SwitchPitch gives bank innovation labs, insurers, and financial services firms a structured system to source fintech startups, run proof-of-concept programs, and track external partnership outcomes — without the spreadsheet chaos.
See how leading banks and insurers use SwitchPitch to find and evaluate their next fintech partnership.
Financial services firms face unprecedented pressure to innovate — from neobanks, embedded finance players, and AI-native competitors. Innovation teams at banks, insurers, and asset managers need a systematic way to identify which fintech startups are building solutions relevant to their specific challenges: payments modernization, fraud detection, regulatory compliance, customer experience, or wealth management.
Startup scouting software replaces ad hoc outreach and conference networking with a repeatable process: define the problem area, search a curated fintech database, run structured evaluations, and manage relationships through pilot and scale. It creates a defensible external innovation pipeline rather than a list of one-off experiments.
SwitchPitch is used by innovation teams at leading financial institutions to run open challenges, scout fintech startups across payments, lending, insurtech, regtech, and wealthtech — and manage the full partnership lifecycle from first meeting to production deployment.
SwitchPitch handles every stage of a fintech scouting program — so your team focuses on decisions, not logistics.
Describe the business problem: a payments modernization challenge, a fraud detection gap, or a customer onboarding experience you want to improve. Set eligibility criteria and target by technology type.
Search 600K+ companies or post an open challenge. Collect structured applications, score startups against your criteria, and align stakeholders with shared evaluation scorecards.
Manage proof-of-concept programs, track milestones, and document business outcomes in a CRM built for corporate-startup relationships. Report up to leadership with one click.
Whether you're modernizing payments or evaluating insurtech startups, SwitchPitch adapts to your program model.
Scout startups building next-generation payment rails, embedded banking infrastructure, and B2B payment automation solutions.
PaymentsFind and evaluate startups solving AML, KYC, fraud detection, and regulatory reporting challenges — with rigorous vendor evaluation workflows.
RegtechSource AI-native startups in credit underwriting, financial forecasting, customer personalization, and document intelligence.
AI & DataRun open challenges targeting parametric insurance, claims automation, usage-based pricing, and distribution technology.
InsurtechSwitchPitch replaces the combination of spreadsheets, email threads, and generic CRMs that most bank innovation teams are working around today.
600K+ startups with financial services filters: technology category, regulatory status, geography, funding stage.
Launch branded innovation challenges that surface the best fintech startups for your specific problem.
Collect security questionnaires, compliance documentation, and business cases through a standardized intake workflow.
Align innovation, technology, risk, and business unit stakeholders on a shared evaluation rubric.
Track every proof-of-concept from kickoff to outcome measurement in one place.
Designed to meet the procurement and security requirements of regulated financial institutions.
From our partner ecosystem
SwitchPitch connects your innovation program to a live network of 100+ VCs, accelerators, and university partners — so you get warm introductions and trusted recommendations, not just search results.
When a partner backs a startup solving your exact challenge, you hear about it first. That's the difference between scouting from a database and scouting from a network.
See which startups are being backed and recommended by your partner network — with context on why they're relevant to your challenge.
Access deep-tech and research-stage startups from MIT, leading universities, and national labs before they hit the mainstream.
Request introductions through shared partners — dramatically improving response rates vs. cold outreach to startups.
SwitchPitch's proprietary IRL score measures enterprise-readiness based on deployments, client traction, and ecosystem validation.
Join innovation teams at leading banks, insurers, and financial institutions using SwitchPitch to find and evaluate the fintech startups reshaping financial services.
