Inven vs SourceScrub
A side-by-side comparison of Inven and SourceScrub — two options for deal sourcing & origination. Pricing, features, and honest pros and cons.
Category
Deal Sourcing & Origination
Deal Sourcing & Origination
Rating
4.3 / 5
4.5 / 5
Pricing
Enterprise / Custom
Enterprise / Custom
Best for
Mid-market PE and M&A teams building target lists fast
Lower and core mid-market origination teams
Key features
- Natural-language company search across 21M+ profiles
- Ownership filters (family-owned, PE-backed, VC-backed)
- Intent-to-sell and succession signals
- Executive and contact data (430M+ people)
- Lookalike search from an example company
- Curated conference and trade-show source lists
- Private company profiles with firmographics
- Target list building and scoring
- Signal and growth-indicator tracking
- CRM sync (DealCloud, Affinity, Salesforce)
Pros
- Fast, genuinely usable AI search experience
- Strong European private-company coverage
- Cheaper entry point than legacy data terminals
- Deep coverage of bootstrapped, founder-owned companies
- Strong source-list methodology competitors lack
- Integrates cleanly with common PE CRMs
Cons
- Financials on small private companies are often estimates
- No public pricing — sales-led process
- Enterprise pricing is a stretch for very small teams
- Coverage skews toward US and lower mid-market