Anu awarded $500K NSF SBIR grant to advance compostable Plug-and-Grow Seed Pod

Compostable Seed Pod Startup Wins $500,000 NSF Grant to Scale Automated

Anu, an indoor farming and consumable seed pod supply company based in Evansville, Indiana, has been awarded a $500,000 Phase IIB Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation. The funding will be directed toward multi-cavity tooling for the company's patented, compostable Plug-and-Grow Seed Pods, a technology designed to remove the skilled labor traditionally required for controlled-environment agriculture. The a…

Anu awarded $500K NSF SBIR grant to advance compostable Plug-and-Grow Seed Pod

Anu™, a modular indoor farm and consumable seed pod supply company, has received a $500,000 Phase IIB Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Purdue University alumni Scott Massey and Ivan Ball met while developing NASA-funded, controlled-environment…