# SourceScrub

Private-company data built from lists and events.

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.

- Category: Off-Market Data & Outreach
- Pricing model: Custom Pricing
- Where it fits: Source & Screen Deals
- Website: https://www.sourcescrub.com

## At a Glance

A PE-grade sourcing database now being absorbed into Grata after Datasite's August 2025 acquisition. Funded [searchers](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/searcher) with tech theses may still extract value via group discounts, but [self-funded searchers](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/self-funded-search) buying sub-$2M [EBITDA](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/ebitda) Main Street businesses should skip it: the price, the coverage, and now the product roadmap all point elsewhere.

## What It Costs

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](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/search-fund) 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 for self-funded searchers buying sub-$2M EBITDA Main Street businesses: their target universe is largely absent from the dataset, and enterprise quotes outrun their budget.

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: Sources-first model traces every company back to the conference list, award, or association where it appeared; it's strong for surfacing bootstrapped, founder-owned tech companies invisible in registry-based databases
- Pro: Searchfunder users report notably low email bounce rates for software/tech contacts, since that population lives on LinkedIn and conference rosters
- Pro: Native CRM integrations (Salesforce, DealCloud, HubSpot) are the single most-praised feature across G2 reviews
- Pro: Has historically offered group discounts to search fund cohorts, softening its PE-grade pricing for searchers who organize
- Con: 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)
- Con: 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
- Con: 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
- Con: 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
- Con: 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.

## Compared With

- Which private-company data platform for proprietary sourcing? (https://searchspheresource.com/resources/compare/grata-vs-sourcescrub.md)

## Sources

- https://www.sourcescrub.com/sourcescrub-pricing
- https://www.sourcescrub.com
- https://www.datasite.com/en/company/news/datasite-to-merge-sourcescrub-and-grata-expanding-private-market-intelligence-solutions
- https://grata.com/grata-and-sourcescrub
- https://searchfunder.com/post/does-anyone-have-experience-using-sourcescrub
- https://searchfunder.com/post/sourcescrub-vs-grata
- https://searchfunder.com/post/grata-vs-sourcescrub
- https://prospeo.io/s/sourcescrub-alternatives
- https://prospeo.io/s/sourcescrub-pricing-reviews-pros-and-cons
- https://www.g2.com/products/sourcescrub/reviews

Also on this site: https://searchspheresource.com/resources/category/offmarket-data.md
Source: https://searchspheresource.com/resources/sourcescrub
Last checked: 2026-09-05

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