Today we're launching SwitchPitch Explorer — a free-to-start tool that gives enterprise innovation teams instant access to AI-powered startup discovery, without a contract, a long onboarding, or a sales call.

Explorer is built for the way innovation teams actually work: you have a problem, you need to know what's out there, and you need answers quickly. Not in three weeks after a procurement process.

What Explorer Does

Explorer brings SwitchPitch's core discovery capabilities to anyone who needs them. You describe what you're looking for in plain language — a use case, a capability, a technology area — and Explorer surfaces the most relevant startups with the data your team needs to evaluate fit fast.

AI-Powered Discovery

Search by business need, not keyword. Explorer understands context and returns ranked results with IRL scores, funding stage, client signals, and capability summaries — so you can go from question to shortlist in seconds.

IRL Score

Every startup in Explorer is scored on the Innovation Readiness Level (IRL) scale — a proprietary signal derived from real enterprise adoption data, partnership activity, traction indicators, and ecosystem signals. It's a faster way to know whether a startup is ready to work with an enterprise like yours.

Ecosystem Signals

Explorer draws on data from 100+ VCs, accelerators, and universities — so you're not just seeing who exists, but who the innovation ecosystem is paying attention to.

Why We Built It

Most enterprise teams don't have a discovery problem in the abstract. They have a specific problem they're trying to solve, a meeting coming up, and a need to know what's possible in a space they may not know well.

Traditional startup databases require you to already know what you're looking for. You search by keyword, filter by category, and scroll through hundreds of results that may or may not be relevant.

Explorer flips that. You describe the problem. Explorer finds the companies.

"We built Explorer because the hardest part of innovation isn't execution — it's knowing what's possible. Explorer gives teams a fast, reliable way to answer that question."

SwitchPitch Team

Free to Start

Explorer is available now at no cost. Sign up, describe what you're looking for, and get results immediately. No demo required.

For teams that want to go deeper — running full evaluations, managing pipelines, tracking PoC outcomes, and collaborating across stakeholders — the full SwitchPitch platform is available. But Explorer is a complete, useful tool on its own.

We built it that way on purpose. The best way to understand what SwitchPitch does is to use it.

What's Next

Explorer is the first step. Over the coming months, we'll be expanding what's available in Explorer and deepening the connection between discovery and the full SwitchPitch workflow — from first search to PoC outcomes.

If you're an enterprise innovation team, a VC or accelerator, or a startup that wants to be found by the right enterprises, Explorer is a good place to start.