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| 19.08.2026 | Finnish Govt-Backed Project Creates New Way to Make Large Amounts of Mycelium Leather | 4 Mins Read Researchers from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have developed a pulp-based approach to growing mycelium leather, enabling large-scale production of the biomaterial.
In June, Italian luxury fashion house Bottega Ve... |
| 10.08.2026 | Korean County Debuts Plant-Based Leather Made From Discarded Melons | 3 Mins Read South Korea’s Chilgok County has created a plant-based leather alternative from discarded melon peels, with the aim of boosting farm incomes and the local economy alike.
As leather’s true climate impact speeds up efforts to comm... |
| 28.07.2026 | Leather’s Emissions 70% Higher Than Previously Thought, Dwarfing Vegan Alternatives | 5 Mins Read The true climate impact of cow-derived leather is 70% higher than previously estimated, and more than 12 times that of vegan alternatives (including plastic-derived materials).
Leather is notorious for its environmental impact, ... |
| 30.01.2026 | MycoWorks Begins a Bold New Chapter in the Future of Materials | MycoWorks has been acquired by DFX Corp, marking a transformative new chapter focused on strategic restructuring, accelerated growth, and scaling Fine Mycelium™ as a leading sustainable materials technology for global brands and innovators.... |
| 22.12.2025 | Empowering Women in Agrifood 2025: Interview with Nadica Desanova Co-founder of MIMIC TECH | Editor’s Note: This post was created in collaboration with and with financial support from EIT Food.
On 20 November 2025 concluded the six-month Empowering Women in Agrifood (EWA) programme concluded with Demo Day in North Macedonia. The ev... |
| 17.09.2024 | Vegan Bio-Based Leathers to Grow by 37.4% Annually Over the Next Decade | The push for sustainable alternatives to animal and plastic leathers has led to a burgeoning market of vegan bio-based leathers. According to a 10-year market forecast by IDTechEx, the vegan bio-based leather industry production capacity wi... |
| 01.08.2024 | MycoWorks and GM Unveil Cadillac EV SOLLEI, the First Car with Mycelium Leather Interior | Biomaterials innovator MycoWorks and its previous investor, General Motors, partnered to co-develop mycelium materials tailored for car interiors in 2022.
Two years later, the companies introduced what they claim to be the first automobile ... |
| 31.07.2024 | Cadillac Releases Sollei Concept EV with Interiors Featuring MycoWorks’ Mycelium Biomaterials | 3 Mins Read General Motors has unveiled a new concept EV under its Cadillac division, which features biomaterials made from MycoWorks’ mycelium.
We’ve heard a lot of comparisons between electric vehicles (EVs) and alternative proteins, but ... |
| 22.07.2024 | Cadillac unveils concept convertible EV featuring mycelium-based décor from MycoWorks | [Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent co AgFunder is an investor in MycoWorks.]
General Motors has unveiled a concept car—the ‘SOLLEI’ convertible electric vehicle—featuring MycoWorks’ ‘Fine Mycelium’ bio-based materials in the interior.
The lu... |
| 03.04.2024 | Global Bio-based Leather Market Report 2024, Featuring Ananas Anam, Bioleather, Bolt Threads, Desserto, Hzcork, Modern Meadow, Mycoworks, Natural Fiber Welding, Oleago and Vegea | DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The “Global Bio-based Leather Market” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.
The Global Bio-based Leather Market is expected to grow from USD 668.6 million in 2023 to USD 902.4 million by the end ... |
| 02.04.2024 | Open Fung Initiative Launches to Fuel Fungi Innovation with Collaborative Knowledge | Fungi and fungal technologies show great potential for creating sustainable solutions in various fields, including food, materials such as leather, and medicine. However, the foundational scientific knowledge and tools required for these ap... |
| 14.03.2024 | Report: Could Mycelium Leather Transform the Leather Market? | IDTechEx analyses the potential of mycelium as an innovative leather alternative in a new report. According to the report, recent developments in the industry mark the beginning of major production growth, though companies in the industry a... |
| 06.03.2024 | Global Mushroom Packaging Market is Expected to reach US$ 94.3 Million by 2034 | Future Market Insights Inc. | - |
| 26.01.2024 | Meet the founder: Modern Synthesis’ Jen Keane on biomaterials, bacteria, and designer bags… | [Disclosure: AgFunder—the parent company of AgFunderNews—is an investor in Modern Synthesis]
Designer bags… made by bacteria?
Founded by ex-Adidas designer Jen Keane (CEO) and synthetic biologist Dr. Ben Reeve (CTO), London-based Modern Syn... |
| 21.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: MycoWorks opens mycelium plant, Flagship et al pump $250m into Indigo Ag, Pure Harvest bags $150m | After a pretty dry spell, agrifood investors were throwing around the big bucks this week, with the launch of two sizeable funds ($384m from Astanor Ventures and $312m from Humble Growth), while Flagship led a $250m round into Indigo Ag and... |
| 20.09.2023 | Brief: Modern Synthesis and GANNI unveil ‘Bou Bag’ made by bacteria for London Design Festival | [Disclosure: AgFunder—the parent company of AgFunderNews—is an investor in Modern Synthesis]
Biomaterials startup Modern Synthesis and Danish fashion brand GANNI have teamed up to create GANNI’s signature ‘Bou Bag’ using a leather-alternati... |
| 07.08.2023 | MycoWorks Unveils World’s First Commercial Mycelium Facility for Luxury Animal-Free Leather | Biomaterials innovator MycoWorks announces it will open the world’s-first commercial-scale mycelium production plant to produce luxury animal-free leather on the 20th of September, 2023.
Located in South Carolina, the 136,000-square-foot fa... |
| 12.04.2023 | Data snapshot: Almost half of all AgriFoodTech VC investment in the US goes to California startups | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 09.01.2023 | From Art To Bioengineering: How MycoWorks’ Creative Heritage Guides Its Growth | It looks like a piece of fine leather. You pick it up and run your fingers over its glossy and pebbled surface. You bend it back and forth. You gently rub it between your thumb and forefinger. Then you lift it to your nose and inhale. It sm... |
| 24.10.2022 | Brief: GM’s deal with MycoWorks brings alt-leather a step closer to mass production | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in MycoWorks. Automaker General Motors’ has become an investor in alt-leather startup MycoWorks through its GM Ventures investment arm. The two companies also have a long-term agree... |
| 20.10.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: new investments in alternative fat, Kroger buying Albertsons, Beyond Meat cuts 200 jobs | This week saw two new investments in startups making alternative fat products: Australia’s Nourish Ingredients and UK-based Hoxton Farms. Kroger announced plans to buy fellow grocery giant Albertsons and precision spraying startup Smart Ass... |
| 19.10.2022 | MycoWorks Receives Investment from GM Ventures | MycoWorks, a San Francisco, CA-based biotechnology company, received an investment from GM Ventures, the investment arm of General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM).
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The company intends to use the funds to adva... |
| 12.09.2022 | Conscious Fashion Campaign Highlights Female Founders on Digital Billboard Campaign during New York Fashion Week | Initiative aims to amplify the visibility and increase media representation of women entrepreneurs leading the fashion sector towards a responsible future.
The Conscious Fashion Campaign, an initiative of the Fashion Impact Fund in collabor... |
| 17.08.2022 | Data snapshot: Demand for sustainable fashion & packaging drives investment in biomaterials startups | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts about new research re... |
| 15.08.2022 | Mycel’s mushroom-based biomaterials sprout $10M in funding | Mycel, a South Korean startup making fungal-based biomaterials that can replace leather and meat, said it has raised $10 million (13 billion WON) in a pre-Series A round of funding.
Co-founder and CEO of Mycel Sungjin Sah told TechCrunch th... |
| 22.07.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: String Bio raises $20m, SVG heads south with $50m agtech fund | Indian biotech company String Bio landed Series B funding this week and announced plans to turn methane into alternative protein. California’s SVG Ventures announced a new fund specifically supporting the ag sectors in Australia and New Zea... |
| 19.07.2022 | Fun guys can keep the sun off with MycoWorks’ new mycelium-based hats | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in MycoWorks.
MycoWorks, a US startup developing alternative biomaterials based on mycelium, has launched a line of hats made from its Reishi alt-leather product in partnership with... |
| 19.07.2022 | MycoWorks Commercializes “World’s First” Plastic-Free Mycelium Alt Leather with Hatmaker Nick Fouquet | Biomaterials innovator MycoWorks has announced the commercial launch of the first fashion items made with its flagship mycelium material, Reishi. The Reishi Collection by luxury hatmaker Nick Fouquet includes the Reishi Boletus, Coprinus, a... |
| 20.06.2022 | Fungus fashion: Mushrooms used as an alternative to animal leather | Out west, where cattle ranches have long held sway, cowhide leather may be losing its luster.
"You can't grow a cow to spec," said MycoWorks co-founder Sophia Wang. "Cows just do what they do. So, that is what's remarkable ab... |
| 01.06.2022 | BREAKING: Modern Synthesis raises $4.1m from AgFunder, others to grow textiles from microbes | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Modern Synthesis.
UK-based biomaterials startup Modern Synthesis has raised $4.1 million in seed funding to support its microbial textile platform that aims to make the fashion i... |
| 13.04.2022 | Vegan R.M. Williams one step closer to reality after Andrew Forrest’s firm invests $26.8 million in plant-based textiles | Source: AAP Image / Lukas Coch
Vegan R.M. Williams boots are suddenly a step closer to reality, after the brand’s parent company Tattarang deployed a $26.8 million Series B investment in plant-based textile developer Natural Fiber Welding.
... |
| 30.03.2022 | MycoTechnology nets $85m Series E funding from Omani sovereign fund, multiple ag & food giants | MycoTechnology, an Aurora, Colorado-based startup using fermentation technology and mushroom mycelia to create novel food products, has closed an $85 million round of funding.
The Series E round was led by an affiliate of Omani sovereign we... |
| 22.03.2022 | AgFunder captures increasing, urgent investor demand for agrifoodtech with $60m Fund IV first close | Disclosure: AgFunder is AFN’s parent company.
AgFunder, one of the world’s most active investors in foodtech and agtech startups, has increased its assets under management to $160 million – 10x in two years – with the first close of its fou... |
| 17.01.2022 | Mushroom Leather Startup MycoWorks Lands $125 Million In Latest Funding Round | 3 Mins Read
Turning mushrooms into leather is proving to be big business for MycoWorks, the Bay Area startup that has produced vegan leather for a number of brands including luxury French fashion house Hermès. Now, MycoWorks has raised $125... |
| 14.01.2022 | MycoWorks Raises $125M in Series C Financing | MycoWorks, a San Francisco, CA-based biomaterials company, raised $125M in Series C funding.
The round was led by Prime Movers Lab, with participation from SK Networks and Mirabaud Lifestyle Impact & Innovation Fund.
The company intends... |
| 13.01.2022 | Borders bookstore founder wants to save the home delivery market with robots | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Louis Borders, the founder of the Borders bookstore chain, has wanted to deliver groceries to you... |
| 13.01.2022 | MycoWorks, making leather from fungi, closes $125M to scale production | MycoWorks, a company making a fungal-based biomaterial that can replace leather, brought in a fresh round of funding — $125 million in Series C financing — to fund a production plant for scaling the manufacture of its flagship product Reish... |
| 13.01.2022 | MycoWorks Raises $125M in Series C to Mass Produce Mushroom Leather | MycoWorks, a San Francisco-based biomaterials company, announces the startup has raised $125 million to open a full-scale mushroom leather production plant.
MycoWorks’ Fine Mycelium is a proprietary biotechnology platform that transforms my... |
| 13.01.2022 | Brief: MycoWorks banks $125m Series C funding to build alt-leather factory | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in MycoWorks.
MycoWorks has raised $125 million in funding as it seeks to scale up production of its animal-free leather analog, Reishi.
The Series C round was led by Prime Movers L... |
| 13.01.2022 | Borders bookstore founder wants to save the home delivery market with robots | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Louis Borders, the founder of the Borders bookstore chain, has wanted to deliver groceries to you... |
| 06.12.2021 | Cellular agriculture & emerging markets: Just because we can, does it mean we should? | Saron Berhane is an agrifoodtech entrepreneur based in Sydney, Australia.
The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of AFN.
Alt-protein is taking the food world by storm. Plant-ba... |
| 18.10.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Bucha Bio banks funding for its next-gen bacterial biomaterials | US biomaterials company Bucha Bio has raised $550,000 in funding to scale up production of its bio-textile product called Mirai.
Investors included New Climate Ventures, Beni Venture Capital, Lifely VC, QKZ Design, and MicroVentures, alongs... |
| 26.08.2021 | AgFunder raises $21m for New Carnivore alt-protein fund from ADM, Alexandria & others | Disclosure: AgFunder is AFN’s parent company.
Agrifoodtech VC AgFunder has announced the final close of New Carnivore, its alternative protein fund, on $21 million.
The fund was oversubscribed, surpassing its hard cap.
ADM Ventures, the VC ... |
| 28.04.2021 | Biomaterials Company MycoWorks Expands Fine Mycelium™ Product Development and R&D | |
| 14.04.2021 | I can’t believe it’s not meat! Mycelium meat replacement company aims for summer launch of first products | Meati, a company turning mycelium (the structural fibers of fungi) into healthier meat replacements for consumers, is prepping for a big summer rollout.
Co-founder Tyler Huggins expects to have the first samples of its whole-cut steak and c... |
| 30.03.2021 | Ecovative sees a fungal future for fashion, food and foam packaging and has a fresh $60M to make it | Eben Bayer has spent the better part of 14 years proving out the power of the humble mushroom as the world’s truly functional food.
As the chief executive and founder of Ecovative Design, Bayer has made replacements for foam packaging, lamp... |
| 23.03.2021 | How Ballet Inspired This Entrepreneur to Reinvent Her Career | March 23, 2021 3 min read
This story appears in the March 2021 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
I always assumed I’d work in academia, but then I took a ballet course in my 30s. I did it on a whim while getting my Ph.D. in English, thinki... |
| 16.03.2021 | High Fashion House Hermès Collaborates With MycoWorks For Mushroom-Based Version of the Victoria Bag | French high fashion brand Hermès may be looking forward towards sustainable alternatives to leather as it reveals a new bag made using a mushroom-based vegan leather alternative. The brand has collaborated with California startup MycoWorks,... |
| 22.01.2021 | The State Of Fashion Report—Brands Prioritizing Profits Over Ethical Supply Chains | (L-R) Lauren Sanchez, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Anna Wintour attend the Tom Ford AW20 Show at Milk ... [+] Studios, February 2020Getty Images |
| 19.11.2020 | Natalie Portman and John Legend Participate in $45M Round For MycoWorks | San Francisco-based MycoWorks, manufacturer of vegan leather alternatives from mycelium mushroom, announces the closing of a $45 million Series B financing round with participants including celebrities Natalie Portman and John Legend, and t... |
| 19.11.2020 | MycoWorks Closes US$45M In Star-Studded Series B To Scale-Up Animal-Free Reishi Leather For Consumer Launch | 3 1
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Alternative mycelium-based material firm MycoWorks has announced the completion of a US$45 million Series B funding round, which will go towards the scale-up of its Reishi animal-free leather material. The round saw... |
| 19.11.2020 | MycoWorks Secures $45M in Series B Financing | MycoWorks, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of a biotech platform for the fashion and luxury industries, closed a $45m Series B financing.
The round was led by WTT Investment Ltd. and DCVC Bio, with major participation from new investors... |
| 17.11.2020 | John Legend and Natalie Portman want you to try wearing fungus instead of leather | Natalie Portman and John Legend are joining a group of venture capitalists and unnamed fashion brands backing MycoWorks, a company that just raised $45 million to commercialize its technology that makes a fungal-based biomaterial that can r... |
| 17.11.2020 | MycoWorks Raises $45M in Series B Financing | |
| 17.11.2020 | MycoWorks banks $45m Series B funding; DCVC, AgFunder & celebs invest | MycoWorks, which produces an animal-free leather alternative, has raised $45 million in a Series B round co-led by Taiwan’s WTT Investment and California’s DCVC Bio.
New investors included Valor Equity Partners, Humboldt Fund, and Gruss &am... |
| 17.11.2020 | Daily funding roundup - November 17th, 2020 | Upfront Healthcare picksup $11.5M; Levels raised $12M; Trust & Will landed $15M; OXIO secured $12M
A-Frame: A-Frame is a Venice, Ca.-based maker of personal care brands supported by celebrities. A-Frame has raised $2 million in a new ro... |
| 27.02.2020 | Why we invested in MycoWorks | Rob Leclerc is a founding partner at AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company.
MycoWorks, which produces a lab-grown leather from mycelium (the root structure of mushroom) announced its $17 million Series A earlier this week, after its unvei... |
| 27.02.2020 | Why we invested in MycoWorks | Editors note: Rob Leclerc is a founding partner at AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company.
MycoWorks, which produces a lab-grown leather from mycelium (the root structure of mushroom) announced its $17 million Series A earlier this week, a... |
| 26.02.2020 | MycoWorks Raises $17M to Meet Demand for Luxury Leather Products Made From Reishi Mushroom | MycoWorks, creator of a sustainable, fine mycelium leather alternative called Reishi, today announces $17 million in Series A financing for its mycelium based fabrics for the luxury fashion market. The round was led by DCVC Bio, with partic... |
| 25.02.2020 | MycoWorks Raises $17M in Series A Funding | Courtesy of Made with Reishi™ by MycoWorks
MycoWorks, creator of a fine mycelium leather, raised $17m in Series A financing.
The round was led by DCVC Bio, with major participation from Novo Holdings and 8VC, as well as Future Tech Labs, Ag... |
| 09.08.2018 | AgFunder Invests in Foodtech Startup Chinova Bioworks’ $2m Round With DSM, Rhapsody | Chinova Bioworks, a food tech startup with a novel food preservative, has raised a $2 million seed round from AgFunder, DSM Venturing, the venture arm of the global nutrition and health company, Rhapsody Venture Partners, an early-stage sci... |
| 25.08.2017 | The Future of Fashion: The Eco Fabrics You Will Be Wearing In 10 Years | 75 3
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When actress Emma Watson launched her Instagram account, The Press Tour, for the sole purpose of highlighting ethical, sustainable fashion while promoting Beauty and the Beast, it was wonderful seeing someone with... |
| 12.07.2016 | Watch the Indiebio Demo Day here | TechCrunch is pleased to bring you Indiebio’s Demo Day this Thursday, July 14th from San Francisco.
Backed by SOSV, Indiebio is the largest life sciences accelerator to date. Indiebio provides each startup in the accelerator with $250,000, ... |
| - | Стартап MycoWorks привлёк $125 млн на строительство завода по производству «кожи» из грибов Статьи редакции | Материал можно использовать для одежды и аксессуаров, первую сумку сделал Hermès.
В MycoWorks вложились инвестиционные компании Prime Movers Lab, SK Capital Partners и другие. В раунде участвовали действующие инвесторы, пишет TechCrunch.
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