--- title: Vainu Reviews meta_title: 'Vainu Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 203 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Vainu works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 203 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: Sales Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/sales-tools --- # Vainu Reviews **Vendor:** Vainu.io **Category:** [Sales Intelligence Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/sales-intelligence) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 203 ## About Vainu Vainu is a highly-rated leader in the sales intelligence software space, providing B2B businesses with best-in-class company information. Vainu has the best possible coverage of business in the Nordics and the most advanced company profiles on a global scale. Vainu's comprehensive company database comprises 5M+ Nordic company profiles enriched with firmographics, technographics, trigger events, and proprietary data points you won't find anywhere else, such as exact industry classifications. Currently, Vainu helps over 1100 organizations find and focus on the best business opportunities and ultimately grow their bottom line. Vainu's advanced delivery methods and plug-and-play CRM Connectors with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, and Dynamics CRMs make integrating valuable company insights into your sales and marketing systems and workflows a simple process. In the Nordics, we also provide contact data sourced from official registries and open online sources. In addition, for the Finnish and Swedish markets specifically, we provide human-verified decision-maker data adhering to GDPR compliance rules when collecting these records. With Vainu, you'll always have the necessary information to plan and execute effective sales and marketing initiatives at scale —without any hassle. ## Vainu Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate Vainu's **accurate real-time company data** , enhancing prospecting efficiency and enabling personalized outreach. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Vainu, noting its intuitive interface and streamlined prospecting capabilities. (2 reviews) - Users praise Vainu for its **time-saving capabilities** , enabling quick access to accurate, real-time company data. (2 reviews) - Users value the **seamless CRM integration** with HubSpot, ensuring accurate and updated prospecting data effortlessly. (1 reviews) - Users value the **ease of implementation** with Vainu, enjoying time savings and efficient integration for prospecting. (1 reviews) - Users value the **easy integrations** with Vainu, enhancing efficiency and ensuring up-to-date prospecting data seamlessly. (1 reviews) - Easy Setup (1 reviews) - Helpful (1 reviews) - Interface Ease (1 reviews) - Intuitive (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Vainu's **integration issues** with CRMs can hinder the experience and make it less user-friendly. (1 reviews) - Users find Vainu has a **steep learning curve** that can overwhelm new users, affecting initial usability. (1 reviews) - Users find the **missing information** aspect of Vainu can be overwhelming, particularly during CRM integration. (1 reviews) ## Vainu Reviews ### 1. The best way to save time and reach the right prospect! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Therése P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Very easy way of finding prospects and skip the time consuming part of finding the "right" leads. The sales team will have a much more efficient work! **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Barely nothing to complain about to be honest.. Easy, smooth and time efficient tool that all sales companies should invest in to close more and "right" deals! **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** To spend the time on right companies and to be able to reach out to prospects when the timing is right. And also an easy way to find a nice reason to speak to your prospects with the news data. ### 2. Vainu is a great tool!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Thanks for a fantastic onboarding. We have really used i the right Way from Day 1 **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Nothing at the moment We are quite happy **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Yes **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sales leads - right contact persons ### 3. Easy to find relevant prospects based on data. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam W. | Director of Revenue Operations, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** The possibility to filter on different data points such as company size, geopgraphy, tech stack etc. Also, they have some cool things going on which will help us to improve data quality in our CRM. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Nothing really, but would have been nice to be able to easier find relevant decision makers for each account. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** A quick way to find our ICP and keep the CRM cleaning and up to date. ### 4. Platform with relevant, up to date information **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** The ease of use for the platform. You are able to easily integrate it into your day and find relevant information before a meeting **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Some minor features missing - these are minor and are only nice to havs **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to get up to date insights into the nordics. No other platform provdes this level of in depth information for these markets. We are able to better target prospects, and have more ammuniation in our pockets when speaking with them ### 5. Vainu requires some work for setting up but using it is a breeze **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** I find Vainu very intuitive and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Vainu requires a lot of work to set up correctly. Their team has been a huge help with it though, they are magical. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Do your home work and pinpoint your needs first. Communicate them to Vainu and see if it's right for your organization. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're using Vainu to find leads and grow our customer base. It has proven to be a useful tool in pointing our sales team in the right direction. ### 6. Vainu, impressive datasets, great engagement people, UI still maturing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ad v. | Owner, Senior lead engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Useful data, cool notification options (to Slack). **What do you dislike about Vainu?** UI and sharing functions still limited. I'd like to see other user's alert settings. And copy alert configurations to other lists. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** You really should take time to structurally use and research the possibilities **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Daily notifications of relevant signals enable us to keep an eye on the market. Starting to organize our outreach now. ### 7. Key Account Manager **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony S. | Key Account Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Finding simple background information from the client in a easy way. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** The contact details of decision makers could be a lot broader. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** If you have a large scale of customrs then Vainu narrows the list into smarter segments. Or if you dont know who your customer should be then Vainu will help you. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to solve a problem of getting new customers to our business portfolio. ### 8. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremi I. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Opportunities are great. No disadvantages **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Too many slides and clicks needed sometimes. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Easy to use and fast help for finding data **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Contacting new project leaders and great help for finging necessary data. ### 9. Very good prospecting tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** The alerts which help me to do prospecting without using time to search for appropriate prospect companies **What do you dislike about Vainu?** In the beginning it requires quite a lot of time to understand how Vainu works and how to create alerts and own lists **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Vainu can make your prospecting much easier and less time consuming. You can use the time saved to close new deals! **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vainu helps me to find new customers and I don't need to use time to search the prospects. I also find it very useful that Vainu shows the company's turnover and highest decision makers which in turn makes it easy to screen the valid prospects. ### 10. K **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jussi L. | Yrityspankin johtaja, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Get to see companies' financial statements. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** The financial statements are not fully visible. In some companies, the financial statements are very limited. Search functions should be such that Excel results would provide more extensive information, for example, the size of accounts receivable, equity ratio, cash and bank receivables, etc. Currently, only revenue and other relatively useless information for me are visible. This was at least the info I received when I last conducted a search. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** I look at companies' financial information, responsible persons, etc. In other words, I try to get an overview of the company's financial position. ### 11. The promises made have not been kept. Still a good product compared to competitors. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Segmentation is easy and logical. Importing your own lists, for example, based solely on the domain, is a good thing. Good experiences with customer service chat. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Vainu for CRM was not yet nearly the experience it was hyped up to be. Additionally, our contact person has changed several times, causing confusion in communication and in the general quality of service. Vainu may not be optimal for a company in mass business but seems to be more of a "fancy and feel-good" software for a slightly smaller company. For example, the mass transfer between Vainu and Salesforce has long been "in the works," and its absence significantly slows down and complicates my work. Additionally, not all filters simply provide the correct data. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Kokeile sitä ensin ennen päätöksen tekemistä. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Customer segmentation for sales and initial sales prospecting. ### 12. Key Account Manager **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arto P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Easy UI, all relevant company info easily to access **What do you dislike about Vainu?** I am not shore if I use Vainu as effectively as possible **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Absolutely worth to try **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prospects potential, economic situation and right contact persons More accurate contacts and better result for canvas calling ### 13. Easy to use with terrific customer support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jan S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Ease of use despite the numerous possibilities for customisation. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** I have not yet been able to find any major problems. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Following a member base of approx. 400 companies. ### 14. It is good and easy to find information. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** I can easily to find the information I need. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Since Corona situation started it has been quite slow and some "hick ups". The business field we are working is maintance, industrial so it is difficult to find right contact persons and right signals. It is missing foreign company info. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** How much is company revenue, signals, address details and location details. Integration to HubSpot. ### 15. Vainu.io **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Riina M. | Key Account Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Lots of information available, and it is updated. Excellent tool for sales! Very easy to use and helpful personnel. Extra tools are great, for example sales activity spreadsheet. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** I do not know. Maybe more contact emails of companies in excelsheets would be handy. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** I recommend Vainu, it saves time and nerves. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quickly find out what companies are in certain area and easily get the lists in excel. ### 16. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Good insight and data about companies. You can share the target lists with your team! **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Sometimes misinformation, super easy to use after you have played with the tool a while and understand the idea behind the searches. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Would be super helpful to integrate Vainu to CRM, do that if your CRM allows it! **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prospecting, company data, analyzing companies ### 17. With little effort, a lot of information! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanna J. | Kouluttaja, yrittäjänä, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** I quickly find a lot of information about companies and entities with little effort at once. When you learn to recognize things, it's convenient to use even in a hurry. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** The price is quite steep for a small business, and it would be good to get address lists larger than 200 at a time. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** If you enable it, make sure you have time to use it to get the best result! A very versatile tool in any case! **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Contact directly according to signals with various companies and parties. ### 18. Fuel you CRM and maximize the outreaches **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrik L. | Head Of Sales, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** User friendly and available in multiple markets **What do you dislike about Vainu?** The ability to identify twins could be better **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to be more specific in our outreach and know a lot more before an initial contact ### 19. Great UI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Vainu is really easy to use and compatible with most of the tools we use **What do you dislike about Vainu?** There are really few flaws. some odd browser related issues with Safari **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Make sure You implement it in your sales process! **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** New Business prospecting, signals - basically the funnel starts here ### 20. Great Company prospecting tool, falls short on lead gen **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Vainu is a great Company prospecting tool, especially when used with CRM integration such as Salesforce as it allows to import the Company by one click of a button. However, it falls short on lead generation as you will have to search for relevant people elsewhere. Superb support! **What do you dislike about Vainu?** No ability to generate leads on a level of a person. No bulk import of accounts to CRM. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Importing accounts to Salesforce is as easy as one click. Useful buying signals. ### 21. I find Vainu useful and support desk helpful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sami L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Flexibility to look at the data in different ways. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** I have one occation when using multiple filters I got wrong results but there was no indication of the fault so I might have believed the data if not careful **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Identifying prospects for cold calling. I can target the kind of companies I need to very well. Using Vainu together with Hubspot has enabled me to keep track on my activities. ### 22. Easy to use, prospecting tool. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael G. | Partner och Delägare, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Very good and easy to use tool that is now linked to our CRM and helps in our saleswork, especially prospecting but also getting information on existing clients that we work with. All information that is important is available in "one place" and we save a lot of time searching for info. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** The news and updates that Vainu looks for on various sites and news can vary a bit in quality. Some information does never come up and some noise overloads the mails we get weekly/or daily. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Integrate with CRM, get to know the tool, share insights and tips internally! **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We collect correct information about our clients, facts and news and we get our salespeople in touch with relevant prospects easier. ### 23. Useful and easy-to-use tool to manage customer relations **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Paper & Forest Products | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Vainu helps you to keep updated what happens with your current customers and to find new ones **What do you dislike about Vainu?** I have not found anything special to complain about so far **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vainu helps our organisation to manage customer relations and find new customers ### 24. Valuable prospecting tool for the recruitment industry **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** It is useful for finding out prospects that could use our service. Companies that are hiring a lot, that uses recuruitment systems with integration capabilities can easily be found with Vainu's filters for example. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** What might make Vainu even better for us would be data on job position application numbers extracted from Linkedin. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Go for it :) **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Knowing which prospects to contact that might need our services the most. ### 25. Great for entering international markets! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Great for understanding the big picture of foreign markets. Easy to search for key indicator numbers on market size and easy integration to CRM and mailchimp. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Does not reveal the cultural differences in foreign markets, hard to know how do the numbers relate to your own countries policies. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Great selling and information procurement tool! **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analyzing first steps in foreign markets. Planned my company's first selling trip according to information provided by Vainu. ### 26. So far Vainu is the best available tool for lead/prospect validation. Most comprehensive. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oskari J. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Features, filters and dynamic target lists. Link to website, financials and contact information on the same company overview slide. Easy to understand and work with. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Sometimes the loading times of the target lists are quite long. Mobile view doesn't work for me. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** For more business opportunities - Vainu is by far the most comprehensive tool with great features. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Vainu to validate companies, under specific industries, to fit them into sales campaigns that I'm running. ### 27. Vainu boosts new lead production **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** I like the software in general, it provides versatile functions for advanced prospecting **What do you dislike about Vainu?** the mobile app could be more improved, i would love a bit more enhanced possibilities with integrating with crm e.g. choosing between different pipelines when adding new lead in pipedrive **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** finding target criteria matching companies, information about new established companies in our target criteria matching group, automated information about new leads ### 28. Vainu - PostNord cooperation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Cooperation with Vainu has started very well. We have gotten help on implementing their solution and new aspects on the ways to use Vainu in the best possible way to support our business. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** I would like to be able to monitor our users' Vainu usage better myself. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Vainu in prospecting new customers and with their data we can also segment existing customers and their potential better. We use signals to see what is happening among our customers. ### 29. Hunted customer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wholesale | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** One bigger lead and in the rest fouded business via VAINU.io so far. Good. Basic usage is fine and ok by me. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Some individual difficulties to use it 100% effectively. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Good tool and platform for sales guys and girls **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** * Not problems with VAinu - more challenges by my skills to use it. * I founded via Vainu.io one bigger customer - hunted cu. ### 30. Simple but great! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Philip N. | Account Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Vainu?** It is great for prospecting, good layout for just checking a company. The absolute best thing are the filters for different types of list. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Not much really, I wish there were like a Homepage where you could easilly can see your different lists and/or a button for "Start looking for companies here" or something like that! **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Use the filters well **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pinpointing different prospects, Finding similar companies to the ones that are interested of my services, Finding companies that are growing in my area. ### 31. Insights of Prospects **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Best tool to get insights about prospect and search for twins. Love the ranking of digitalization and SoMe index. Easy to use and a very nice design. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** It´s a little bit difficult to understand how to handle different lists. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prospecting of new leads. Their index of companies digitalization and SoMe. Their insights of companies digital technology. ### 32. Great Tool for prospecting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** UI is very intuitive and dynamic. You can get up to date info and signals for prospect lists which makes it easier to target your message. Must have Tool for prospecting. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** It takes Time to find all The cool things available and learn how to Make them work for you. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Make sure your users knoww how to use Vainu effeciently. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prospecting. Data is dynamic and current. ### 33. KAM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juho-Pekka F. | Account Manager, Key Accounts, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Great ROI! Best fit for tech-savvy sales&marketing people. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** It would be great to have integrations for more CRMs'. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** I've been using Vainu around 4 Y's now and never settling for less in future. Best ROI for "sales enablement tool" in my 14 years career in sales&marketing. Take a demo and consider a pilot. :) **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Starting meaningful conversations at the right time. ### 34. Great tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Easy access to good overview as well as comprehensive information **What do you dislike about Vainu?** nothing really - I like the sercice well **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** For sales and other meetings to check company data and what' up ### 35. 1,5 years I hav ebeen using the service **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Quick access to date base, I use it as marketing device in order to gaining information **What do you dislike about Vainu?** It is not always up to date information compared to a company's web pages or the information in the company register. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding ideal clients from certain areas. Less travelling with more meetings ### 36. Vainu gave us at MPS great customer service! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Toni A. | Member, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** The service and support rocks! Also that it is Finnish helps. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** There is nothing I dislike. And I am hard to please. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can screen lead data much better with Vainu. ### 37. Good software - needs onboarding **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Teemu T. | New Business Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Lot of creative ways to use Vainu for sales. Both inbound and outbound work. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** It's a tricky software, and need help in the onboarding to get the full value. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were almost dropping from using Vainu, due to the fact that we didn't feel getting enough value. But with the help of Pirkko & VIlle, we felt that we got back in the game and signed the deal for Vainu 2020. Looking forward to get it in full use ### 38. It helps to find customers in our tiny segment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** "Tulevat remontit" segment and platform works very well **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Downloads to excel do not work. I have to move data to our CRM manually. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** I find prospects easily, otherwise I do same thing with google manually ### 39. The King of all List Makers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madeline L. | Account Executive, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Vainu?** I am selling in a new market, and I don't have the luxury of time to research the best prospects for me by researching 20 different websites. Vainu makes it easy for me to put in the criteria of the companies that could really use my company's product. The search fields allow me to be very creative and specific with who I am targeting. Then I just import them seamlessly into my CRM and I am ready to go! **What do you dislike about Vainu?** I still have to use other websites and resources to find emails & phone numbers... so the prospecting after upload from Vainu isn't a one & done prospect creation workflow. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** If you are selling in a market outside of the U.S. and have a customer profile or verticals that you have success with, but don't know where to start - use Vainu. It is great for customer acquisition company data and also keeping tabs on your current customers so you can be knowledgable about all major updates. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saves time - Saves me hours that I would have otherwise spent on identifying companies that are a good fit for our B2B offering. I also can use a 1-click import versus having to manually input information into my CRM. Business intelligence - Being an American who relied on Linkedin for all prospecting, it was shocking to see many companies in other international markets do not have a Linkedin company page, nor do many of their employees have a profile. That is why I am happy to understand the metrics and basics at a high level from Vainu. If the company looks like they have 4 people who work there on Linkedin, but Vainu tells you it is 36, Vainu is right. ### 40. Great overview of all corporates in the region/country. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martin K. | Sales Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Vainu?** The best thing is the reports that we've set up. Daily/weekly we can get updates of what's happening on the market. Since we work with all of Sweden and with travels, it makes us almost relevant to all company's in Vainu. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** I'm pretty impatient and it does take a little while to get the right settings to get the right reports. There's still a lot of article's that are not relevant. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We take away a lot of unnecessary foot work that needed to be done before. We can act a lot quicker and increase our revenues and market share. ### 41. Extremely positive customer service experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Whenever I've had any questions with Vainu, their customer service has always been top notch. They are thorough and friendly. You really get the sense that they want to help you find the solution you need. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** So far I cannot find anything to dislike. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vainu has helped me discover new companies to contact and discover new ways to think about b2b sales. ### 42. Very easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** All information at once. Easy to use.... **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Auto data display changed and no show deatails information **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Very Good **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We know the exact situation of the customer and all data same site ### 43. Vainu is nice to use and versatile. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Vainu conveniently gathers essential information in one place. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Vainu is ultimately just a database that doesn't contain much intelligence. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing anymore. ### 44. A functional prospecting tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Facilities Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Easy usability and find the necessary information **What do you dislike about Vainu?** When using different values, it is difficult to read **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Find key personnel easily ### 45. Good tool for creating prospects **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Vainu?** The process of getting the Vainu was well organized. As a customer I knew all the time what was going to happen next. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** It is easy to get unnecessary information from the Vainu triggers. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Worth of trying. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vainu gives good opportunities to make real time sales. ### 46. Vainu helps us find valid prospects. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lina I. | Försäljningschef/Head of sales, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Vainu?** East to find potential customers and pinpoint a good time to contact prospects. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** The data is not always correct, sometimes it shows implemetations that are old. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** Great system. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding prospects, saving time just calling companies randomly. ### 47. A real time saver! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gerald B. | Managing Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Vainu?** With Vainu, we find companies that would normally were fallen through our previous system of prospecting. Due to the very extensive filter possibilities, we are capable in very short notice, to create good prospecting lists for our sales team. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** Sometimes the news updates are not that actual, but I guess that has more to do with my filters.. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have created numerous lists with good calling prospects for our sales team. It has saved a lot of money and a lot of time! ### 48. Excellent support and inspiring employees **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fredrik S. | Digital Brand Manager, Printing, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Vainu?** Josefin Nygård was an excellent onboarding/customer success manager. The tool is good, she's the one that makes it great by unlocking its true potential. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** That you can't export e-mail addresses to your target accounts. **Recommendations to others considering Vainu:** If you're buying addresses or company information today, compare how many withdrawals you can do before you have paid more for those than for the entire Vainu solution. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a powerful, yet simple, tool for prospecting. ### 49. Best tool for Salesperson **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antero E. | Senior Sales & Security Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Vainu?** So easy to see how many locations the company has. I can see if the company has bought some equipment and then speak with customer about it. Customer get a feeling, that I have done my home work about them and I´m interested to work with them. I can search any segment what I like and really easy to use. Even if you are a little bit older. Chat is working fast enough. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** I don´t like the pricing from Vainu. There is (so far) no fee to single user. If Vainu`s customer is a small company with just one sales person, ylu still have buy a license for a group of persons. Ocasionally there is wrong phonenumbers to companys **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to find new customers and preparation to the customer visits. It is a fast way to see everything importand before I visit the customer. If I`m contacting new customer prospects, it is so far the best software to cut irrelevant prospects away from the calling list. ### 50. Makes the search for prospects much easier. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anton B. | Costumer- and consultan manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Vainu?** The website is easy to use and it contains a lot of good information about our prospects. Vainu is a great compliment in our sales process. My favourite feature is the search-engine, it is very easy to use and spares a lot of time. **What do you dislike about Vainu?** There could be a lot more Contact information availible. **What problems is Vainu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding prospects and following the news among important costumers. ## Vainu Discussions - [What is the cancellation policy?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-cancellation-policy-06a25e33-5d3f-4c88-8b6c-46ae1a36d44f) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What payment methods and terms do you offer?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-payment-methods-and-terms-do-you-offer) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How does Vainu's pricing work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-vainu-s-pricing-work) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What kind of data do you have available? 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