PPP Loans - ETA Search App

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February 05, 2025

by a searcher from University of Virginia-Darden - Darden School of Business in Charlottesville, VA, USA

Hey all,

Figured that this project I've built for my own search might be useful to everyone here. I put all 12M PPP loans into the cloud and then backtracked out estimated revenue and EBITDA using industry & payroll margins. I then built a front end app where you can filter and export a CSV file of the companies.

https://pppfinder.com

I'd love to hear people's thoughts on how to improve it and what could make it more useful to the community. As for right now you get 100 rows to export for free and then it's $10 per 1000 rows but I'm curious on what you think is fair.

Feedback is welcome!

Custis

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from North Carolina State University in Pennsylvania, USA
This is helpful thanks! A few comments for your consideration: 1 out of 6 specific companies I searched on your app were found. Maybe only 1 out of those 6 use a PPP loan if I am understanding correctly... Are you considering expanding it to all companies even for the ones that don't have PPP loans? - Whenever I save the link for a specific company, It does not save the search. It takes me back to the blank search. Maybe this could be an improvement.--- Pretty simple and straightforward. Thanks for sharing!
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from University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, USA
^redacted‌ I believe you are correct in your understanding that those companies may not have used a PPP loan. A quick search shows there are 33M companies in the US and my database has 12M.

I am thinking about expanding using some other sources.

Thanks for the feedback on saving specific companies. I work on getting that fixed.
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