# Sourcescrub Reviews **Vendor:** Sourcescrub **Category:** [Deal Sourcing](https://www.g2.com/categories/deal-sourcing) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 56 ## About Sourcescrub Sourcescrub is the market-leading Deal Sourcing Platform for investment and M&A teams who need the most complete, accurate, and connected view of private markets. Using a proprietary Expert-in-the-loop AI process, Sourcescrub weaves more than 220,000 information Sources and 16M companies into a web of insight in our AI-powered platform to discover, track, and engage the best targets. ## Sourcescrub Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **seamless CRM integration** of SourceScrub, streamlining the prospecting process and improving efficiency. (9 reviews) - Users appreciate the **extensive database size** of SourceScrub, ensuring comprehensive coverage for effective prospecting. (8 reviews) - Users value the **search functionality** of SourceScrub, finding it efficient and user-friendly for locating relevant companies. (8 reviews) - Users value the **effective target identification** of SourceScrub, enhancing their deal-sourcing and prospecting efforts significantly. (8 reviews) - Users highly value the **data accuracy** of Sourcescrub, praising its comprehensive and up-to-date company information. (6 reviews) - Coverage (5 reviews) - Users highlight the **easy integrations** of SourceScrub, enhancing productivity and streamlining CRM processes effectively. (5 reviews) - Functionality (5 reviews) - Ease of Use (4 reviews) - Efficiency (4 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **data inaccuracy** in listings, though the team works on improving and cleaning up records. (13 reviews) - Users note the **limited data** in Sourcescrub, particularly in outdated information and infrequent M&A updates. (5 reviews) - Users criticize the **outdated information** in Sourcescrub listings, impacting data accuracy and reliability. (5 reviews) - Users find the **poor usability** of SourceScrub challenging, citing clunky UI and inefficiencies in the sourcing process. (5 reviews) - Users note that the **UI is not intuitive** and can be clunky, affecting the overall sourcing experience. (5 reviews) - Expensive (2 reviews) - Improvement Needed (2 reviews) - Inaccuracy (2 reviews) - Inadequate Search Functionality (2 reviews) - Inefficiency (2 reviews) ## Sourcescrub Reviews ### 1. Powerful platform for investment research and origination **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tulsi R. | Business Development, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2025 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** The best thing about Sourcescrub it its extensive private company data and AI driven insights, making deal sourcing seamless. The platform's real-time updates, CRM integration, and niche data from trade shows help uncover hidden opportunities, making it a must have for investment research **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Well it is a powerful tool, but it can be pricy for smaller firms. The platform's learning curve can be steep, and sometimes data accuracy or depth varies across industries. More advanced filtering and customisation options would enhance the experience for power users. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the challenge of finding and researching private companies that aren't easily discoverable. It provides accurate real time data from niche sources, helping me uncover hidden investment opportunities. This saves time, improve deal sourcing efficiency, and gives me a competitive edge. ### 2. Great solution for private company data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris S. | Enterprise Account Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2025 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Sourcescrub is a powerful deal-sourcing platform that provides insights within private company intelligence and market insights. It excels at identifying bootstrapped, founder-owned, and private companies, making it an excellent tool for sales, private equity firms, venture capitalists, and M&A professionals. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Some users might find the learning curve a bit challenging at first **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its database is extensive, with a strong focus on hard-to-find companies. ### 3. I have been using the software for over 1 year so far and find it very useful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2025 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** It has been a great addition to my daily tasks. Provides very useful functionality which I use daily. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Sometimes they do not have a website in their database, but you can always request it to be added at a later date. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps me add companies to our database faster, easier. Allows me to be more productive ### 4. Source Scrub: User Friendly, Wealth of Information **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michelle K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** I appreciate the tagging/list saving and boolean search terms. Being able to search for companies based on employee size, location, etc. are great at narrowing down quality prospects. Also, checking trade show lists gives me more prospects to consider when I don't have the right search terms off hand. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** There are still some issues with emails bouncing. Bounce rates can be as high as 15%. SS does make it easy to get these fixed, but the issue remains that you have to revisit the same prospects a second time, which can be tedious. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Source scrub makes sourcing deals a breeze. 1) searching using the boolean search terms means I can exclude specific phrases, and include specific phrases. 2) ease of saving lists/tagging. I can return to the same search over and over again, and only see newly added companies. I can easily include/exclude companies I have tagged from this search so there is no duplication of efforts. 3) Ease of export & the wealth of information included in the export. I can use the export for linkedin URL's, contact info, business descriptions, ownership status & investment firms, and so forth. This export is then easily imported into my CRM (since there is no integration offered between my software choices). These efficiencies mean that I can reach out to more potential acquisition targets than before and keep my historical activities organized. ### 5. Unique Dataset **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Venture Capital & Private Equity | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** The best part about SourceScrub is that it organizes data into sources vs. just using keyword matching, which allows me to identify more similar companies that may not appear similar on the surface. Additionally, it has strong integrations with our Salesforce instance which makes prospect identification more streamlined. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** UI is sometimes a bit clunky, but improvements are made here frequently **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is used primarily for sourcing new deals and becoming an expert on an industry ### 6. Great database, clunky interface **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Venture Capital & Private Equity | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Our target focus is on bootstrapped businesses, and having SourceScrub has been an incredible resource in finding quality companies to go after. The ability to have a filterable, searchable database of companies that fit our criteria has made us so much more efficient, and has increased deal flow quality and quantity. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** The user interface with SourceScrub is not that great. The dashboards can be slow, and scrolling and tagging and other actions can lag and take a while. Although I'm happy with the results from the platform, I sometimes don't want to use the platform because of the clunky UI. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's hard to find bootstrapped businesses on your own, and having a full , in-depth database filled with companies that fit that criteria has been so helpful. It raises the floor for our BD because we know we're starting with bootstrapped companies, and can filter from there ### 7. Sourcrub - Different from other M&A databases **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Selby G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** CRM data enrichment, customer success management, conference attendee list, sourcing new leads and conferences, and creating customizable subscriptions and tags. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** The layout of Sourcscrub isn't intuitive to a new user, so I would suggest having a seasoned coworker teach you or reach out to their customer success reps. They're very responsive which is good. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to go to more conferences this year and Sourcescrub has been great to finding new conferences that we wouldn't know about. We can also export conference attendee lists to look at which is super helpful when comparing to our CRM. ### 8. Great Technology for CRM and Pipeline Builiding / Asset Tracking **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** IT is well organized and rich with easily accessible data. It can be integrated to our CRM pretty seamlessly. The Source Scrub google extension also makes tracking and accurately mapping associated company personnel very easy. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** The listings can sometimes contain inaccurate data or data that is stale. However, the team does do a good job of doing additional research to get the record cleaned up. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sourcing leads, qualifying leads, and keeping track of a specific ecosystem is most helpful. This has really enabled us to populate our CRM with leads that we can feel confident when completing outreach. ### 9. Indispensable tool for developing new investment dealflow **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sam P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Sourcescrub is a key part of the investment process at my fund. Few other tools offer the same breadth of information for proprietary sourcing that SourceScrub does, and the integration of humans into the data ingestion process is something I have found to truly differentiate the data the platform produces. I like the integration with our CRM the most however, as I am able to quickly scout / screen prospects. This is an essential part of the process for me. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Some of the financing data on SourceScrub is not updated as frequently as I would like. Often times SourceScrub will report no raises within the last 8 months but I search the name of the company and they raised last month. Also, the UI of the extension could use some work. It can be inefficient in my sourcing process due to the number of clicks required to get the info I need. HOWEVER, I did push a number of these complaints to the team and they promptly implemented a number of them. Glad to see they are in-tune with their users. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** SourceScrub aggregates, filters, and groups key data points that are relevant to our research process when looking into prospective investments. By providing and integrating this data with our ERP, SourceScrub allows us to increase our sourcing throughput and thus deal flow. ### 10. SourceScrub is the best! Not even a debate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marc P. | Business Development Associate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** The data is so quality! It beats all of the competitors by a mile! **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Only downside is that they changed the interface of a company page and we lost the chart, but I use the plugin the most anyways **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Business Development ### 11. Priceless **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** SourceScrub's integration with my CRM allows me to sprint through my work. SourceScrub enables me to expedite repeatable processes in order to find the best prospect. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** SourceScrub recommends multiple emails that are not verified. This information ought to be vetted before recommending their contact information. Other than that, the UI is not intuitive. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** SourceScrub is help us qualify leads so that advisors (like myself) are not wasting their time on pointless leads. Because of SourceScrub, I get more done in less time. ### 12. Great tool for sourcing efforts **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Meghan M. | Technology Investor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** I find the best thing about SourceScrub is conference scraping, it's extremely easy to export conference lists, including contact information, to excel. Additionally, it's great for finding company contact information in general **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** My least favorite thing about SoureScrub is the search functionality, I find that the suggestions are always in legal names which I'm not as familiar with. Additionally, I sometimes have to refresh before I can make another search which is annoying **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I'm doing sourcing, I want to be able to go to one resource to find all relevant high level info on a company (size, year founded, description, headcount, contact information), and Sourcescrub makes that easy ### 13. Associate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Declan T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Sourcescrubs interface is extremely easy to use and the plug in makes information gathering so quick and simple. I also really like the similar company search for target evaluation **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** I haven't had any major issues yet. I hope they build out the similar company search though so it becomes more reliable/better at combing website data as sometimes it can be pretty off as you go down the list **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for market mapping mainly and finding contact level information. I really like how good their data is on PE backed players in the space because it allows us to know who else is in the industry. ### 14. Great for M&A BD and General Comparable Company Screens **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cole S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** I have used the solution largely to find BD targets at my middle-market bank. What makes SourceScrub unique is its integration with LinkedIn to get the employee headcount information. I have found that this is the best proxy for company size without having to look at companies in-detail. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** It is difficult to supplement screens done on Pitchbook or CapIQ with SourceScrub. Often times I am interested in combining the screens that I do on other platforms with that of Sourcescrub, but you can only transfer the companies that have the same link on Sourcescrub as they do on the other sources, making it inconsistent and under capture. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping get more information about companies that are not captured on other platforms. Sourcescrub does a great job at getting comprehensive info on companies that may not be captured on other sites. ### 15. Best platform for founder-owned business market mapping **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rhys B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Comprehensive database of privately owned businesses with well indexed search functionality that allows efficient market mapping and target finding for businesses that are traditionally hard to source. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** The CRM integration does not include mapping to all fields we have in our salesforce system. Could have more mappable fields to bring into Salesforce. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding privately owned businesses in our area of investment are traditionally hard to find, and take many hours of google searching and other search metholds. Sourcescrub essentially does this for us. ### 16. SourceScrub **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Venture Capital & Private Equity | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** It has a lot of companies It has a lot of features It has a lot of S&M spend **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** The comparable companies feature is lacking Some metrics can be innacurate **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** The private market is very opaque and SourceScrub helps me see through the opacity ### 17. Great deal sourcing tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** SourceScrub has the best coverage of Company profiles, events and lists these targets are added to, and contact info **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** The SourceScrub team can be slow at processing new profiles or lists and the contact information is not always accurate **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Investment opportunity sourcing ### 18. Best way to find privately owned businesses **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Search and screening features to find relevant companies is great within SourceScrub, better than other platforms I have used. The U/I is also very easy to learn. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Generally, I find the data on the investments/acquisitions information to be less reliable than a system like PitchBook. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding founder owned businesses, canvassing markets, and finding lists of conference attendees. It streamlines all of these activities and makes the search process more efficient. ### 19. A Powerful Tool for Marketing Research with a High Price Point **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Heta R. | Operations Developer, Financial Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** The reason I liked source Scrub is because I used it to do marketing research and identify new customers. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** I didn't like the fact that source Scrub is a bit expensive , especially for small businesses or individuals who don't have a lot of budget for marketing research. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits of Source Scrub have benefited my company in terms of identifying new business opportunities and maintaining competitiveness in our industry. While there is room for improvement in terms of data accuracy and price, I believe that the advantages of using SourceScrub outweigh any disadvantages ### 20. Analyst at Investment Bank **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael D. | Investment Banker, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** SourceScrub is extremely benifitial to our cold outreach efforts. We find leads to put in our pipeline for business development emails. We source about 500 top funnel leads each week. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** The downside of SourceSrcrub is that some business flow through a search filter and are irrelevant. It's hard to sit and filter all results, so we sometimes get email replies to our BD efforts saying their business doesn't fit the subject category. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** We utilize the SourceScrub search function to tag industries that we target for our BD. We generate lists that we then send industry reports, deal announcements and other service offerings to. ### 21. Useful & Insightful tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Data quality is something that is the best about the Sourcescrub **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Previous financials is something that Sourcesrub need to invest on **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving the details of sources, events is super beneficial for the business to plan and target the correct audience ### 22. Good for conference lists & sourcing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jen F. | GTM Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** The Salesforce.com integration is pretty good. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Search functionality is clunky but gets the job done. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use SS to source new deals from the search functionality as well as list building technology. ### 23. Does what it promised to do, not much more **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Easy to use, has conference information which is super helpful for us to plan conference visits. Has private companies that may not show up in CapIQ sometimes. Unique data sources as compared to some competitors **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Functaionalities are still super spare. feels like a point solution than a complete platform. I cannot rely on only sourcescrub for stuff and there are limited integration with CRM/Outlook. User interface is not that intuitive (for example how to i save a company???) **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** we needs to know which conferences the sector we are tracking attend so we can go and meet company in person. But that's it. It falls short as a platform we will use consistently for sourcing function ### 24. SourceScrub allows me to be significantly more efficient with my day-to-day tasks. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Grant K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** SourceScrubs' user interface is extremely easy to navigate and allows for maximum efficiency. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** The only downside is out of date information and a lack of insight into previous transactions/deals. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** SourceScrub makes it easy to filter companies to whatever criteria is needed for a transaction. ### 25. SourceScrub Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Connor M. | Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Easy to mark companies to track and make personal lists of companies. Sourcing is much easier than using excel lists, etc. The Google Chrome add-in is the best feature offered. Just click the sidebar and you can see fundraising, employees, etc. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Search function can be difficult since you sometimes need the exact business name (legal name / incorporation name) to find a company **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Efficiently managing a sourcing pipeline for potential investments ### 26. SourceScrub Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** It makes discovering founder lead businesses much easier. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Have found some company's do not yet have profiles built out for them. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** SourceScrub has reduced the amount of time in finding founder lead businesses in the middle market for me. ### 27. Strong tool with accurate information **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** A A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Simple way to see employee headcount growth over time for a variety of companies **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Would be geat to have ability to compare different companies **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Primarily used as a research tool in analyzing new companies ### 28. Great Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Easy to find companies, their ownership, and key contacts. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** There are times where the key contact data only is mid-level decision maker. Also, M&A activity isn't updated frequently enough. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Identify targets in niche industries ### 29. Growth Equity analyst using platform for sourcing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Venture Capital & Private Equity | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Sourcescrub has more accurate funding and company ownership data than platforms I have worked with. It also syncs weekly with our CRM to keep funding and personal data up to date. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** The company descriptions are not always accurate and the UI has not been updated in a while from my understanding. Their emails have not been accurate in my experience. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** We primarily invest in bootstrapped businesses, and SourcScrub helps us better identify them. They also help us build market maps and source add-on acquisitions for our portcos. ### 30. A lot of helpful data for financial users **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** 98% of the time I can find the company I'm searching for in the database **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** There are times when the company's contacts aren't up to date (ie, a contact might have left the company) **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps me find company info I might not be able to find elsewhere ### 31. I use SourceScrub to identify potential target companies and to learn about the industry. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon R. | Associate of Corporate Development, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** I use the Google Plug-in the most. It is very convenient to find quick information on a company's website (leadership contact info, previous funding, relevant news, etc.). **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** It would be nice if I could import a CSV of companies into SourceScrub to collect information. The current process requires a lot of "if/and/or" logic to be added in a line. This can get confusing, lengthy, and complicated. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** SourceScrub allows me to gain a significant amount of information on interesting companies without going through an extensive process. It has certainly saved me time! ### 32. Investment Critiria **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel B. | Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Serach engine is a great feature of Sourcescrub. Personally, working as an investor focused on b2b software, the platform allows me to look for companies that are operating out of Israel. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** I do not dislike anything about the product. Nonetheless, I would appreciate if additional information regarding companies financials would be available. Although I know that most are private and hence its not easy. **Recommendations to others considering Sourcescrub:** Use Sourcescrub's help desk in case you face any issues or have any questions. They are super helful. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to put together industry-focused list of companies that I can reach out to and explore and part of my job as an investor. I am then able to reach out to these companies and set up an intro meeting. ### 33. Great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Super easy to find new, obscure lists and identify interesting companies **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** UI/UX is not the cleanest or prettiest, but easy enough to navigate **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Identifying new companies for investment ### 34. Great platform for identifying private companies **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Venture Capital & Private Equity | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** I save a ton of time using sourcescrub, rather than manually pulling data or scraping various sources. The ability to search across the database or find relevant industry conferences helps us identify high quality prospects. The datapoints on each company saves us from wasting our time on unqualified opportunities. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** I wish that there was more flexibility in how you can search and monitor sources/conference lists over time. Some common workflows can require manual steps that greatly increase the time required to complete. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sourcescrub solves the problem of having to collect data from various sources and gives you the full picture of each company in a normalized fashion. We've saved a ton of time using sourcescrub vs manually prospect list creation. ### 35. Very useful for quick information, company descriptions and news **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Easy to use the chrome extension - especially when doing your own research on company websites and need supplemental detail on a company. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Could have more information included on the site to supplement existing data **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving the need for quick info in a short time frame on potential targets, and ability to search with ease based on specific criteria. ### 36. Would Recommend for Deal Sourcing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** It catalogs bootstrapped companies difficult to find via other established platforms (e.g., CapIQ) or google search. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** A little difficult still to sort by industry codes. This is a newer feature and still get mixed results at times. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deal sourcing for founder owned businesses. Conference outreach lists. ### 37. Great sourcing database for investment professionals **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** The data points for each company are detailed and up to date. There is also a large database of privately held companies which is very useful for identifying targets. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Sometimes you will come across emails that have not been verified, which give you a bounce. However, the research team has pretty quick turnover so those bounced emails can be corrected. **Recommendations to others considering Sourcescrub:** Take a demo with the team, the platform is pretty simple to use for the most part. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the typical problems of scalability when it comes to sourcing thousands of companies in our desired markets. Sourcescrub allows for more scalability. ### 38. Positive, very solid UI and accurate data on private companies. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** UI is easy to work into workflow, accurate data **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Financial estimates and information are often inaccurate **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accurate business descriptions, headcount info, and contact data ### 39. Solid sourcing platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Its a no frills platform that removes all the extra fluff that other platforms come with. Its straight to the poin and shows the company attributes that I care most about. The contact info is generally more accurate than Pitchbook too! **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Its an ugly platform and fundraising history isnt always accurate **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sourcing companies and opportunities. Built a robust pipeline using SourceScru ### 40. Vice President, Corporate Development at a Private Equity Fund **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** SourceScrub is the most essential piece to our PE tech-stack related to sourcing. The platform helps us identify, screen and target companies in my firm's sector areas. In addition providing contact info for 1-2-3 leaders at these private companies is critical in making our business development team effective and efficient in not only targeting but also in contacting companies. Moreover, SourceScrub gives us an automated way to update our internal CRM with data points on target companies such as when a company's employee base grows/shrinks, when the ownership may change, or when a company plans to attend an upcoming conference. Over the course of the year, SourceScrub likely saves me weeks of time that I can now spend on higher value activities such as actually talking to companies. When I think about dollars, weeks of a team member's salary compared to our investment in SourceScrub is an absolute no brainer. I'll end by saying that without SourceScrub my job would be less effective and so much harder. At my prior firm, where I was also a customer of SourceScrub, I actually got into a fight with my boss over it. After showing him the value of it in dollars and cents, he conceded and gave me the budget to purchase SourceScrub. After joining my current firm 3 years ago, I made clear in the interview process that on day 1 we needed to become a SourceScrub customer, that was a must for me to do my job well. Fortunately, the firm I'm at now saw the value in the platform right right away and we purchased SourceScrub in my first week of employment at my firm. If sourcing companies is a part of your firm, which it should be for all firms, then SourceScrub is a necessary tool that your firm needs to have. I've not been a SourceScrub customer across two firms over 4 years, and I will be for the remainder of my career. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** SourceScrub is continually updating and improving their product and offering. Is everything perfect now, no, but no platform is a silver-bullet. But for this purpose, it's the best I've experienced and my peers agree with me. It shouldn't be compared to a pitchbook or capIQ or zoominfo, those are all valuable, but they are completely different solutions and provide different areas of value. **Recommendations to others considering Sourcescrub:** You need to evaluate SourceScrub with the lens of time. How much time will it save you? How much more effective will it make you and your team **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to understand which companies are attending a specific conference we're exploring attending and which of those companies could be a target for our firm is an enormous time-saver. To give an example, I can take a conference with 500+ total exhibitors and find the specific # which fit within the size range, geography and ownership dynamics that my firm looks for. From there we can take the narrowed down # and shrink it even further after reviewing the companies' descriptions to get to a smaller # of companies that we actually feel are worth reaching out to in advance of a conference. Once conference I reviewed yesterday for example had 450 exhibitors, and in 2 minutes I narrowed it down to 67 that were worth me reviewing. After reviewing the 67, I tagged 36 companies that were interesting to my firm in 20-30 minutes. This process without the SourceScrub platform would require me to click on 450 websites, research all rather than 67. Before I had sourcescrub, planning for a conference and determing the companies we want to spend time on took half a day if not more. With SourceScrub, that 5+ hours of work is now roughly 30 minutes. ### 41. Best Solution for Proprietary Deal Sourcing on the Market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Will W. | Principal, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Ongoing company research, differentiated focus on "sources" such as trade show attendee lists, responsive customer support, great features. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** The company screening page should be more robust. Should be more similar to CapitalIQ. I find that our screens tend to miss target companies, so there should be more ways to search using keywords. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very focused on our specific needs, as opposed to other data providers. Contact information, investor data, business descriptions, and the Chrome plugin are critical to our efficiency. ### 42. Principal **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Venture Capital & Private Equity | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Ability to find companies in certain sectors and email addresses. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Some of the email addresses don't work and thus those are not useful. **Recommendations to others considering Sourcescrub:** Nothing **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to find companies in certain sectors and email addresses. ### 43. Overall, SourceScrub is very useful for my sales activities. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark P. | Vice President Loan Originations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** New weekly sources, which typically contain a multitude of new prospects; timely responses to research requests; robust database of prospects; quality employee count information **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Email addresses are sometimes incorrect; lack of CFO/VP Finance contact info; inability of staff to perform large research tasks **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Refreshing my prospect list; locating email contact info; assessing viability of prospects based on employee count data ### 44. Easy to use, helpful staff, useful information **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michelle K. | Entrepreneur In Residence, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Sourcescrub has unlimited data pulls, helpful staff, and their email accuracy rate is about 88%. I use this platform almost daily to conduct cold outreach. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Merging with other databases is challenging. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for cold outreach to business owners. I also connect it to my CRM and use the data I pull from it to upload into SalesLoft. ### 45. Best way to find new targets and decision maker info **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Summarized data sets, decision maker contact info, constantly updated **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Need ability to multi-open websites instead of clicking one by one **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to find up-and-coming acquisition targets. Finding off-market deals ### 46. Easy way to quickly see key company information + populate your CRM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Venture Capital & Private Equity | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Chrome plug-in and Salesforce integration **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Management emails are sometimes off and employee headcount is often inaccurate **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Adding new targets to our CRM and efficiently scrubbing conference lists ### 47. Review of SourceScrub **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Plethora of easy-access data. Strong contacts in regard to decision-makers. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Availability of a company's address, otherwise nothing else. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Greatly increasing our pipeline and generating revenue from it. ### 48. I don’t know how to function without it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** Super easy for collecting data for sourcing efforts. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** There wasn't much to dislike. Sometimes the news function could be a little more helpful. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** I joined a search fund and we primarily used SourceScrub for our sourcing methods. It provided 90%+ of our sourcing pipeline. ### 49. Amazing! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** I use SourceScrub every to increase deal flow and efficient pipeline management. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** Only downside is the accuracy of financials. **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accurate deal flow for our spec has increased. ### 50. Intuitive Data Platform for Private Company Insights **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew S. | Sales Operations Strategist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Sourcescrub?** The platform offers streamlined insights into private companies that are easy to review, sync with Salesforce or filter larges lists of companies. They also provide custom research for companies that are not on the platform. **What do you dislike about Sourcescrub?** The Salesforce integration could be more customizable allowing you to choose how each data point syncs, right now you can all pick the behavior at the top level but you may want to customize it per field. Also, adding the ability to search companies by types of lists they show up in would be great (show all companies in a Gartner list.) **What problems is Sourcescrub solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gives us more visibility into companies within our database and helps us find new prospects by leveraging filters that meet our business profile. We've been able to get in touch with companies looking to fundraise. ## Sourcescrub Discussions - [What is SourceScrub used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-sourcescrub-used-for) - [View Sourcescrub pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/sourcescrub/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-19+08%3A46%3A29+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=16b55a3c-0ffc-4f5b-90b2-93eb37d5b10d&secure%5Btoken%5D=f148ee0b971d611a0f2cb316dab2e100cb98671c8a6ab3dc1a12eb8b8bd51f72&format=llm_user) ## Sourcescrub Features **Financial Information** - Data Visualization **Data collection** - Natural Language Processing (NLP) - Data Sources - Custom Research Sources - Lead Enrichment - Advanced Data Collection **Deal Identification - Deal Sourcing** - Market Mapping - Advanced Filters - AI-Powered Search - Multi-Source Tracking **Analysis** - Collaboration **Deal Management** - Deal Sourcing **Segment Trending** - Web - Social - Benchmarks - Finance **Market Intelligence - Deal Sourcing** - Automated Data Enrichment - Real Time Alerts - Investment Trend Analysis - Competitive Benchmarking - Performance Metrics **Market News** - Alerts and Monitoring - Market Information - Market News **Collaboration** - Task Management - In-Platform Communication **Analysis** - Custom Dashboards - Reports - Integrations **Workflow & Customization - Deal Sourcing** - Secure Document Sharing - Third Party Integrations - Customizable Dashboards - Pipeline Management **Platform Basics** - Interoperability **Platform** - Search - User, Role, And Access Management - Mobile User Support - Alerts - Collaboration - Compliance **Sourcing** - Deal Sourcing - Pipeline Management - Marketplace **Evaluation** - Scoring - Monitoring - Due Dilligence **Agentic AI - Market Intelligence** - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Financial Research** - Multi-step Planning **Delivery - M&A Software** - Deal Closing - Implementation **Agentic AI - M&A Software** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Sourcescrub Alternatives - [Grata](https://www.g2.com/products/grata/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (79 reviews) - [Datasite Diligence](https://www.g2.com/products/datasite-diligence/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (397 reviews) - [ZoomInfo Sales](https://www.g2.com/products/zoominfo-sales/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (8,852 reviews)