One among 40 cleantech startups chosen globally, Mycocycle will current its patent-pending merchandise to potential traders and different cleantech trade stakeholders.  

Mycocycle, Inc., a pacesetter in utilizing mycoremediation to course of toxins out of waste, is proud to announce it was chosen to current its patent-pending course of that transforms building waste into low-carbon uncooked supplies for the constructed setting to traders and trade representatives on the Nationwide Renewable Power Laboratory’s (NREL) 2024 Business Progress Discussion board (IGF), Might 1-3, in Denver, Colorado. The U.S. Division of Power’s NREL hosts the IGF, now in its twenty ninth yr. It is without doubt one of the nation’s premier occasions for cleantech entrepreneurs and different trade consultants. Mycocycle earned the presentation spot from a subject of greater than 210 entrepreneurs following an intensive choice course of.  

Mycocycle’s strategy of utilizing fungi to rework waste supplies right into a reusable useful resource captured the eye of cleantech stakeholders due to its potential to dramatically scale back the unfavourable impression that the development trade has on the setting. The ensuing biomaterial that’s produced is each fire- and water resistant and can be utilized within the manufacture of many new merchandise, together with constructing supplies, leading to a real closed-loop ecosystem.  

“We’re thrilled to have the ability to showcase our nature-based options which can be remodeling how we deal with building waste,” Mycocyle CEO and Founder Joanne Rodriguez said. “Our course of is ready to leverage mushrooms to cut back emissions in two of the heaviest-polluting industries and remodel waste to assets.”  

Innovation facilities like NREL construct new fashions to assist key gamers within the vitality innovation setting, and the IGF is a nexus for the trade. It’s a one-of-a-kind, premier occasion for cleantech entrepreneurs, traders and consultants from trade and the general public sector. A serious function is the session of one-on-one conferences between potential traders and innovators. NREL is the one U.S. federal laboratory devoted to renewable vitality and vitality effectivity analysis. 

For extra data and a whole record of IGF presenting firms, please go to https://www.nrelforum.com/.  

About Mycocycle 

Mycocycle, Inc. is a nature-inspired and woman-owned biotechnology startup that leverages fungi to rework industrial waste into reusable supplies. Based in 2018, the corporate is on a mission to drive circularity within the building provide chain and divert waste from landfills with its modern answer. Mycocycle blends lab-cultivated fungi with particles on the level of waste technology to detoxify hard-to-recycle constructing supplies and switch them into new uncooked supplies. Its clients embrace firms throughout the waste administration, recycling and manufacturing industries, in addition to firms targeted on lowering Scope 3 emissions.  

In 2023, Mycocycle was issued a Declare label for its “MycoFILL© G” supplies by the Worldwide Residing Futures Institute, which acknowledged its merchandise as Pink Listing Chemical Free. Mycocycle is a FastCompany World Altering Concepts finalist and its CEO has been honored as a Setting + Power Chief High 100 Chief, Crain’s Chicago High 50 Sustainability Government and named to the inaugural Forbes Subsequent 1000 record.