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SourceScrub

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Deal sourcing data on privately held companies

4.5Enterprise / CustomBest for Lower and core mid-market origination teams
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Overview

SourceScrub is a deal-sourcing platform focused on bootstrapped and privately held companies, aggregating data from tens of thousands of conference and trade-show lists, industry sources, and the open web. It helps origination teams build and prioritize target lists, track companies, and enrich records with contact and signal data.

Key features

  • 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)
  • Contact enrichment

Pros

  • Deep coverage of bootstrapped, founder-owned companies
  • Strong source-list methodology competitors lack
  • Integrates cleanly with common PE CRMs

Cons

  • Enterprise pricing is a stretch for very small teams
  • Coverage skews toward US and lower mid-market

What people say

Illustrative
"The conference list coverage is the differentiator for us — we find founder-owned targets nobody else has mapped."
Head of Origination
Lower mid-market buyout fund

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