MITdesignX Le Rosey presents: PITCH DAY 2026

16 early-stage founders pitch their impact ventures to a live jury at Institut Le Rosey on 27 November. Registration required. On 27 November, our second MITdesignX Le Rosey cohort will take to the stage. Since September, 16 early-stage startups, all united by the same impact-first mindset, have been working through four venture design weekends built around the MITdesignX Playbook, alongside mentors and Rosey student interns. Now every team presents its venture to a jury and a live audience. Practical information 📍 Institut Le Rosey 📆 27 November 2026 ⏰ 9 am to 2 pm 🎟️ Registration required. Spaces are limited. About the programme MITdesignX Le Rosey is a startup accelerator run by MITdesignX and Institut Le Rosey. It offers expert coaching, mentorship and access to world-class facilities, at no cost and with no equity taken. Follow @impact.rosey on Instagram and @Rosey Impact Accelerator on LinkedIn for startup spotlights and a look behind the scenes. Please note that the event will take place in English. Questions In case of any issues, please email us directly at : [email protected] or contact us at +41 21 822 55 00. Meet the startups HEALTH & MED TECH Alsensia wants to make it easier for people who need anxiety and stress-related care to get it. Its VR and biofeedback platform delivers evidence-informed, non-pharmacological therapy that's measurable, personalised, and built to scale. Monarch Technologies wants to raise survival rates for liver cancer patients. Its adaptive nanoparticle platform delivers chemotherapy more precisely to the tumour, aiming to improve outcomes while reducing toxic side effects. Smartibex AI wants radiologists and their teams to spend their time with patients, not fighting outdated software. By automating the administrative load, its platform aims to cut missed safety checks, reduce unnecessary repeat exams, and ease the workload on an already short-staffed profession. TrialProof wants clinical trial data to be as trustworthy as the medicines it helps approve. By automating the tedious work of checking trial records against source documents, it aims to catch data-quality issues earlier, free clinical teams to focus on patient safety and judgment, and make rigorous trials more affordable to run. Dr Simply wants effective skin care to stop requiring an expert's knowledge or a premium budget. Its science-backed range is designed to raise compliance and skin health outcomes for everyday users. Fork-First wants to lower the cost and stress of treating female infertility. Its research-backed, personalised food plans are a complementary, natural approach to medical treatments. WORK TECH Mployify wants to close the employability gap that leaves young people finishing education without the skills employers actually need. Its adaptive platform builds workplace-ready capabilities like communication, resilience, and problem-solving, aiming to reduce youth unemployment and the inequality it drives. Blaze by GRO wants Swiss scale-ups to stop stalling for lack of senior leadership they can't yet afford to hire full-time, and wants the roughly 60% of Swiss women working part-time to have a high-value path back into senior roles. Its curated fractional-executive introductions aim to unlock growth for founders while bringing an established UK/US career model to Switzerland's underused senior female talent. DirectEd Development’s income-share training model gives high-potential candidates a debt-free path into remote tech careers, with knock-on benefits for women and non-urban communities who gain the most from remote work. They want to break the poverty trap that keeps some of the world's most capable young people out of the global tech economy. EDTECH Studyond wants to keep higher education relevant as AI erodes the value of a standalone thesis and the entry-level jobs that used to teach graduates the ropes. Its platform gives every student a genuine industry touchpoint, while giving companies a structured, continuous pipeline into university talent. WYTOPIA wants the hours kids already spend on their phones to build real skills. Free of charge and free of advertising, its games and videos aim to make skill-building accessible. ROBOTICS Reacto wants to break the cycle of frailty that starts when someone over 65 falls. Its low-cost robotic balance-training device brings a therapy proven to cut fall risk by up to 50% out of specialised research centres and into ordinary clinics, aiming to make effective fall prevention accessible at population scale. Aetherlink Systems wants engineers to spend less time buried in raw telemetry and more time building reliable aerospace systems. Its AI diagnostic platform turns communication failures in drones and satellites into clear, actionable explanations, aiming to improve the reliability of autonomous systems as they become part of everyday infrastructure. ECO TECH FrostForge wants cooling to stop being a matter of survival for the more than one billion people at high risk from extreme heat. Its grid-free, solar-powered cooling engine aims to keep classrooms, clinics, and homes safe without adding refrigerant, grid load, or emissions to a warming planet. SOCIAL TECH Garden of Ayden wants to make kindness pay – literally – as a way to counter rising loneliness, social fragmentation, and declining civic trust. Its blockchain-based Currency of Kindness rewards verified acts of compassion and volunteering with redeemable goods and services, aiming to turn everyday generosity into a measurable, incentivised force for stronger communities.