Proprietary search data sources

by a searcher from University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

5 months ago

What data sources to find businesses in a proprietary search have people found most helpful, and why? E.g., Grata, SourceScrub, Data Axle etc.

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professional from King's College London, University of London

Inven is a great tool, many SFs in Europe are using this and it has very good data on the US as well. At Brightreach we have designed a ranking algorithm to prioritise companies and retrieve their owners/contact data through machine learning!

1 week ago | like reply | 0 likes

intermediary from Wesleyan University

Please check out this tool that is currently in BETA https://app.pemarketplace.co/?page=company_search

2 weeks ago | like reply | 1 like

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