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SourceScrub

Off-market data & outreach

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.

Pricing
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.
Best for
Funded search funds or well-capitalized searchers with a software/tech or conference-heavy niche thesis who can negotiate a seat (historically via search-fund group discounts) — not self-funded searchers buying sub-$2M EBITDA Main Street businesses, whose target universe is largely absent from the dataset and whose budget won't cover enterprise quotes.
Last verified
Jul 10, 2026 — pricing and status checked against primary sources
Roadmap stages
5. Source deals

Pros

  • 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
  • Has historically offered group discounts to search fund cohorts, softening its PE-grade pricing for searchers who organize

Cons

  • 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
  • Acquired by Datasite (Aug 2025) and being folded into Grata — the blog already redirects to grata.com, so buying standalone today means an eventual forced migration onto a different platform
  • Tracked-company caps on lower tiers (250 on Plus, 1,000 on Professional) constrain a broad, multi-industry search

What searchers say

Recent direct user sentiment is thin. The most substantive Searchfunder thread is old (~2020): praise for software/tech sourcing and low email bounce rates, but "traditional search fund targets often absent" and pricing prohibitive for individual searchers, with group discounts mentioned. A Searchfunder "SourceScrub vs Grata" thread from Aug 2025 drew no substantive replies. G2 aggregate (~56 reviews, summarized in a 2026 prospeo.io analysis): CRM integration most praised (9 mentions); data inaccuracy the dominant complaint (~13 of 56 reviewers). Post-acquisition analyses (prospeo.io, 2026) describe the brand as effectively sunsetting into Grata, citing Ramp vendor data (Mar 2026) showing a 6% customer switch rate. No notable Reddit or X discussion found in the past 12 months.

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