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Scout: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)

Scout Climate utilizes artificial intelligence to streamline the grant discovery, writing, and compliance procedures for climate founders and grant writers, resulting in time savings of up to 160 hours per grant. This drives significant automation in the global grant market, which is worth $750 billion annually. The company's innovative business model, which is based on success, and its exclusive database of successful grants ensure that incentives are closely aligned between Scout and companies seeking funding. The team at Scout is led by Tim Barnes, who has extensive experience in climate technology, software engineering, and product strategy, including successful exits from previous ventures, and Stacy Chin, PhD, who has over ten years of experience in establishing a thriving grant writing agency. The company recently introduced its minimal viable product (MVP) and has already helped numerous customers submit successful grants in a fraction of the time and cost.

scoutclimate.com Walnut Creek, United States 1-10 employees
FinTech Funding Platform Software Sustainability B2B
Total raised
$250k
Rounds
1
Latest
Pre-Seed
Aug 2024

Scout has raised $250k across 1 funding round on record, the most recent a Pre-Seed of $250k announced in Aug 2024.

That round is below the $14M median round size for Financial Services companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Scout Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$250k
across 1 round on record
Funding rounds on record
1
Latest funding round
Pre-Seed
$250k in Aug 2024
Employees
1-10
reported band
Headquarters
Walnut Creek, United States

Latest funding round on record: Aug 2024.

Scout Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Pre-Seed
$250k

Scout Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Eric Ingram
Founder

No contact details are on record for this team yet.

Scout Funding Compared to Other Financial Services Startups

Segment
Companies
Median round
29,722
$7.5M
5,801
$600K

Scout's latest round of $250k is below the median round in Financial Services. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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Scout Funding FAQs

What does Scout do?

Scout Climate utilizes artificial intelligence to streamline the grant discovery, writing, and compliance procedures for climate founders and grant writers, resulting in time savings of up to 160 hours per grant. This drives significant automation in the global grant market, which is worth $750 billion annually. The company's innovative business model, which is based on success, and its exclusive database of successful grants ensure that incentives are closely aligned between Scout and companies seeking funding. The team at Scout is led by Tim Barnes, who has extensive experience in climate technology, software engineering, and product strategy, including successful exits from previous ventures, and Stacy Chin, PhD, who has over ten years of experience in establishing a thriving grant writing agency. The company recently introduced its minimal viable product (MVP) and has already helped numerous customers submit successful grants in a fraction of the time and cost.

How much funding has Scout raised?

Scout has raised $250k across 1 round on record. The most recent is a Pre-Seed of $250k announced in Aug 2024.

When did Scout last raise funding?

Scout's most recent funding round on record is a Pre-Seed of $250k, announced in Aug 2024.

Who founded Scout?

FundedIQ lists Eric Ingram (Founder) at Scout.

Where is Scout headquartered?

Scout is based in Walnut Creek, California, United States.

How many employees does Scout have?

Scout is in the 1-10 employee band.

How does Scout's funding compare to other Financial Services startups?

Scout's latest round of $250k is below the $14M median round size for Financial Services companies on FundedIQ across 5,745 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Scout Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Scout is left off this page rather than filled in.

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