MOBIUS PBC
Biodegradable biopolymers made from lignin using reactive extrusion technology, designed to replace single-use plastics
- Sector
- Materials
- Headquarters
- Knoxville, TN
- Total capital
- $2.5M
- Federal grants
- $2.5M
- 6 awards · 2018–2023
- Rank in peer group#64 of 84
- Private capital raised
- None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
- Federal contracts
- None on recordNo federal contract awards found.
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal grantAgriculture · **awards Issued Prior To January 20, 2025, Were Funded Under Previous Administrations And May Not Reflect The Priorities And Policies Of The Current Administration.** With Growing Populations Around The World, Our Global Food Systems Must Grow To Support A Projected 9.7 Billion People By 2050, Increasing Current Food Production By 70%. As If This Problem WASN'T Hard Enough, Growers Must Achieve This Feat Using Practices That Are Productive In The Short-term, Providing Healthy And Nutritious $650K
- Federal grantAgriculture · **awards Issued Prior To January 20, 2025, Were Funded Under Previous Administrations And May Not Reflect The Priorities And Policies Of The Current Administration.** With Growing Populations Around The World, Our Global Food Systems Must Grow To Support A Projected 9.7 Billion People By 2050, Increasing Current Food Production By 70%. As If This Problem WASN'T Hard Enough, Growers Must Achieve This Feat Using Practices That Are Productive In The Short-term, Providing Healthy And Nutritious $650K
- Federal grantNSF · Phase II · SBIR Phase II: Scale Up and Commercialization of Lignin-Based Biodegradable and Compostable Plastics for Horticultural and Agricultural Applications$750K
- Federal grantAgriculture · Switchable Biodegradation: Development Of An Enzyme-accelerated Biodegradation System For Lignin-polymer Alloys$107K
- Federal grantAgriculture · Improving Sustainability And Efficiency In Horticulture With Degradable Lignin-polymer Containers$107K
- Federal grantNSF · Phase I · SBIR Phase I: Development of lignin-based biodegradable plastic alloys via solvent free reactive extrusion$225K
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Standing among 84 peers
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Checked: USPTO inventors; federal award principal investigators; SEC Form D related persons · Oct 23, 2026
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Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026
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Regulatory activity · Materials
- Eliminating Regulations Establishing Fellowships in Laboratory Standardization and Testing for Foreign CitizensNational Institute of Standards and Technology
- Eliminating Obsolete Marking Requirements for Toy, Look-Alike, and Imitation FirearmsNational Institute of Standards and Technology
- Eliminating Obsolete Regulations Related to the Advanced Technology Program and the Technology Innovation ProgramNational Institute of Standards and Technology
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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