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Protege: what it takes, how it earns, what to check

A data lab that runs a governed marketplace for licensed datasets, mostly healthcare, video and audio. Its homepage does not mention workplace chat or email.

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Type
AI lab or data lab. Licenses or partners for the data itself, under its own agreement.
Legal entity
Protege (169 Madison Ave, New York, per its site)
Data it wants

Licensed proprietary datasets for AI pre-training, post-training, fine-tuning and evaluation: healthcare, video, audio and speech, and spatial or physical-world data.

Who it takes

None stated. Companies hold their content or data rights outright or hold broad rights.

Not restricted on the page we read.

How it earns

Revenue share on qualified deals that include your data. The split is not published.

Process
  1. Assess the library and the rights.
  2. Sign a revenue-share agreement.
  3. Prepare the data, for example face-masking and quality checks.
  4. Content enters qualified deals and the company receives revenue-share payments. (Its data-provider pages, per our research notes.)
Payout claims
  • Two undated case studies on its video page report what a broadcaster and a sports distributor received. We leave the amounts out, because one company's result predicts nothing for yours.
  • Series A of $25M (August 2025) plus a $30M extension led by a16z (January 2026).reported

Public figure, see sourceSelf-reported by the company unless marked reported.

Security claims
  • Shows a SOC 2 badge in its homepage footer (self-reported, scope not shown).
  • Its video data-provider page lists automated detection and removal of personal identifiers, and GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA-aligned workflows where applicable.
De-identification and privacy

Its video data-provider page lists automated detection and removal of personal identifiers, sampling and quality assurance, and optional anonymization or voice modification, depending on the dataset and jurisdiction.

Terms for companies
  • Your warranties. Companies must hold the rights to license. The contract is not published.
  • Your indemnity and audit. Not published.
  • Liability cap. Not published.
  • Governing law. Not published.

Check before you share anything

These are facts from the company's own pages or from news and court reports, listed so you can ask about them. They are not verdicts. Companies change their terms, so confirm each one on the company's own page.

  • Revenue-share percentage not published.
  • Press and founder interviews give different partner counts and different totals raised.
  • Its scope is healthcare, media and video. We found no workplace-chat product.

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