Stacy Chin, PhD

Stacy Chin, Ph.D. is a leading expert in federal grants, SBIR/STTR funding, and government contracting, with over a decade of experience helping startups secure non-dilutive R&D and commercialization funding. She champions AI-driven funding solutions that help innovators accelerate from breakthrough research to market impact.

Stacy also leads KeepYourEquity.co, helping entrepreneurs fund and scale without giving up ownership, and serves as an SBIR/STTR mentor for Techstars, MassChallenge, and C10 Labs, advising founders on federal funding strategy, proposal development, and commercialization planning. As Co-Founder and COO of Scout, an AI-powered commercialization platform, Stacy helps startups win SBIR/STTR grants, federal contracts, and non-dilutive funding faster and more efficiently. Under her leadership, Scout enables founders to write proposals up to 20× faster while improving quality, compliance, and win rates across agencies such as NIH, NSF, DoD, and DOE.