About
Chris Scotti is Director of Strategic Partnerships at Texas A&M Innovation, focused on strengthening commercialization and the innovation-to-market ecosystem across the Texas A&M System. He started out as a tech entrepreneur with a successful exit, which continues to shape how he thinks about customer pull, capital, and what teams need to scale. Chris chairs the Texas A&M New Ventures Competition (TNVC) and works closely with researchers, founders, and partners to move ideas from lab to license, startup, or strategic collaboration. In his current role, he brings experience supporting dual-use technologies and helping ventures navigate federal agency funding pathways, as well as technology scouting and building processes that align research and innovation with real-world operational and societal problems.
His priorities include community and ecosystem efforts, as well as regional economic development. He regularly interfaces with entrepreneurial support organizations like Plug and Play, I-Corps, and other incubator and accelerator programs, and helps shape venture studio and founder support efforts. He also serves as a frequent speaker and lecturer on commercialization, entrepreneurship, and innovation strategy. Across all of it, he focuses on building durable state and nationwide relationships across universities, industry, investors, and public-sector partners to expand innovation outcomes.
