Company Profile

Soliculture
Profile last edited on: 1/17/20      CAGE: 6TWH8      UEI: FL2QTACRYPJ4

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Year Founded
2012
First Award
2012
Latest Award
2019
Program Status
Inactive
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Location Information

54 Old El Pueblo
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
   (831) 234-6056
   info@soliculture.com
   www.soliculture.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 18
County: Santa Cruz

Public Profile

Soliculture, Inc. specializes in combining solar power generation with crop production in greenhouses or open fields. Anchored in technology developed in the Thin-Film Optoelectronics Laboratory of physics professor Sue Carter, the firm offers Lumo, power-generating greenhouse panel that absorbs green light and emits red light, enhancing power production of the solar cells, as well as plant growth. Soliculture began conducting plant trails with its semitransparent greenhouse solar panel to test the solar spectrum conducive to plant growth and the simultaneous generation of electricity. In 2015 the company combined its product with Solaria’s cell technology to ensure the hardware product’s scalability, with its first commercial 10Kw installation in Watsonville later in the year Soliculture has conducted over four years of crop trials under the LUMO light spectrum. These have taken place in the Monterey Bay, Central California, Southern California, and outside of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. Trials have ranged from University studies to commercial production, on a variety of crops including vegetables, flowers, and berries. The majority of the trials indicated no statistical difference in plant growth under LUMO, compared to a control crop. In some cases, positive effects under LUMO have ranged from early crop maturation, disease resistance and longer production time. The Soliculture team recently expanded our manufacturing capacity with a partner in Ontario, Canada, where LUMO panels for all North America projects will be made. Soliculture is partnering with greenhouse manufacturers and suppliers to accelerate penetration of their product in the commercial agricultural indust

Extent of SBIR involvement

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
5-9
Revenue Range
.5M-1M
VC funded?
No
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
1-4

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects

Year Phase Agency Total Amount
2019 1 DOE $199,934
Project Title: Luminescent Enhancement for Combined Solar and Commercial Agriculture
2015 2 NSF $1,070,377
Project Title: A Sustainable Wavelength Selective Energy Producing Greenhouse
0 1 USDA $161,172
Project Title: Semi-rigid Luminescent Hoop House for Combined Solar and Agriculture

Key People / Management

  Glenn Alers -- President, CEO and Founder

  Ingrid Anderson -- Chief Technology Officer

  Melissa Osborn -- Chief Operating Officer

  Nick Y Pai Sr -- Business Analys