Head-to-Head
Sourcescrub logo
VS.
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Why Dealmakers Choose
Sourcescrub over Pitchbook

Sourcescrub is the leading Deal Sourcing Platform for dealmakers who want to use data, purpose-built tools, and on-demand services to methodically find deals and win more often.

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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 150,000 information sources and 15M companies into a web of insight so dealmakers see more possibilities and win more often.

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Pitchbook is a resource for data, research and insights on the global capital markets. Pitchbook uncovers information and trends within the financial data of over 3 million companies, with a focus on transaction information.

Pitchbook software offers data and analytical tools to discover promising opportunities and more. Features include: advanced search, discovery and insights, company profiles, workflow and efficiency.

Sourcescrub Differences

Unmatched Private Company Data

Specialized Data Operations

Purpose-Built Tools

Why did you choose Sourcescrub over Pitchbook?

Based on UserEvidence survey of people who evaluated both solutions, conducted May 2022
87%
Accurately classified bootstrapped/founder-owned companies
59%
Highly tunable search relevancy
57%
Volume and variety of Sources (lists such as conferences, industry lists, top lists, buyer’s guides)
50%
Human-assured data accuracy and consistency
35%
Minimum of 7 profile data points on every company
30%
Trended data history refreshed every 30 days

What does Sourcescrub allow you to do more effectively than before?

Based on UserEvidence survey of people who evaluated both solutions, conducted May 2022
80%
Filter for targets that meet specific criteria with industry classification, search, and filtering
76%
Find comprehensive universe of founder-owned targets
61%
Contact decision makers and build relationships
35%
Become intimate with markets using conference intelligence to accelerate learning
28%
Easily create detailed market maps to identify relevant add-on targets
20%
Prioritize targets with company scoring and other attribute data

Customer Who Chose Sourcescrub After Evaluating Other Solutions:

Sourcescrub has been transformative to our business. Our sales team uses it everyday. It is business critical to our sourcing efforts.

Leonis Partners

Neither Pitchbook, nor the other competitors, have the same relevant data for bootstrapped and founder-owned businesses.

Cordance

Sourcescrub has allowed us to focus our time and resources on building connections with high quality companies. It saves us time and allows us to only focus on companies that fit our thesis and target investment “strike zone.” Previously, it took forever to get the data to qualify targets

Virgo Investments

Customer Who Chose Sourcescrub After Evaluating Other Solutions:

Feature
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Description
Private company deal sourcing platform
Private market financial and deal data for transacted companies
Bootstrapped company data quality
4.75
3.00
Quality control
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Expert-in-the-loop machine learning
NA
Bootstrapped Company Data History
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Starting from 2016, focus is on bootstrapped companies
2/5
Starting from 2007, focus is on transacted companies
Minimum Profile Requirements
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Profile+ standard requires minimum 7 profile and signal categories
4/5
5 required data points
Rate of Refresh
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Companies are refreshed as often as every 30 days
NA
Target and prioritize
5.00
2.50
Uncover and classify bootsrapped companies
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Over 15M+ companies, focus is on investable bootstrapped companies
2/5
3.5M companies, focus is on transacted companies
Industry Categorization
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Dynamic and proprietary industry categorization
4/5
Home-grown industry categorization
Search Expansion Based on Company's Digital Footprint
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Over 130K+ industry lists, similar companies, saved search, news alerts, on-demand research
2/5
Similar companies
Custom Scoring
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Custom lead scoring
NA
On-Demand Research
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
On-demand data requests and 24-hour list processing
2/5
Has a research operations team
Build relationships
5.00
3.50
Pre-Built Lists (Sources, Conferences, Top Lists)
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
130,000+ pre-built lists that are refreshed when needed
NA
Leadership Contacts
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Contact information for key-decision makers is a mandatory datapoint for Profile+ companies
3/5
Contacts not mandatory, focused on professionals, not always executives or leaders
Company News
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
News from top-notch
sources includes topic categorization, sentiment data, and source notoriety
4/5
Includes news
First in line to win
5.00
3.50
Portfolio Tracking
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Saved search and alerting, pre-made lists of porfolio companies, company tagging and alerting
4/5
Ability to follow companies, growth signals and transaction history
Market Maps
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Similar companies, industry categorization, over 130,000+ pre-made industry lists, tag companies for personal list creation
3/5
Includes companies to watch list based on most funds raised or likelihood of fundraising, similar companies
Manage workflow
5.00
3.80
Alerts and Notifications
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Saved search and alerting, tagging and alerts for company updates
3/5
Ability to follow companies
CRM Integration
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Two-way integration for Salesforce, Hubspot, Affinity, Dealcoud, Dynamic, Dynamo, SugarCRM
3/5
One-way integration for DealCloud, Affinity, Dynamo, Salesforce, Dynamics
API
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Rest API available
5/5
Rest API available
Plugins
4/5
starstarstarstarstar
Web extension for all browsers
5/5
Excel plugin and web extension
Data Warehouse
5/5
starstarstarstarstar
Data feed for all data tables via FTP, Snowflake, Amazon Data Exchange, or hosted through Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure
3/5
Manual export of data feeds

*Based on ease and specificity of target tracking, market mapping, market intelligence, and contact information for decision makers.

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Sourcescrub gives dealmakers the most complete, accurate, and connected view of private markets available so they see more opportunities and win more often.
Over 700 companies see higher returns