Inven vs. Sourcescrub

Find and win more deals with Inven

Inven helps dealmakers find companies others can’t. Inven’s AI-native platform enables users to reach insights faster and cover lower and middle market in greater depth.
Global reach: Uncover 28M+ companies — from hidden local firms to high-growth cross-border opportunities.
AI-native discovery: Forget rigid filters. Type your search like you’d ask an analyst.
Intelligent automation: Instantly enrich profiles, spot intent-to-sell signals, and capture deals before they hit the market.
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What sets Inven apart

Inven delivers broader company coverage, sharper search precision, and a smoother workflow experience for modern M&A teams.

Use case

AI-driven deal sourcing, early discovery and proactive outreach.

Deal sourcing by a manually confirmed, web-search based process.

Coverage

Inven database covers 28+ million companies globally.

~17 million company profiles.

Search precision

Search the way you think with high-precision, AI-driven natural-language search.

Filter-based keyword search requiring precise terms and manual refinement.

Data enrichment

Continuous AI-driven data enrichment with AI Screener 2.0.

Manual enrichment available on request.

Contact data

430M+ verified executive contacts from various data providers.

Contact data via Profiles+ add-on.

Ownership data

Identify and filter PE-backed, family-owned, public, and private companies globally.

Focused mainly on privately owned companies.

CRM integration

Yes, included in the price.

Add-on feature.

Intent signals

AI-powered predictive signals identify owners seeking an exit or companies approaching a funding round.

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Financial & valuation data

Includes revenue estimates, public financials, funding data, and registry-based private financials with increasing coverage.

Provides revenue estimates for private companies.

User experience

Rated 4.8/5 on G2. Designed for intuitive deal sourcing workflows with natural language prompts and example-based search.

Functional but less intuitive interface, requiring more manual filtering and setup for sourcing workflows.

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"I don't know what the secret sauce is, but there are definitely names that showed up on Inven that didn't show up on other deal sourcing platforms."

Ben Rapaport
Partner and Co-Founder at Edgehill Management

Inven vs. Sourcescrub explained

An overview of the most common questions about how Inven compares to Sourcescrub.
What’s the main difference between Inven and Sourcescrub?
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Sourcescrub collects information from a range of public sources by webscraping and validates it manually, which limits speed and scale. Inven’s AI-native model automates this process – analyzing sources, official registries, and partner data to uncover 28+ million global companies. Because its AI connects patterns and context that human verification can miss, Inven gives dealmakers faster access to opportunities with broader and more current coverage. Inven builds lists faster, offers AI enrichment for results, and includes features that objectively set it apart from the capabilities of Sourcescrub.

How do Inven and Sourcescrub differ in usability and workflows?
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Inven’s interface is designed for M&A professionals who want fast, flexible deal sourcing. Users can search in natural language, build dynamic lists, and integrate directly with their CRM, all within one workflow. Users describe it as intuitive, fast, and built around how deal professionals actually think and work. Sourcescrub emphasizes structured, document-based discovery. While it offers source tracking, searches often require more manual filtering and external tools.

What makes Inven an AI-native platform?
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Inven represents a new era of deal sourcing – one where the entire platform is built on AI, rather than AI being added on as a feature. As the first global AI-native deal sourcing platform, Inven understands context and continuously analyzes a wide range of data sources and partner insights to deliver unique intelligence and capabilities. AI is the foundation of how Inven’s data is collected, processed, and connected. This foundation allows users to search in natural language and instantly receive context-aware results enriched with ownership, financial, and intent-to-sell insights. Users can also leverage AI to enrich lists with data points tailored to their sourcing needs. Because AI operates at the core of the system – not just on top of it – Inven delivers a faster, more adaptive, and globally scalable sourcing experience.

Why choose Inven for deal sourcing?
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Choose Inven if your team values intelligent, AI-driven discovery that adapts to your search intent and identifies niche or emerging opportunities earlier and across markets. Inven tracks 28+ million companies globally and provides insights into past deals, ownership structures, intent-to-sell indicators, and other key company data. Inven stands out as the go-to platform for M&A professionals who want to go beyond financial databases, save research time and streamline sourcing workflows.

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CUSTOMER RESULTS

Faster insights, better value

1000+ leading M&A firms use Inven to find niche private market companies globally.

30% more targets found with Inven

“Compared to other platforms, Inven has added at least 30% more targets for me. It provides a more thorough search experience, almost like scrubbing the entire internet.”
Cam Bryan
Managing Partner at Augusta Advisors

3x more buyers per project

“Inven doesn’t just make us faster — it helps us grow revenue by finding buyers we wouldn’t reach otherwise.”
Rafael Frugis
Partner at IGC

10x faster sourcing process

“With Inven, we go from nothing to a clean, enriched, and actionable list in just 15–30 minutes. And with the integrations in play, we can start an outreach right away.”
Thomas Archer
Investment Analyst at Lexar Partners

Stop searching, start finding

Stop missing opportunities and wasting time manual filtering. Inven lets you analyze any market with global coverage and zero blind spots.

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