
Scout is a platform that combines expert grant writers with AI to help socially responsible companies win grant funding. The service automates grant matching, writing, and submission processes, saving significant time and cost. Scout supports various US federal agencies including SBIRs, FOAs, and RFPs, as well as select non-profit and state-level opportunities. They offer services such as automated AI-enabled grant matching, AI-powered draft creation for biosketches, citations, and letters of support, and expert grant writing consultation. The company aims to amplify impact by helping founders unlock capital for their ventures. Scout's team consists of experienced grant professionals and software engineers. They have secured over $5 million in non-dilutive capital for cohort participants.

Scout is a platform that combines expert grant writers with AI to help socially responsible companies win grant funding. The service automates grant matching, writing, and submission processes, saving significant time and cost. Scout supports various US federal agencies including SBIRs, FOAs, and RFPs, as well as select non-profit and state-level opportunities. They offer services such as automated AI-enabled grant matching, AI-powered draft creation for biosketches, citations, and letters of support, and expert grant writing consultation. The company aims to amplify impact by helping founders unlock capital for their ventures. Scout's team consists of experienced grant professionals and software engineers. They have secured over $5 million in non-dilutive capital for cohort participants.
What they do: AI-enabled grant discovery and proposal-writing platform that combines AI with expert grant writers to help organizations find, draft, and submit non-dilutive funding opportunities.
Market focus: Non-dilutive funding across climate, biotech, healthcare, defense, AI, hardtech, and government SBIR/FOA/RFP opportunities.
Customers & scale: Public site claims 400+ customers and a library of 10,000+ active grants and templates.
Founders: Co-founders Stacy Chin and Tim Barnes.
Funding signal: Reported seed/pre-seed raise (~$250k) with investors listed as Forum Ventures and Lorimer Ventures; platform also reports $2.4M total funding and $5M secured for cohort participants.
Time-consuming, resource-intensive process of finding and preparing competitive non-dilutive grant applications.
Grant discovery and proposal-writing platform; non-dilutive funding for climate and deep-tech startups
$250,000
Reported on Dealroom/Crunchbase as an early seed-style round.
“Investors listed include Forum Ventures and Lorimer Ventures.”