MycoWorks

MycoWorks has been awarded the 2024 Bay Area Innovation Award! Our co-founder Sophia Wang speaks with Sara B. at San Francisco Business Times about our progress in scaling the Fine Mycelium™ platform to address very large markets demanding a new category of materials. Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/gW5tRp73

Vogue Italia spotlights our co-founder Sophia Wang, and her unique perspective as an artist and writer whose creative practice guides her work as a biotech entrepreneur: “Poetry is in a way the most radical use of language because it finds new forms and new meanings. Our success probably had a lot to do with that kind of storytelling, because we were able to inspire a lot of researchers and designers with the wonder and magic of mycelium.” See the full feature in Vogue Italia: https://lnkd.in/g7xd3ABz

I had a great time on Ben Fanning 's Lead the Team podcast discussing MycoWorks and my journey. I particularly enjoyed highlighting my incredible team in Union accomplishing our mission at MycoWorks of growing the future of materials. I'm lucky to work at a company with people with tremendous courage. We have an entire company of people who buck norms and are passionate about our mission. Our whole company strives to empower individual voices and inspire the courage to bring new ideas forward. Before MycoWorks, I had a long career in manufacturing, going from factory floor to C-suite. Most impactful to my career path were the lessons I learned from my peers and colleagues in breakrooms and picnic tables in those early days: People are problem solvers: everyone comes to work everyday trying to solve problems. Everyone at every level has key pieces to the puzzle to drive an efficient and successful corporation. An engaged workforce is the key to success: There are always barriers in a system, but an engaged workforce that is courageous to speak up and listened to when doing so can drive tremendous change. Leaders need to empower individual voices: To make a system run better, faster and stronger it's important to empower the voices on the manufacturing line doing the work s they can point out flaws and offer solutions from their point of view. Listen to my profile below and follow MycoWorks to catch the big things we have upcoming.

“Imagine one day being able to grow material to the exact size of a steering wheel or dashboard, reducing offcuts and speeding up supply chains. Fine Mycelium™ materials are a new category of their own. “New biomaterials are often boxed into a material category that already exists — for us this is leather. But designers who create products around Fine Mycelium’s unique properties instead of leather’s unlock the creativity of our material much quicker.” MycoWorks Creative Director Xavier Gallego speaks with designboom on the introduction of Cadillac SOLLEI, the first automobile to incorporate a mycelium bio-based material developed by MycoWorks in collaboration with General Motors: https://lnkd.in/es7GWPcC

At the unveiling of Cadillac's SOLLEI concept vehicle, the first automobile to incorporate a mycelium bio-based material developed in collaboration with General Motors. The forward-looking concept convertible was unveiled at Cadillac House at Vanderbilt, the state-of-the-art facility at GM’s Global Technical Center campus in Warren, Michigan. Used in the charging mats on the console and the door map pockets, the Fine Mycelium™ material reflects Cadillac’s mission to pioneer renewable automotive resources.

“An unprecedented level of control over a natural material” – CEO Matt Scullin speaks with AgFunder News about the custom Fine Mycelium™ material used in Cadillac SOLLEI: • “The automotive-grade material is grown, re-tanned, and finished differently, rendering a distinct material from MycoWorks’ flagship biomaterial, Reishi.” • “Designers are very interested in Fine Mycelium’s capacity to deliver new levels of control over natural materials. Our platform provides numerous avenues for design interventions during the growth and finishing process. This enables MycoWorks to provide products and services to a number of industries across numerous applications including fashion, furniture, footwear and automotive design.”

Big things have small beginnings! We started working on this many years ago. It feels really great to now share with the world. BEEP BEEEEEEP!!!

Italy's Il Sole 24 Ore speaks with MycoWorks co-founder Sophia Wang & CEO Matt Scullin on scaling Fine Mycelium™ production for fashion and beyond: "'We have developed an alternative to leather that also responds to the needs of the industry given that there are more and more people in the world who do not eat meat' - Scullin explains - 'and I believe that in the coming years, also being able to produce more in terms of volume, the price will go down. Our work serves a growing demand from consumers and our task is to make this production as scalable as possible.' "Sophia Wang explains the genesis of MycoWorks: 'Mycelium is an extremely versatile material that can be used in the most diverse sectors, from art to design. Starting from a creative point of view, rather than an entrepreneurial one, allowed us to have a different look at the development of the company' – which to date, has filed 75 patents and has a staff of 160 people in the USA, France and Spain."

This is so cool! Well done to the GM Ventures crew for making this one happen. There are so many opportunities to use alternative (and cutting edge) materials inside of a vehicle. This is the culmination of 3 "generations" of GM Ventures Partners working in this space. What started with Alisyn Malek and some early partnerships was picked up by me into a few deals that almost happened and now has been brought over the line by the exceptional current team at GM Ventures. Congratulations to Stefon Crawford, Anirvan Coomer and the whole team - super exciting.

It is an exciting day for us at MycoWorks with the announcement of this new development with longtime partner General Motors. Together we are changing the way things are done. #finemycelium #sustainablecar