Serava is a lighter path to source-backed SMB target maps.
SourceScrub
SourceScrub describes itself as sources-first deal sourcing for PE, corporate development, banking and consulting teams. Datasite acquired it in August 2025 and is integrating it with Grata.
Serava
Serava maps lower-middle-market service, trades, healthcare and professional firms, with years in business (and UK director age) from government registries, not web inference.
Feature
Serava
SourceScrub
Buyer starting point
Ownership
Target size focus
Business types covered
Market stage of targets
Succession signal (years in business, UK director age)
Fit ranking
Revenue estimates
Target universe size
Geographic coverage
Contract commitment
Suitable for search funds
Suitable for independent sponsors
Bottom line
SourceScrub fits teams that want a broad private-company platform for ongoing research. Serava fits buyers who want to test lower-middle-market target quality before paying.
Sources checked
Last reviewed May 26, 2026. Competitor claims come from the public pages below.
SourceScrub Home Page
SourceScrub describes its sources-first deal sourcing platform, AI-driven workflow, 17M companies, 290,000+ sources/lists, and customer/result claims.
SourceScrub ABM Overview
Overview page supports the investment/M&A audience, private-company data positioning, data operations, and source-connected company profile claims.
Datasite acquires SourceScrub (Aug 2025)
Datasite announced the acquisition of SourceScrub in August 2025 and its integration with Grata, following Datasite’s June 2025 acquisition of Grata.
The public SourceScrub pages reviewed here do not provide a current simple price table. This page therefore compares audience, workflow, data posture, and source model instead of repeating stale third-party price ranges.
SourceScrub cites a broad private-company universe, so buyers should evaluate actual coverage against their niche during a sales process. Serava is intentionally tuned around operating-company and local-market target maps, including healthcare practices, trades, professional services, infrastructure engineering, and industrial components.
For a buyer who wants a fast, lower-commitment map of SMB or lower-middle-market targets, Serava is the better starting point. For a PE team that already runs a large sourcing operation and wants enterprise source-list infrastructure, SourceScrub may be a better fit.
Serava emphasizes public-source records such as healthcare/provider registries, license boards, corporate registries, map data, official open data, websites, and contact/source provenance that can be explained in a target evidence card.
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