SVN, CVS, or Perforce dumps.

Issue tracker

Jira, Bugzilla, or Mantis dumps are a strong multiplier.

Build

Test suites, build scripts, deployment configs.

IP chain

Clear ownership. Sole owner, ex-employer with rights, estate, or university policy.

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COBOL

Banking and insurance core systems.

FORTRAN

Scientific computing, oil and gas, defense, weather modeling.

RPG / IBM i

Mid-market ERPs, manufacturing, distribution.

Ada

Defense, aerospace, rail signaling.

Pascal / Delphi

Industrial software, point of sale, Central European enterprise.

PL/I

IBM mainframe, financial services.

PowerBuilder

Client-server enterprise apps from the 90s and 2000s.

Visual Basic / VBA

Internal tools, Access apps, Excel macros at scale.

ColdFusion

Older enterprise web applications.

Perl

Sysadmin, bioinformatics, legacy web.

Smalltalk

Banking and trading systems.

ABAP

SAP customizations.

Legacy Java EE

Pre-Spring-Boot enterprise Java, J2EE, older application servers.


Why now

Public training data is exhausted. Proprietary data is not.

Frontier buyers have ingested most of the public web. The next generation of agents needs workflows and code that were never published.

Central Europe sits on three decades of work no one in San Francisco knows how to reach. Banks, telcos, manufacturers, and the long tail of startups that did not make it.

The window is short. Buyers are bidding now. Legal, anonymization, and placement take weeks. Most archives in basements will still be there in two years; most buyers will not.

Process

First call to payout in four weeks or less.

Week 1

Initial call. NDA signed. Data assessment.

Week 2

Price offering. Legal contracting.

Week 3

Anonymization. Transfer to chain of custody.

Week 4

Data pack transferred. Money wired.


Why us

We bridge the CEE startup ecosystem with foundational models.

01

CEE ecosystem builders

We have been in the Central European tech and startup ecosystem for more than fifteen years. Matej Ftáčnik, one of our founding partners, co-founded The Spot, the first founder community of its kind in Slovakia, and built Vacuumlabs into one of the leading software engineering practices in the region. The lawyers, founders, and engineers we call are people we have known for a decade or longer.

02

US foundational model relationships

Our partnership with an American-based intelligence company gives us a direct line to Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple. Our deep relationship with them lets us move fast and operate on mutual trust.

03

Fair game

We are founders too. We know how much goes into building companies and how little comes back when it doesn't work out. More money back to CEE founders means more resources in the ecosystem. That is the bigger picture we are working toward.

04

Operational discipline

We move fast. The first conversation is thirty minutes under NDA. A letter of intent lands inside the first week. The wire clears by week four. We do not run open-ended diligence, we do not put names on lists, and we do not stretch a process that should take days into weeks of theater. The work is yours, the wire is yours, and the timeline is short.

What we handle

We make sure everything is ready for a fair, clean & correct sale.

Anonymization

PII, customer data, and trade secrets are removed by a vetted partner before the data leaves the chain of custody. You never ship raw archives to the end buyer.

IP and chain of title

We draft reps and warranties. Sole owner, ex-employer with rights, estate signatory, university policy. We work through the chain so the seller does not.

Compliance

GDPR and sectoral rules are our responsibility. The regulatory burden does not transfer to the seller.


Let's monetize your old datasets. The time is now.

Tell us what you have in terms of data, or recommend someone who might benefit from this. We make sure to respond ASAP.

Expect a reply within 2 working days.

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