Verizon uses SwitchPitch to centralize startup scouting, automate discovery, and manage a high-volume pipeline of emerging technologies, giving a lean innovation team the reach of an organization many times its size.
Verizon's innovation team is responsible for identifying and evaluating emerging technologies across a massive, fast-moving startup landscape. The challenge is one of scale: the relevant startup universe is enormous, it moves quickly, and the team tasked with covering it is small.
Manual scouting, conference attendance, and inbound outreach cannot cover enough ground. Companies get missed. Evaluations happen late. And when every team member is spending time on sourcing, there is less capacity for the deeper work of evaluation, relationship-building, and moving promising technologies toward proof of concept.
SwitchPitch gives Verizon's innovation team an always-on discovery layer that surfaces relevant startups continuously, without requiring manual research for every new area of interest. Trackers monitor the startup landscape across defined technology domains and route new, qualified companies into the team's pipeline automatically.
The result is that the team can focus its time on evaluation and relationship-building, the work that actually requires human judgment, while SwitchPitch handles the breadth of sourcing that would otherwise consume the majority of their capacity.
Verizon's innovation team now operates with a level of reach and throughput that the team's headcount alone could not sustain. SwitchPitch acts as a force multiplier, handling the breadth of startup discovery so the team can focus its attention on depth, evaluation quality, and moving the best companies toward real commercial outcomes.
