SOURCESCRUB acquired by DATASITE
Context
The acquisition of Sourcescrub represents the second programmatic transaction under CapVest’s $500 million institutional capital commitment, shifting Datasite’s monetizable footprint further upstream into the recurring deal-sourcing phase of the M&A value chain. By combining Sourcescrub with the recently acquired Grata platform, Datasite merges an expansive 19-million-company AI discovery infrastructure with an analyst-verified, high-fidelity dataset, creating a unified private market intelligence moat that significantly escalates client switching costs. This transaction facilitates a clean ownership transition from Francisco Partners, capturing an asset with mature domestic annual recurring revenue and placing it into Datasite's extensive international distribution channels to accelerate European and Asian cross-sell velocity. The industrial logic centers on utilizing Sourcescrub's structured data and industry-experienced analyst teams to train and optimize Datasite’s proprietary Blueflame AI workflow models, creating superior search capabilities that manual researchers cannot replicate. Management continuity from the foundational teams ensures minimal integration friction as the unified business unit focuses on immediate wallet-share expansion across shared institutional private equity and advisory accounts.
SOURCESCRUB, which reported an EBITDA margin of in 2025, is valued in this transaction at an EV/EBITDA multiple of , a level to compare with the average currently observed in the TMT (Tech, Media, Telecom) sector (14.3x).
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Target
Sourcescrub operates a business-to-business market intelligence and deal-sourcing SaaS platform engineered to systematically identify, track, and permission private middle-market companies for investment pipelines. The company sells multi-seat enterprise subscriptions primarily to private equity buy-side origination teams, corporate development executives, and investment banking boutiques seeking proprietary, off-market transaction opportunities. Its proprietary data pipeline ingests unstructured data from over 220,000 disparate data streams—including industry conference rosters, niche trade publications, and executive movements—to build actionable profiles on 16 million private entities. To maintain institutional airworthiness and eliminate false positives, the platform employs a hybrid operational architecture combining web-scraping algorithms with scaled analyst teams that clean, classify, and enrich profiles with verified ownership and growth signals. The financial profile is characterized by high gross margins, low gross revenue churn, and capital-efficient recurring revenue execution driven by an institutional procurement workflow that embeds the software into daily customer CRM and sourcing architectures.
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Target: sourcescrub
Acquirer: datasite