Every pitch, evaluated on the same standard.Backed by research. Defensible in the room.

Launchet gives your program a grounded, scored read on every venture it touches, from students and alumni to open-call founders. For the classroom, the competition, the incubator cohort, and the investor day.

Free to start. Built on a published methodology refined over 28+ years.

competition-review
This cycle's submissions
Scored on one grounded standard
Venture Fund Award
Highest scored of 214 entries
91
Incubator Cohort
12 admitted
88
Competition Finalists
8 advance, every entrant gets feedback
84
Same four dimensions, every entryIllustrative
One standard
Across every reviewer and every entry
Live research
Real market data with sources attached
Feedback for all
Every entrant, not just the winners
Defensible
An answer for faculty and donors
Where programs use it

From the classroom to the cap table.

The same evaluation engine serves every moment your program judges, teaches, or develops a venture.

Competitions & awards

Judge 200 pitches on one bar.

Open to students, alumni, or the whole community. Every submission gets the same four-part read: market demand, feasibility, differentiation, and competitive risk.

  • Comparable scores across every entry
  • Grounded, source-backed reasoning behind each
  • Rankings you can defend to entrants and donors
Incubators & accelerators

Select cohorts with evidence.

Screen applications consistently, admit on a defensible read, and start every mentor relationship past the basics, because the venture arrives already evaluated.

  • Consistent screening across reviewers
  • Cohort workspaces for the ventures you admit
  • Mentors start at strategy, not discovery
Courses & curriculum

Teach with the real process.

Learners work the same evaluate, research, plan, de-risk flow that real founders and accelerators use, and produce deliverables that export cleanly for grading.

  • A practical instrument for venture courses
  • 13-section plans, market research, risk analysis
  • Exports to Word and PDF for submission
Investor connections

Send investors a scored shortlist.

When your program connects its ventures to angels and VCs, hand over a grounded, comparable read instead of a stack of decks. Your credibility travels with it.

  • Structured evaluations investors can trust
  • Founders share exactly what they choose
  • The program's standard becomes its signature
How it works for a cohort

Four steps from submissions to decisions.

1

Founders submit

Students, alumni, or open-call entrants describe the venture in plain language. A paragraph is enough to start.

2

Launchet evaluates

Every submission is scored across the same four dimensions, grounded in live market research with the sources attached.

3

You decide

Fund, admit, and award from comparable scores and honest risk reads, defensible to any committee.

4

Every founder grows

Each entrant gets strengths, risks, and next steps, and can build the full plan from there. Nobody leaves empty-handed.

Your mission

Your mission is developing entrepreneurs. Launchet is built to serve it.

Most evaluation tools stop at a verdict. Launchet treats the verdict as the starting line: every evaluated venture can grow into a market report, a 13-section plan, a customer list, and a de-risked launch path.

The founders you pass on this year come back stronger next year, and they remember who made them better.

Built on a published methodology

Launchet applies a proprietary methodology, published as The 12 Principles for Success in Launching Your New Business, developed over 28+ years of launching startups and leading product innovation inside Fortune 500 companies.

The dimensions every venture is scored on
The questions each plan section must answer
The risks the analysis is required to surface
One framework, applied identically to every entry. That is what makes a cohort comparable.
Security, privacy & data handling

Built to be trusted.

The ventures entrusted to your program are sensitive by definition. Here is what protects them, stated plainly.

Ideas stay isolated

Every submission lives in its own account, never exposed to other users, and shared only through explicit, revocable links.

Never training data

AI providers are contractually barred from training on submitted content.

Encrypted in transit

All traffic between the browser and our servers is HTTPS/TLS encrypted, end to end.

FERPA & data handling

Institutional deployments include a dedicated security review at onboarding, where we work through your data-handling and FERPA questions with your team.

Class & cohort workspaces

Set up access for a course, a competition, a cohort, or a whole program, with seats, invoicing and volume pricing.

Passwords protected

We never store or see plain-text passwords. Passwords are hashed with bcrypt and sessions use expiring tokens.

FAQ

Questions from program directors.

How do we use Launchet to judge a pitch competition?

Every submission is evaluated against the same four dimensions: market demand, feasibility, differentiation and competitive risk, grounded in live market research with sources attached. A hundred entries become a hundred comparable scores rather than a hundred differently formatted decks judged by feel, so rankings can be defended to entrants, faculty and donors.

Is Launchet only for students?

No. Programs use it for student ventures, alumni ventures, faculty spinouts, and open-call competition entrants. Any venture your program evaluates can be scored on the same standard.

Is Launchet FERPA compliant?

Our institutional review includes a dedicated security session at onboarding, where we work through your data-handling and FERPA questions with your team, and we sign your institution's data protection agreement.

What does each founder actually receive?

A scored read with real strengths, real risks, and the next steps to strengthen the venture. From there they can build a full 13-section business plan, market research, and a go-to-market strategy on the same platform, so the founders you pass on still leave better than they arrived.

Can we run a whole cohort or class on it?

Yes. Institutional plans include class, cohort and program workspaces, seats, priority onboarding, invoicing and volume pricing. See pricing.

What methodology is the evaluation based on?

Launchet applies a proprietary methodology, published as The 12 Principles for Success in Launching Your New Business, developed over 28+ years of launching startups and leading product innovation inside Fortune 500 companies. The same framework governs every evaluation, which is what makes scores comparable across a cohort.

Bring us one real pitch.

The fastest way to see whether this fits your program is to run one actual venture from it through the platform. We will walk you and your team through the results.

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Sam Hijazin, CEO · sam@prodision.com · hello@launchet.ai