{"id":105007,"title":"Petrarch — Unlocking enterprise data for tomorrow's economy","tagline":"The market for specialized data locked up in enterprise companies.","body":"# The market for specialized data locked up in enterprise companies.\n\n[Petrarch](http://petrarch.co) is unlocking enterprise data for tomorrow's economy.\n\n\u003chttps://youtu.be/YRflyEOuVYo\u003e\n\nFrontier labs scraped the internet dry. Then, labelers contracted subject matter experts to hand-make data. Now demand has shifted towards the bespoke data locked up within industries like construction, manufacturing, and logistics.\n\nPetrarch targets companies with valuable **operational** **data** they haven't monetized, from **legacy** **businesses** and **startups** to companies undergoing **bankruptcy** and **pivots**.\n\nPetrarch **sources** suppliers, **cleans** and **restructures** the datasets, certifies **legal clearance**, and resells to **applied AI startups and labs.** They have already transacted construction plans, autonomous driving recordings, and codebases.\n\nWith experience at Scale and Meridian AI, founders Ian Lee, Samuel Hahn, and Sudhish Swain dropped out of Harvard to unlock the next wave of training data.\n\nIf you need proprietary datasets or think you have something valuable on your hands \\\n(or recently pivoted), reach out at [founders@petrarch.co](mailto:founders@petrarch.co) or visit us at [Petrarch.co](http://Petrarch.co)!","slug":"RJf-petrarch-unlocking-enterprise-data-for-tomorrow-s-economy","created_at":"2026-07-13T16:11:02.837Z","updated_at":"2026-07-22T14:46:57.636Z","total_vote_count":11,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RJf-petrarch-unlocking-enterprise-data-for-tomorrow-s-economy","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":33310,"name":"Petrarch","slug":"petrarch","url":"https://petrarch.co/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/091a0f9893d5a0f66b65399660fc8041716acd4e.png","batch":"Summer 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":["Marketplace","B2B","Data Engineering"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/33310"}}