MicroOne is recruiting experts across fields to generate AI training data and is expanding by purchasing actual corporate data, with over 200 companies signing up to sell data daily in recent weeks.

The company has seen rapid revenue and investment growth, growing from roughly $7 million in annual sales to $500 million by August, and attracting over $100 million in funding with a claimed corporate value near $4 billion, while projecting net profits above $100 million in the coming year.

Ansari argues that Korea faces a data gap and notes US data investments run well into tens of billions annually, urging Korea to increase data investment dramatically—by 100 to 1,000 times—to build AI tailored to Korean society and industry.

MicroOne has pursued high-profile data acquisitions, including a bid to buy Spirit Airlines’ data and a reverse bid when Google’s assets were auctioned, with final targets decided by bankruptcy courts.

MicroOne’s data offerings span digital records (emails, Teams, work logs) and physical-world data from manufacturing and robotics, highlighted by a $100 million annual robot data sale within nine months.

Ali Ansari, MicroOne’s CEO, says the company spends millions daily to acquire corporate data for AI training, with expectations to reach tens of millions daily.

The market for corporate data is expanding as AI agents require realistic, company-like environments, and data that mirrors real operations boosts AI performance.