For industry data founders
Sell your industry data business.
Tiny buys profitable industry data businesses with trusted datasets, repeat subscribers, and workflows customers would miss immediately.
The category matters less than the business itself: real profit, customer trust, and a reason to keep it independent for the long term.
Short answer
Does Tiny buy industry data businesses?
Yes. Tiny likes profitable industry data businesses when customers rely on the data to price, benchmark, prospect, underwrite, recruit, or make operating decisions.
- Good fit: proprietary datasets, benchmarks, indexes, directories, pricing data, research products, and workflow data feeds.
- Durability usually comes from trust, coverage, freshness, provenance, and being hard to replace inside a customer workflow.
- Tiny is especially interested when renewal behavior is strong and the data brand has a real reputation in its market.
Why this kind of business can last
Data businesses can be wonderful when customers renew because the data saves time or changes a decision.
We like proprietary collection loops, contributor networks, hard-to-clean datasets, and historical depth.
A narrow dataset used every week by a small market can be more valuable than a broad database nobody fully trusts.
Strong fit and weaker fit signals
Strong fit
- Subscription or license revenue with low churn and clear usage by analysts, operators, sales teams, investors, or compliance teams.
- Strong source quality, documented methodology, and a brand customers cite or forward internally.
- Data that plugs into spreadsheets, dashboards, CRMs, procurement processes, underwriting, or market research.
Weaker fit
- Scraped commodity data with no trust advantage and no clear right to use.
- A newsletter or research product with no repeat revenue or renewal history.
- A database that is valuable only because the founder personally knows every buyer.
What happens after a sale to Tiny
We keep the data product and customer trust intact. Methodology, source relationships, and editorial judgment matter.
We can support more engineering, sales operations, or product packaging without forcing the business into a different category.
Tiny is not a broker, marketplace, private equity fund, or short-term flipper. We buy businesses we would be proud to own for the long term, and we try not to break the thing customers already trust.
Where to go next
Questions founders ask
Will Tiny buy a research-led data business?
Potentially. We like research-led data when customers renew for the underlying information, not just for one analyst's personality.
Do data rights matter in diligence?
Yes. We will look closely at source permissions, licenses, customer contracts, privacy issues, and how the dataset is maintained.
Talk to Tiny
If this sounds like your business, email hello@tiny.com with a short description, approximate revenue, and approximate profit. No pitch deck required.