Female-Founded Climate-Tech Mykor Lands €4.6M to Scale Mycelium Insulation Panels

Female-founded climate-tech Mykor lands €4.6M to scale mycelium insulation panels

Bristol-and-Lisbon climate-tech firm Mykor has raised €4.6M to scale MykoFoam, a carbon-negative mycelium insulation panel grown from industrial residues at its Portuguese pilot plant.

Mykor secures £4m to turn waste into construction products

Mykor, a biotechnology company transforming industrial and agricultural waste into scalable low-carbon construction products, has secured £4 million in funding. The round was led by Clean Growth Fund, with participation from the British Business Bank’s South Investment Fund via The FSE Group, Green Angel Ventures, and support from Innovate UK’s investor partnership programme.  The latest raise brings total funding secured by the Bristol company …

Company Growing Low Carbon Products from Waste Gets £4m Backing

Read the latest magazine Industry News Insulation Sustainability Company Growing Low Carbon Products from Waste Gets £4m Backing 27 May 2026 Valentina Dipietro, COO (left) and Olivia Page, CEO (right) Mykor, a biotechnology company transforming industrial and agricultural waste into scalable low-carbon construction products, has secured £4 million in funding to accelerate the scale-up of its industrial biofabrication technologies. The lates…

Sustainable construction tech group scores £4m boost

Mykor, a biotech firm turning industrial and agricultural waste into low-carbon construction products has raised £4m in new funding. The Bristol-based firm said it will use the new funds to accelerate the scaling up of its industrial biofabrication technologies. Its technology works by combining engineered mycelium strains, green chemistry additives and closed-loop automated manufacturing processes to produce products such as prefab walls and in…

A female-founded Bristol startup is transforming the future of construction from fungi and just raised £4M to scale it

Bristol-based Mykor has raised £4M led by Clean Growth Fund and The FSE Group to scale a fungi-grown structural insulation panel that delivers 60% less embodied carbon than conventional alternatives, bringing total funding to £7.5M. The female-founded startup has already secured £337M in commercial agreements with UK and European contractors, and is establishing a joint-venture production facility in Belgium ahead of commercial launch. Buildings…

Bristol’s female-founded Mykor raises €4.6 million to grow low-carbon construction materials from waste

Mykor, a Bristol-based female-founded BioTech startup developing scalable low-carbon construction systems from industrial and agricultural waste, has secured €4.6 million (£4 million) in funding to accelerate the scale-up of its industrial biofabrication technologies. The round was led by Clean Growth Fund, with participation from the British Business Bank’s South West Investment Fund via The FSE Group, Green Angel Ventures, and support from Inn…