Grata vs SourceScrub
Which private-company data platform for proprietary sourcing?
Grata
Searchable database of 20M+ private companies with revenue/employee estimates, website-keyword search, and 10M+ verified executive contacts, used to build off-market target lists and run outreach with CRM integrations. Owned by Datasite since June 2025, which is merging competitor Sourcescrub's data into the platform.
Custom pricing · Pricing not published. grata.com/pricing shows three demo-gated tiers with no dollar figures: Growth (aimed at family offices and independent sponsors), Scale (buy/sell-side advisors, mid-market PE, corp dev), and Alpha (investment banks and mega funds), plus API and data-warehouse add-ons; all sales-quoted subscription contracts via "Book a demo" / "Talk to a specialist" — contract term length is not stated on the site. The only numbers on Grata's own site are on its referral page, whose worked examples use $20,000 and $30,000 contract values — a signal of typical deal size. No free trial or self-serve option.
- Website-keyword and similar-company search finds niche off-market businesses (e.g., 'ISO 9001 precision machining') that NAICS-code tools miss — the core reason searchers pay for it
- Contacts and list-building live in one tool: 10M+ verified executive emails, Chrome extension, and HubSpot/Salesforce/DealCloud integrations feed outreach directly
- Strong review record: G2 4.8/5 across ~79 reviews, with search functionality and customer support the most-praised aspects
- Quote-only annual contracts with zero published pricing; the vendor's own referral examples imply $20k–$30k deals — often a third or more of a self-funded searcher's entire search budget
- Data accuracy is the top user complaint (18 mentions on G2; echoed on Searchfunder): revenue estimates and contact info need verification, so you still end up cross-checking in a spreadsheet
- Coverage skews to US mid-market and digitally visible companies — the low-web-presence $500k–$5M Main Street businesses SBA buyers target are exactly where estimates and contacts are thinnest
Verified Jul 10, 2026 · Full review →
SourceScrub
A private-company database and deal-sourcing platform that indexes 17M+ companies from 290,000+ sources (conference rosters, industry lists, awards, associations) with contact data, list building, custom scoring, and CRM sync. Built for PE firms, investment banks, and corporate-development teams to find and track off-market targets.
Custom pricing · Pricing not published. The vendor's own pricing page (sourcescrub.com/sourcescrub-pricing) lists three quote-only tiers — Essentials (1 score/5 rules), Plus (1 score/15 rules, 250 tracked companies), Professional (1 score/unlimited rules, 1,000 tracked companies) — each behind a "Request pricing" form, plus quote-based CRM integrations and a Data Connect API. No dollar amounts, billing period, seat counts, or free trial are disclosed anywhere on the vendor site.
- Sources-first model traces every company back to the conference list, award, or association where it appeared — strong for surfacing bootstrapped, founder-owned tech companies invisible in registry-based databases
- Searchfunder users report notably low email bounce rates for software/tech contacts, since that population lives on LinkedIn and conference rosters
- Native CRM integrations (Salesforce, DealCloud, HubSpot) are the single most-praised feature across G2 reviews
- Coverage gap sits exactly where self-funded searchers hunt: sub-$2M EBITDA companies that don't attend trade shows or appear on industry lists are often simply not in the dataset (Searchfunder, G2)
- Quote-only enterprise pricing with no free tier or trial — the product is scoped and priced for PE firms and investment banks, not individual buyers
- Data accuracy is the top recurring complaint: roughly a quarter of G2 reviewers cite stale or inaccurate company and contact data, with quality varying sharply by industry
Verified Jul 10, 2026 · Full review →
Our take
Choose Grata for AI-driven discovery across private companies if you can stomach demo-gated pricing — and negotiate.
Choose SourceScrub when list quality from curated sources matters most — with the same enterprise-pricing caveat.