NSF Awards Small Business Grant To LATERAL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LATERAL Granted $275,000 To Advance Regenerative Agriculture Smart Edge Platform
PORTLAND, OREGON, May 16, 2023 – LATERAL.systems LLC (LATERAL), an emerging AgTech Platform Company, announced that they have received notification from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 grant to help advance their company’s research efforts to develop an “on-premise” smart edge platform targeting indoor growing environments for rural and urban farms.
LATERAL’s motivation is to provide smart regenerative agriculture technologies as the world’s relationship with food is changing in response to pressures related to health, climate, energy, and scarcity of fresh water.
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ABOUT LATERAL
Founded in 2021, LATERAL.systems LLC is a smart AgTech platform company advancing the social good of growing sustainable foods with emerging technologies targeting Novel Indoor Agricultural Growing Farming Systems. Our mission is to empower farmers with data insights to advance regenerative production of food.
For more information about LATERAL please contact:
LATERAL.systems LLC
PO Box 2367
Lake Grove, OR 97035