Grata
Search engine for the private middle market
4.3Enterprise / CustomBest for Growth investors sourcing bootstrapped companies
Sourcing Middle Market ML Search
Overview
Grata, acquired by Datasite in 2024, is a private-company search engine that reads company websites with machine learning to find and classify the middle-market and bootstrapped businesses that never announce funding. You search by what companies actually do rather than stale industry codes, then pull contacts and build target lists. Core users are PE and M&A teams, but growth investors sourcing beyond the venture bubble get the same edge.
Key features
- ML-powered search over company websites
- Coverage of bootstrapped, unfunded companies
- Similar-company discovery and market mapping
- Executive contact data
- CRM integrations and list exports
Pros
- Finds companies invisible to funding-event databases
- Semantic search beats industry-code filtering
- Strong contact coverage for outreach
Cons
- Mid-market, US-centric focus fits growth better than seed
- Enterprise pricing for a sourcing-only tool