WHR and Sourcescrub, axis by axis
What this page says about Sourcescrub comes from Sourcescrub’s own public pages, read September 2026: sourcescrub.com · Why Sourcescrub · Private equity · Pricing · Grata and Sourcescrub. Products change; if a line here is out of date, their page is the authority, and we would like to know.
Choose WHR when
- You want physical-world activity as a company signal, not only firmographic or financial data.
- You want to map which companies are active in a market, category or geography through where they actually participate.
- You want to monitor companies for new participation signals, with activity benchmarked against each company’s own history.
- You want to see which companies appear together across events — co-presence — for a thesis or a market map.
- You want to connect company intelligence with geographic demand and event activity through the same graph.
- You want published, token-metered pricing rather than a firm-wide subscription.
Choose Sourcescrub when
- You need full private-company profiles — firmographics, people, investments and news — not participation records alone.
- You want growth signals such as headcount, job listings and executive hires, scored against your investment criteria.
- You want an origination workflow with native CRM integrations for a deal team.
- You plan conference trips around targets and want attendee lists matched to your investment parameters inside your sourcing tool.
- You want on-request research support from a data operations team.
- You want company financial, ownership and investment data in the same product.
What the Grata–Sourcescrub merger changes
Sourcescrub’s site says Sourcescrub and Grata are joining forces, and Grata’s says Sourcescrub is now part of Datasite, with its data and capabilities to be integrated into Grata. Several Sourcescrub pages already redirect to Grata, so comparing the two is becoming a question about one combined private-company database. WHR sits beside that database rather than inside it: it records where companies physically show up, in which role, over years.
Questions people ask about WHR and Sourcescrub
Is WHR an alternative to Sourcescrub?
An event is a signal that is time-bound and short-lived; the graph is what turns it into intelligence. Not a like-for-like one. Sourcescrub builds a private-company intelligence layer from the digital universe of company sources — profiles, growth signals and origination workflow. WHR builds a physical-world intelligence layer from events and the entities participating in them. An investor could use WHR as a signal source alongside a sourcing platform rather than instead of one.
Sourcescrub already has conference data. What is different about WHR’s?
For Sourcescrub, conference information is one source among many and part of a conference-planning workflow for dealmakers. In WHR, events are first-class objects connected directly to companies, people, venues, locations and roles — so participation is searchable as a relationship: which companies appear at which events, how often, alongside whom, in which markets, and how that changes over time. It is longitudinal, with records accumulating from 2014; it looks forward, to confirmed upcoming participation and new signals as they land; and the same graph can be read from a place’s side, as the demand those events create in a city.
What can event participation tell an investor?
Where a company chooses to spend on being present. A company that moves from attending to exhibiting to sponsoring, or starts appearing at a new region’s events, is showing an observable signal of market activity that traditional company databases may not capture. WHR treats presence as a filter and is explicit about its limit: it can show who is in the room, and it never claims to know the size of their cheque.
Does WHR provide company financials, headcount or ownership data?
No, and it is not a replacement for the databases that do. WHR records participation — companies, people, venues, hosts and events — and adds an observable physical-world layer showing where companies participate and how that activity changes. Revenue, headcount, ownership and investment data are Sourcescrub’s ground, and the two are complementary rather than competing.
What is happening with Sourcescrub and Grata?
Read in September 2026: Sourcescrub’s own site states that Sourcescrub and Grata are joining forces, and Grata’s site states that Sourcescrub is now part of Datasite and that its data and capabilities will be integrated into Grata. Several Sourcescrub product pages already redirect to Grata. The transition is ongoing, so their pages are the authority on current product details.
Where does the information about Sourcescrub on this page come from?
From Sourcescrub’s own public pages, and Grata’s page about the combination, read in September 2026 and linked under the comparison table.