One platform
for your startups,
labs, and IP.
The enterprise partners universities want to reach are already on SwitchPitch — with active, budgeted needs. Surface affiliated startups, research facilities, and licensable technology to the corporate teams that are searching for university partnerships right now.
Your enterprise network is already here
Fortune 500 companies, global pharma, manufacturers, defense contractors, and financial institutions are already on SwitchPitch with live needs. University startups, labs, and IP can appear in their searches today.
Enterprise partners actively seeking university innovation
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Asset Category 1
Affiliated startups and spinout companies.
Universities generate spinouts, faculty ventures, and student startups year over year. SwitchPitch gives those companies a direct channel to enterprise buyers — while giving enterprises a trusted, curated view of the most promising companies in the portfolio.
Asset Category 2
Physical assets and research infrastructure.
The specialized research facilities enterprise R&D teams need most — quantum computing labs, wind tunnels, cleanrooms, electron microscopes, biocontainment suites — exist on university campuses and nowhere else. Now enterprises can find and request access to them.
Research facilities
Specialized labs, testing environments, and infrastructure that corporate R&D teams need to validate technology, run pilots, or conduct joint research.
Specialized equipment
One-of-a-kind instrumentation, prototyping tools, and testing apparatus that startups and enterprises need access to but cannot cost-justify owning outright.
Faculty expertise
Research teams with deep domain expertise available for consulting engagements, joint development agreements, and sponsored research relationships.
Easy to add to your profileUpload a spreadsheet of your facilities or simply point us to your existing research capabilities webpage — we ingest and structure the information so enterprise clients can search, filter, and request access in a format they understand.
Asset Category 3
IP and technology licensing opportunities.
Your tech transfer office manages a portfolio of patents, provisional applications, and unlicensed research with real commercial potential. SwitchPitch surfaces that IP to corporate innovation, R&D, and business development teams who are actively looking for licensable technology.
Works with what you already haveMost tech transfer offices maintain a public IP database or licensing opportunities page. Point us to your existing URL and we structure your portfolio into a browsable, searchable format for enterprise clients. No new system to maintain — your existing records become a live, marketed asset.
What enterprise clients are looking for
Corporate teams are searching for university partnerships. They just can't find you.
Innovation teams at large companies know universities have what they need — novel IP, specialized facilities, and early-stage companies. The problem is discovery. SwitchPitch puts your full portfolio in front of the right corporate teams at the right moment.
"We need access to a cleanroom facility for 6 months while we prototype. Which universities near our R&D center have capacity?"
What enterprise R&D teams ask"We've been licensing technology for five years but it still takes 18 months to find relevant IP. We need a better discovery channel."
What corporate BD teams needShare anonymized needs
Enterprise clients post their innovation needs to the platform. Your startup community and research teams can see relevant demand without any cold outreach required.
Centralize relationships
All your existing corporate relationships — sponsorships, research agreements, alumni connections — managed in one place instead of scattered across inboxes and spreadsheets.
Demonstrate impact
Track which university assets lead to pilots, licensing agreements, and sponsored research. Give development officers and provosts clear data on industry engagement outcomes.
Your startup community also benefits. When enterprise needs are posted to the platform, affiliated startups can see anonymized corporate demand — real problems with real urgency behind them — and request introductions through the university. This gives student ventures and spinouts access to enterprise deal flow they would never find through demo days alone.
Example enterprise needs
The kinds of university partnerships corporations are actively seeking.
These are real categories of demand from enterprise teams on SwitchPitch — spanning startups, facilities, and IP.
Tier 1 auto manufacturer seeking bio-composite materials research partnership
Looking for university lab with expertise in sustainable materials testing and a facility capable of structural load testing at scale.
Top 10 Global Pharma seeking licensable RNA delivery IP
Corporate R&D team exploring university patents on lipid nanoparticle formulations for next-generation therapeutic delivery.
Fortune 500 energy company looking for a spinout in grid-scale battery storage
Seeking university-affiliated startups with working prototypes in solid-state or flow battery technology for potential strategic investment.
Defense contractor exploring quantum sensing research access
Looking for university quantum computing or sensing lab for a 12-month sponsored research engagement with IP option rights.
How it works
From onboarding to enterprise partnership in four steps.
We designed the onboarding process to work with information universities already have — no custom data entry required.
Add your assets
Upload a spreadsheet, paste a URL from your existing facilities or IP database, or work with our team to structure your portfolio. We handle the ingestion and formatting.
Enterprises discover you
Corporate innovation, R&D, and business development teams browse your startups, facilities, and IP alongside the rest of the SwitchPitch network.
Matched needs come to you
When an enterprise posts a need that matches your assets, you see it. Your startup community also gets access to matched corporate demand they can act on directly.
You manage the relationships
Centralize all corporate introductions, research inquiries, and licensing conversations in one place. Track outcomes and demonstrate industry engagement ROI.
Already have a public facilities or IP page?That's all we need to get started. Our team will ingest your existing content and structure it for enterprise discovery within days.
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What universities get when they join the network.
SwitchPitch isn't just a directory. It's a live demand network that makes university innovation assets visible to the right corporate partners at the moment they are actively searching.
Startup deal flow
Affiliated companies get access to real, budgeted enterprise needs — not generic intros or demo day exposure.
Facility utilization
Make it easy for corporate partners to find and request access to your research infrastructure.
IP licensing pipeline
Surface your patent portfolio and early-stage research to corporate BD teams actively looking to license technology.
Relationship intelligence
Centralize every corporate engagement — existing and new — and track what turns into sponsored research, pilots, and deals.
On the other side of the market
Enterprise teams are actively searching for university innovation.
When corporate teams use SwitchPitch, they search for startups, facilities, and IP — not just company databases. University assets can appear in their discovery workflow the moment they are added to the platform.
Bring your university's full innovation portfolio to market.
Give enterprise partners a single destination for your affiliated startups, research facilities, and licensable IP — and give your startup community direct access to corporate demand they can act on today.
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