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SourceScrub is built around sources such as conference and award lists, helping teams discover founder-owned companies. Vequity starts with acquisition behavior and the reasons deals happened, so every portfolio company has a standing add-on pipeline with a written rationale for each target.
170,000
deals over 26 years
2.3M
company profiles, mapped by capability
1,900+
firms and portfolio companies with declared proprietary acquisition criteria
470 investment firms and 1,481 portfolio companies
Where they differ
Data model
Sources-first: companies linked to the lists and conferences where they appear
Starts from 170,000 deals and why they happened
Classification
NAICS codes and keywords
Vequity Investment Taxonomy plus capability tags
Deal history
Not a focus
170,000 transactions with the acquirer’s stated rationale
Buyer intent
Not documented
1,900+ firms and portfolio companies with declared proprietary acquisition criteria
Rationale per name
Not provided
A written rationale for every target and buyer
Portfolio pre-population
You build each search
Every company you own arrives with a draft pipeline
Users
Firm-wide export caps and extension-only seats
Unlimited users per firm and per portfolio company
Best for
Finding founder-owned companies through conference and award lists
A standing add-on pipeline per portfolio company with the rationale attached
Competitor descriptions are from the vendor’s public materials as of October 2026.
When to use both
Use SourceScrub to discover founder-owned companies through conference, award and other source lists. Use Vequity to prioritize which of those companies fit each portfolio company’s acquisition behavior and maintain an add-on pipeline with the rationale attached.