Stacy L ChinFounder, KeepYourEquity · I get the government to write you checks

This Might Be the Best Funding Hack for Founders

1 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Stacy L. Chin highlights the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program—dubbed America’s Seed Fund—as a massive source of non‑dilutive capital for early‑stage, high‑risk, innovative startups. She emphasizes that the government allocates billions of dollars annually through SBIR, offering up to $2 million per project without requiring founders to surrender equity, making it an attractive alternative to venture capital that often deems such ideas too risky or premature.

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Please tell me that you are aware that the US government gives away billions of dollars every year to startups. Well, if you had never heard of it, it's called the SBIR program, otherwise known as America's Seed Fund, and it's designed specifically for high-risk innovative projects, kind of like what you're developing and the kind that VCs say is way too risky or way too early. And that's why the SBIR program is literally wild, because you can get up to $2 million of non-dilutive funding without giving away a single percentage of your equity.