Founded in 2024 and headquartered in New York, Protege aggregates private and proprietary data via licensing agreements and prepares it for AI developers through a single platform. The company’s network now includes hundreds of data-providing organizations and serves AI builders worldwide, including most of the “Magnificent Seven” tech firms. Protege offers curation, creation, and optimization services so customers receive AI-ready, rights-protected datasets across formats such as medical imaging, de-identified health records, audio, and motion capture files. Data partners are compensated via revenue-share payouts each time their assets are used. With $65 million raised to date, Protege plans to accelerate product development, broaden its data network into new domains, deepen institutional partnerships, and scale team and infrastructure. Although the company has not disclosed revenue or user counts, its rapid adoption across multiple verticals underscores rising demand for high-quality, non-public data. Management positions Protege as a critical intermediary between data owners and AI innovators, addressing what it calls the “biggest bottleneck” in AI progress: trustworthy data access.

Total raised

$65M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Jan 2026