Sway Innovation CO.
Berkeley, CA
- UEI
- YJ22N71BJD33
- CAGE
- 9CW25
- Primary NAICS
- Not on record
- SAM.gov registration
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Company facts
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Corporate Entity (Not Tax Exempt)
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 1743 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94703, USA
- Website
- swaythefuture.com
- Founded
- 2020
- Employees
- 11-50
- Estimated annual revenue
- $1M-$10M
- Industry
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- Materials
- Chemicals
- Commodity Chemicals
- SIC code
- 73 Business Services
- Profiles
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Grant awards
Grant subawards
| Prime recipient | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not on record | FX24AS-10621C005 | $207,856 |
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About the company
Sway Innovation CO. Sway Division is a woman-owned small business based in Berkeley, California that develops marine-derived bioplastic materials and compostable flexible packaging solutions as a recipient of federal research grants from the National Science Foundation, with recent work as both a prime grant recipient and a sub-recipient under SBIR Phase programs.
Sway competes exclusively in the federal R&D grant space rather than federal contracts. The vendor is a for-profit manufacturer of goods with woman-owned and woman-owned small business designations. The company's federal footprint is concentrated entirely within the National Science Foundation — the sole customer agency represented in the award portfolio — under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). Sway holds two prime SBIR awards and sits as a sub-recipient on at least one subordinate grant project, representing 67% prime and 33% sub-recipient activity by recent award count.
The vendor's concrete capability is the formulation, scaling, and commercialization of home-compostable thermoplastic films derived from seaweed-based biopolymers for use in flexible plastic packaging. Sway received a $1.146 million NSF cooperative agreement (Phase II SBIR) on July 1, 2026, running through June 30, 2028, to develop affordable, scalable, home-compostable thermoplastic systems using marine-derived bioplastics as a primary ingredient. The work addresses the $289 billion flexible packaging industry by creating tunable pellet and film forms that maintain the strength and barrier properties of conventional plastics while remaining compostable, with projected displacement of over 1.75 million pounds of plastic waste by 2030. An earlier $1.146 million Phase I SBIR project grant awarded by NSF in September 2023 (completed December 2024) focused on ester and polyester modifications of seaweed-derived colloids to improve melt processing. A third award, dated July 6, 2026, places Sway as a sub-recipient on a commercialization project validating and scaling its TPSea Flex seaweed-based resin and film across specialty crop packaging formats (vented polybags and gusseted stand-up pouches) in partnership with five manufacturing partners and targeting $6-per-pound cost reduction and food-contact regulatory compliance. Combined federal dollars obligated total $1.6 million. One award completes within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure in that window.
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Is Sway Innovation CO. registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Sway Innovation CO.'s SAM.gov registration is active through June 11, 2027.
What is Sway Innovation CO.'s most recent federal award?
Sway Innovation CO.'s most recent federal grant award is Sbir phase II: affordable, scalable, and compostable solution for flexible plastic packaging (2528434), from National Science Foundation, on July 1, 2026.
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