Inven vs. sourcescrub

Find and win more deals with Inven

Inven helps dealmakers find companies others can’t. Inven’s AI enables users to reach insights faster and cover lower and middle market in greater depth.

      • Global reach — uncover 28M+ companies
      • Type your search like you'd ask an analyst with AI-native discovery
      • Instantly enrich profiles, spot intent-to-sell signals, and capture deals before others
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Deloitte
ARCHIMED
PwC
Axcel
Moelis & Company
Oaklins
Cantor Fitzgerald
Clearwater
J.S. Held
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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 platforms.”

Ben Rapaport
Co-Founder

What sets Inven apart

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 28M+ 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.

Not available.

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.

Deal search

People search
Similar company search
Buyer list building
Chrome extension
API

Inven vs. Sourcescrub explained

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.

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.

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.

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.

Quicker insights, better deal flow

1,000+ leading M&A firms use Inven to uncover private markets globally.

Our data

28M+

Companies globally indexed

Every major market and emerging opportunity included

3M+

Transactions

Deal signals across all sectors in real time

430M+

Verified professional contacts

Decision makers mapped with current roles

160+

Markets with active coverage

No blind spots where deals actually happen

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4–5×

faster target identification

"Inven is my go-to platform for deal sourcing: faster, more relevant, and simply a better use of my time." – Andrew Guest, Investment Analyst

Rafael Frugis
Partner, IGC Partners
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10×

faster market research

"Inven gives my team a clean, relevant universe from the first search. That's where the real time savings compound." – Stefan Söderström, Managing Partner

Rafael Frugis
Partner, IGC Partners
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more buyers per mandate

"For us, the real impact of Inven is revenue. More qualified buyers means more closed deals." – Rafael Frugis, Partner

Rafael Frugis
Partner, IGC Partners
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Search Funds