SwitchPitch gives pharmaceutical and biotech innovation teams a single system to scout emerging therapeutics, diagnostics, and health tech startups — then manage the full partnership lifecycle from pilot to scale.
See how leading pharma teams use SwitchPitch to find their next breakthrough partnership.
Pharma companies have always relied on external innovation — licensing deals, partnerships, and acquisitions. But the traditional model (waiting for inbound pitches, relying on BD networks) misses the long tail of emerging startups solving niche problems in therapeutics, diagnostics, digital health, and manufacturing.
Startup scouting software gives innovation and business development teams a structured process: define the therapeutic area or technology need, search a curated startup database, collect structured submissions, run evaluation workflows, and track relationships — all in one place.
SwitchPitch is built for this use case with 600,000+ startups indexed, including deep coverage in biotech, medtech, digital health, and clinical AI. Teams at leading pharma companies use SwitchPitch to run open challenges, source partnership candidates, and manage their external innovation pipeline.
SwitchPitch handles every stage of a pharma startup scouting program — so your team spends time on decisions, not logistics.
Post a therapeutic area, technology gap, or challenge brief. Target by indication, modality, development stage, or technology type. SwitchPitch's guided setup ensures your brief attracts the most relevant startups.
Search 600K+ startups or let SwitchPitch AI recommend candidates. Collect structured applications and run scoring workflows with your team — R&D, BD, and commercial aligned in one shared workspace.
Track pilots, POCs, and deals in a single CRM purpose-built for corporate-startup relationships. Document outcomes for internal reporting and keep your external innovation portfolio organized across business units.
Whether you're running a targeted challenge or building a continuous scouting capability, SwitchPitch adapts to your model.
Run a public or invite-only challenge for a specific unmet need: a new biomarker, a manufacturing optimization, or a digital patient engagement tool. Define evaluation criteria, set a deadline, and let qualified startups apply from across the global ecosystem.
Challenge ProgramsSystematically scout emerging startups in oncology, rare disease, CNS, or any indication — with AI-assisted relevance scoring. Build a curated watchlist of high-potential companies across your portfolio's therapeutic priorities.
Startup ScoutingIdentify and evaluate AI diagnostics, clinical decision support, and digital therapeutics companies for co-development or licensing. SwitchPitch's database includes deep coverage of clinical AI and digital health, so you're never starting from scratch.
Digital HealthSource startups solving API manufacturing, cold chain logistics, or clinical trial operations challenges. Run structured evaluations across your procurement and operations teams to identify partners who can move from pilot to production.
Operational InnovationSwitchPitch replaces the combination of spreadsheets, survey tools, and generic CRMs most pharma BD and innovation teams are stitching together today.
600K+ startups with pharma-specific filters: modality, indication, development stage, regulatory status. Continuously updated with new funding rounds and technology descriptions so your team is always working from current data.
Collect NDAs, data packages, and pitch decks through a standardized application workflow. All submissions arrive in a consistent, comparable format — purpose-built for the rigorous due diligence process pharma partnerships require.
Align R&D, BD, and commercial teams on a shared evaluation rubric. Assign reviewers by therapeutic area or function, track scoring progress, and surface consensus rankings — no more emailing spreadsheets between teams.
Track every interaction, milestone, and outcome across your external innovation portfolio. Log meeting notes, tag deal stages, and document pilot results — giving your team a permanent record of every startup relationship.
Launch branded challenges that attract the best startups in any therapeutic area. Publish publicly to maximize applicant volume or run invite-only programs for sensitive briefs — the choice is yours on every challenge you create.
Designed for enterprise security and procurement requirements at large pharma organizations. SwitchPitch supports SSO, audit trails, and the data handling standards your legal and compliance teams expect from an enterprise vendor.
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 pharmaceutical companies using SwitchPitch to scout, evaluate, and partner with the startups transforming medicine.
