"I'm very impressed with Inven's offerings and currently consider
Inven as the market leader in terms of performance."
German Investment Bank
"There are a lot of companies that Inven has which other platforms don't."
Craig McNally
Managing Partner at Desert Horizon Capital
"With Inven it's easy to very quickly generate a high-quality target list in a given sector."
Ben Rapaport
Partner and Co-Founder at Edgehill Management
"The UI is creative. Easy to use, easy to understand, easy to navigate. Easy to find what you’re looking for quickly."
Richard Phillips
Co-Founder at Crossroads Capital
Inven goes beyond Sourcescrub. Built from the ground up with AI, Inven offers the most accurate search, broader data coverage, and a user experience that just makes sense. See the difference below.
Data coverage
With over 21 million companies with full business profiles across North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.
16 million companies, primarily focused on North America, with full profiles available for 2.6 million.
Use case
Sourcing proprietary deal flow and finding M&A targets and platform companies. Used for finding all relevant companies globally.
For finding data especially on a single known company and for sourcing deal flow.
AI maturity
Al isn't just an add-on at Inven — it's built into the very foundation of the platform. Advanced algorithms drive every aspect of how we collect, analyze, and integrate data to deliver unique insights and features.
While some individual AI features are available, they were incorporated into the exciting platform at a later stage.
User experience
Inven is praised for its user-friendly interface, extensive company database, and effective AI-driven search capabilities that enhance M&A target identification.
Users have reported issues with its clunky and sometimes slow user interface, as well as occasional data inaccuracies.
Search accuracy
Inven’s search model delivers 93% accuracy, setting a new benchmark in deal sourcing. It maintains high-quality results—even when exploring beyond the top 1,000 results.
The search functionality often requires exact legal names and manual filtering, which makes it challenging to efficiently retrieve the desired results.
Data collection
Inven is built on AI-driven data collection, using the most granular and up-to-date data from websites, government registers, news, blogs, social media, and more.
Heavily reliant on manual data collection, with AI enhancements.
Contact data
Verified contact data on 430M+ professionals with a focus on titles such as CEO, Founder, Owner, Head of M&A and CFO.
Contact information for "key decision makers", no information on exact titles available.
Ownership data
Filter PE-backed companies, family-owned companies, publicly listed companies and private companies.
Focused only on privately owned companies.
Intent data
Intent to sell -filter to find companes likely looking to sell.
Not available.
Similar company search
Provide a single company or a list, and Inven's advanced AI-powered search algorithm will analyze the data to identify all similar companies out there.
Offers the Similar Companies feature, allowing you to identify companies with similar profiles, industries, and specialties.
Natural language search
Just describe what you are looking for, and Inven will give you a list of all relevant companies out there.
Not available.
Deal search
"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
Find what others miss with Inven’s high coverage of the lower middle market and middle market.
Get started -->Inven’s AI-driven search understands nuanced queries and delivers high-quality results beyond the top-ranked results.
Get started -->Inven's intuitive search experience makes it easy to find the right deals quickly, with no complex setup or steep learning curve.
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No more detective work or endless Google searches.
Inven is the only deal sourcing platform that combines global reach, a first-of-its-kind AI engine, and a user experience built for speed and results. This unique combination allows us to gather and analyze data at scale, ensuring no opportunity is missed. We believe powerful tools should be simple to use—our intuitive search experience makes it easy to find the right deals quickly, with no complex setup or steep learning curve.
AI isn’t just an add-on at Inven—it’s built into the very foundation of our platform. AI is integrated into every aspect of how we collect, analyze, and combine data into the unique data points and features we offer. Powered by the industry’s first AI engine of its kind, Inven redefines deal sourcing—all while ensuring an intuitive and seamless user experience. The AI works quietly in the background, continuously surfacing the most relevant companies with the most up-to-date data. And thanks to natural language search, you can find high-potential deals other platforms miss, just by describing what you’re looking for.
Yes, you can sync your data with Salesforce, Affinity, and HubSpot for seamless deal sourcing and management.
You can get started by filling up the form on our Get Started page or by directly booking a call with one of our AEs. In the call, they’ll show you how Inven works and walk you through how it could support in your use case.
Inven is an intelligent company data platform designed for M&A professionals, private equity firms, and Investment bankers. It helps users to identify acquisition targets, potential buyers, and market trends with ease. Inven consolidates and analyzes data on over 21 million companies, providing deep insights, predictive signals, and comprehensive company profiles – all in one place. Inven eliminates the need for manual research, delivering relevant companies and key data points instantly.
Using Inven is effortless, and we’re proud to be recognized as one of the most user-friendly platforms available. Simply tell Inven what you're looking for, and it does the rest. Our AI pulls data from millions of sources, analyzes it, extracts key insights, and delivers a refined list of relevant companies. No more endless searching—just the right opportunities and critical data points, instantly.
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