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| 10.10.2024 | Paris-based baCta secures €3.3 million to revolutionize natural rubber production | baCta, a startup making biosynthetic carbon-negative natural rubber produced using engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks, has successfully raised €3.3 millions in pre-seed funding. The round was led by OVNI Capital, and with pa... |
| 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... |
| 16.08.2024 | Nike's New Chapter: Ackman's Influence and the Quest for Recovery | Nike Inc. is at a crossroads. The sportswear giant, once a titan in the industry, is grappling with a storm of challenges. The company has seen its stock tumble nearly 30% this year. Competition is fierce, and strategic missteps have left i... |
| 14.08.2024 | Bolt Threads Completes Merger, Begins Trading on Nasdaq Under “BSLK” | Bolt Threads, Inc., a company specializing in sustainable biomaterials, has announced the completion of its business combination with Golden Arrow Merger Corp, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
The merger, which was approved by ... |
| 16.05.2024 | ‘People don’t realize how much fashion needs new materials’ but biomaterials investors can be hard to find, say experts | Fashion brands are desperately seeking new, sustainable materials as they come under increasing pressure to produce garments with improved environmental credentials, experts told the audiences of last week’s SynBioBeta conference in San Jos... |
| 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 ... |
| 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... |
| 28.02.2024 | Data snapshot: Tracking a decade of growth in Bioenergy & Biomaterials, the top-funded agrifoodtech category of 2023 | Data Snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 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... |
| 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... |
| 05.09.2023 | Looking for a climate job? Consider biotech | More and more people, especially early career workers, want jobs fighting climate change. But when we think about climate work, we tend to imagine only a small number of activities, like integrating renewables into the grid or planning citi... |
| 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.
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| 28.07.2022 | How to close biopharma’s data science and engineering skills gap | In biopharma research and development, laboratory data now exist in petabytes. Today’s fastest liquid-handling robots can dispense samples into 384 wells in a matter of seconds. Vaccines, which have traditionally been grown in eggs or cell ... |
| 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... |
| 26.05.2022 | New Zealand’s Humble Bee Bio is using bees to create bioplastics | Humble Bee Bio is on a mission to create a biodegradable alternative to plastics by synthesizing the biology of bees. While the New Zealand-based company is still at an early stage — it’s about halfway through its proof of concept — if Humb... |
| 10.05.2022 | Pow.bio’s continuous fermentation technology might be the key to scaling up food production for a growing population | Fermentation, the process of breaking down sugars using the enzymes of microorganisms, is almost as old as civilization itself. The use of microbial cultures to preserve and improve the nutritional value of foods and produce alcoholic bever... |
| 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... |
| 08.12.2021 | Bolt Threads: “Working to Design More Sustainable Versions of the Materials People Already Know and Love” | Bolt Threads shot to fame in the fashion world with its innovative alt leather product Mylo, the “unleather” gloriously made from mycelium fungal structures, and recently received a prestigious vegan certification.
“We at Bolt Threads are p... |
| 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... |
| 21.10.2021 | World Leading Leather Tannery’s Partnership With Bolt Threads Marks Its First Foray Into Alt Leather in 100 Years | Bolt Threads, which produces the famous Mylo mushroom leather, is set to upscale with the help of conventional tannery Heller-Leder, an industry leader that works with notable companies such as Porsche and furniture company Rolf Bennz. The ... |
| 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... |
| 08.10.2021 | Stella McCartney Debuts Bolt Threads Mushroom Leather Bag at Paris Fashion Week | UK fashion house Stella McCartney has showcased a handbag made with vegan mushroom leather on the runway at Paris Fashion Week. Made by Bolt Threads, the leather is known as Mylo and is made from mycelium, the roots of mushrooms.
The new ba... |
| 03.09.2021 | Bolt Threads’ Mushroom “UnLeather” Mylo Awarded Prestigious Vegan Certification | Eurofins | Chem-MAP announces that Bolt Threads‘ innovative plant-based material Mylo Unleather has been verified as a vegan material following the successful completion of the Eurofins Vegan Verification Programme, which involves the analy... |
| 09.08.2021 | Bolt Threads Partners With Ginkgo Bioworks to Improve Efficiency and Sustainability of Its Bioengineered Silk | US biotech company Bolt Threads has announced a partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks, a company creating a platform that allows users to “program cells as easily as computers”.
Through the collaboration, Bolt Threads hopes to make the manufactu... |
| 06.08.2021 | SynBio Startups Bolt Threads and Ginkgo Team Up To Disrupt Beauty Industry | 3 Mins Read
Bolt Threads, the company making spider silk without spiders, and strain engineering firm Ginkgo Bioworks, are now working together to usher in the future of clean beauty. Tapping into Ginkgo’s genetic engineering expertise, Bol... |
| 09.07.2021 | Lululemon Collaborates With Bolt Threads For Mushroom-Based Yoga Accessories | Canadian premium athletic retailer Lululemon has become the latest brand to launch products made with Mylo, an alternative leather made from mycelium – the branching root network of fungus.
Through its partnership with US biotechnology comp... |
| 26.05.2021 | Luxury Miami Brand niLuu Unveils Biodegradable Vegan Silk | niLuu is a luxury loungewear brand with a difference — all the silk it uses is vegan and made in a sustainable, socially responsible way. While other vegan silk producers such as Bolt Threads are creating bioengineered silk, the concept of ... |
| 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... |
| 22.03.2021 | Stella McCartney Debuts Garments Made From Vegan Mushroom Leather | Fashion designer Stella McCartney has created two garments made from Mylo, a mushroom-based vegan leather alternative that’s completely biodegradable. The fabric is made by biotech company Bolt Threads.
The two garments are a black bustier ... |
| 25.02.2021 | Allbirds is investing in a plant-based leather substitute, plans faux-leather shoe drop in December | The sustainability focused shoe maker Allbirds has taken another step to green its supply chain with a small $2 million investment in a new company called Natural Fiber Welding.
Announced this morning, the investment in Natural Fiber Weldin... |
| 28.01.2021 | Kering, Stella McCartney Partner With Apparel Impact Institute To Make Italian Fashion More Sustainable | 1
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The Apparel Impact Institute recently announced a project, informally called ‘The Italy Project’ in partnership with Stella McCartney, Burberry, and French luxury fashion group Kering with the aim of improving the envi... |
| 04.01.2021 | Adidas to Launch Vegan Shoes Made with Mushroom Leather | Adidas has revealed it is working on vegan shoes made from a biodegradable fungi-based leather alternative. To develop the shoes, it has partnered with Bolt Threads, the biotech company that produces the leather.
Known as Mylo™, the materia... |
| 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... |
| 28.10.2020 | US-Based Bolt Threads Chooses Arnhem as First Global Office to Scale its Supply Chain | US-based biotech company Bolt Threads has opened an office in Arnhem, the Netherlands to support its first-of-its-kind supply chain created to scale its Mylo material, a sustainable leather alternative made from mycelium. A start-up from Si... |
| 07.10.2020 | Mushroom “Unleather” Specialist Bolt Threads Partners with Adidas, Stella McCartney, Kering & Lululemon | Bolt Threads, a biotech company creating the next generation of advanced materials, recently announced an unprecedented consortium with four iconic global companies that have secured exclusive access to its innovative material, Mylo™, made ... |
| 07.10.2020 | Adidas и Lululemon начали сотрудничать со стартапом, который выращивает «кожу» из грибов | Фото: Bolt Threads
Стартап Bolt Threads производит веганский материал Mylo, похожий на кожу, из особого вида волокна, сделанного из мицелия. Так называют вегетативное тело грибов, состоящее из тонких разветвлённых нитей. Бренды Adidas и Lul... |
| 07.10.2020 | Производители спортивной одежды Adidas и Lululemon начнут продавать одежду из «грибной кожи» Статьи редакции | Партнёрство стартапа Bolt Threads с брендами из массмаркета может популяризировать использование экологичного заменителя кожи, пишет The New York Times.
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| 02.10.2020 | The Battle To Save The World’s Rarest Species From Extinction Following Mauritius Oil Spill | The Mauritius Ornate Day Gecko on Ile aux Aigrettes, in Southeast MauritiusMauritian Wildlife Foundation |
| 02.10.2020 | Bolt Threads partners with Adidas, owners of Balenciaga and Gucci, and Stella McCartney on mushroom leather | Bolt Threads has brought together some new and existing partners, including Stella McCartney, Kering (the fashion house behind brands like Balenciaga, Gucci, Alexander McQueen and Bottega Veneta), Lululemon and Adidas to create a consortium... |
| 27.09.2019 | How To Spot A Synthetic Biology Unicorn | Biotech is projected to reach $775 billion by 2024, but dozens of companies in the field of ... [+] synthetic biology are creating magical tools to go beyond that. Look here for the next unicorn. Jelena Trmčić for SynBioBeta |
| 08.07.2019 | 10 Sustainable Textile Startups Changing the Fabric of Fashion | 144 shares
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| 07.03.2019 | Bolt Threads Debuts Skincare Range Created From Bioengineered Silk | ©Bolt Threads
Bolt Threads, the venture backed innovators of natural materials such as MycroSilk and Mylo, a leather alternative made from mushrooms, announce their newest venture – Eighteen B skincare, using lab-created silk protein as a p... |
| 14.09.2018 | Bolt Threads’ Bags First Mushroom Leather Bag Released | Bolt Threads, the bioengineering company from California, has finally released its first selection of luxury bags made of a unique plant-based leather derived from mushroom roots. The innovative range is available now on Kickstarter and wil... |
| 16.04.2018 | Bolt Threads joins Modern Meadow in the quest to bring lab-grown leather to market | There’s a new world of lab-grown replacements coming for everything, from the meat department in your grocery store to a department store near you.
Lab-made leather replacements will soon join vegetable-based meat replacements on store shel... |
| 23.01.2018 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, January 23 | LPs WAKE UP
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| 22.01.2018 | Bolt Threads Secures $123m in Series D funding | Bolt Threads, an Emeryville, California-based developer of programmable fibers and fabrics, secured $123m in Series D funding.
The round was led by Baillie Gifford with participation from Fidelity Management and Research Company, Formation ... |
| 22.01.2018 | Bolt Threads Grabs $123M Series D |
EMERYVILLE, CA, Bolt Threads announced it has raised $123 million in Series D funding led by Baillie Gifford.
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| 03.01.2018 | Spider silk startup Bolt Threads closes on $123 million in Series D funding | Bolt Threads, the startup making spider silk from microbugs, has raised a giant $123 million Series D round of funding. As we reported in November, an SEC filing showed the company had raised $106 million from Formation 8.
Bolt now tells Te... |
| 14.12.2017 | Andreessen Horowitz has a new, $450 million bio fund | Almost exactly two years ago, the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz took the wraps off a $200 million “biofund” that aimed to invest at the intersection of biology and engineering and was being led by its (then) new general partner, Vijay Pa... |
| 14.12.2017 | Ginkgo Bioworks raises $275 million to bring its lab-made DNA to more industries | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 14.12.2017 | Ginkgo Bioworks raises $275 million to bring its lab-made DNA to more industries | Ginkgo Bioworks, a Boston-based biotech company that designs custom microbes for clients across multiple industries, has raised $275 million in a series D round of funding from Viking Global, Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund, Bill Gates’ Casc... |
| 07.12.2017 | Bolt Threads creates $198 hat made from synthetic spider silk and wool | Bay Area biotechnology company Bolt Threads has launched its second consumer-focused garment in the form of a Best Made-branded hat that combines bioengineered spider silk with wool fibers.
Priced at $198, the head-warmer is limited to just... |
| 07.12.2017 | Bolt Threads creates $198 hat made from synthetic spider silk and wool | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Bay Area biotechnology company Bolt Threads has l... |
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| 09.11.2017 | Bolt Threads is raising $106 million from Foundation Capital and Formation 8 | Our spidey senses are tingling over here. According to an SEC filing, TechCrunch has learned Bolt Threads, the biotech company spinning microbes into spider silk, is raising a whopping $106 million in Series D financing.
Bolt Threads has be... |
| 10.03.2017 | This $314 Tie is Made With Spider’s Silk | Although it sounds like a sci-fi dream wrapped in an Onion article, Bolt Threads—a San Francisco-based startup that wants to disrupt the retail industry by mass-producing spider silk—is very much a real thing.
Real enough, in fact, that it ... |
| 10.03.2017 | Bolt Threads debuts its first product, a $314 tie made from spiderwebs | It may not look like a bunch of cobwebs, but the tie you see above was spun from the same material spiders spin out from their behinds. The difference is this thread was mass-produced from fermented microbial poop instead, and it’s the firs... |
| 10.03.2017 | Biotech company Bolt Threads debuts $314 necktie made entirely from ‘spider silk’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 10.03.2017 | Biotech company Bolt Threads debuts $314 necktie made entirely from ‘spider silk’ | Bay Area biotechnology company Bolt Threads is offering the first glimpse of its futuristic fibers with the debut of a necktie made entirely from lab-produced “spider silk.”
Founded in 2009, Bolt Threads has been setting out to “engineer th... |
| 08.10.2016 | A startup founder’s playbook for transforming big industry | Agile development, rapid learning, granular instrumentation, a large-scale compute and data infrastructure, cutting-edge machine learning — these are the ingredients that give innovative companies their edge.
But to date, this mindset and a... |
| 08.10.2016 | A startup founder’s playbook for transforming big industry | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 12.05.2016 | Bolt Threads Grabs $50M Series C Round |
EMERYVILLE, CA, Bolt Threads, a maker of spider silk threads, has raised $50 million in Series C funding.
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| 11.05.2016 | Bolt Threads Raises $50M in Series C Funding | Bolt Threads, an Emeryville, Calif.-based biotechnology company creating next generation high performance fabrics, raised $50m in Series C financing.
The round was led by existing investor Formation 8 with participation from new investors N... |
| 11.05.2016 | Bolt Threads raises $50 million to brew spider silk, inks deal with Patagonia | If the idea of wearing spider silk intrigues, the idea of managing a farm full of spiders isn’t all that appealing. A startup called Bolt Threads has developed a means of brewing spider silk and other insect fibers and spinning then into ya... |
| 27.11.2015 | Founders Fund on Its Processes, Deal Flow, and Newest Big Bets | Founders Fund, founded 10 years ago, wasted little time in establishing itself as a venture firm that’s willing to make unusual and often outsize bets.
Recently, at the their San Francisco offices, we sat down with the firm’s chief scientis... |
| 04.06.2015 | Bolt Threads Raises $32.3M in Series B Funding | Bolt Threads, an Emeryville, California-based developer of next generation textiles, raised $32.3m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Foundation Capital with participation from new investors Formation 8 and Founders Fund.
The company... |
| 04.06.2015 | Bolt Threads Grabs $32.3M in Series B |
EMERYVILLE, CA, Today Bolt Threads, a new company developing the next generation of high-performance textiles, announced its emergence from stealth and $32.3 million in Series B funding.
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| 04.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 4, 2015 | Nervana Systems secured $20.5M; Zopper raised $20M; S4M nabbed $8M
Pie, a Singapore-headquartered enterprise messaging service for ‘normals’, raised an $1.2 million Series A round as it prepares to monetize its service. The freshly-baked fu... |
| 04.06.2015 | Bolt Threads Comes Out Of Stealth With $40 Million In Funding To Make Clothing From Material Found In Spider Webs | Do you like spiders? Do you like the idea of wearing spider webs? Well, you’ll soon be able to wear clothing made from the same material as spider webs if a new startup called Bolt Threads gets its way.
The startup plans to make clothing th... |
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