Building panels, grown from fungi and farm waste.
MycoPanel grows insulation and acoustic panels from Neurospora crassa and French agricultural residue — mineral-wool thermal performance with up to 70% less embodied carbon.
Panel at a glance
Construction's carbon problem moved from energy to materials.
Europe's strictest carbon rules now target what buildings are made of, not just how they run. France has the regulation and the raw material — but no domestic mycelium supply.
RE2020 tightens embodied-carbon limits in 2025, 2028 and 2031. Standard concrete-and-mineral-wool assemblies already fall outside the 2025 threshold — developers need verified low-carbon alternatives at scale.
From farm waste to finished panel in about seven days.
A low-energy, fully circular process. Fungal threads grow through loose agricultural residue and bind it into a solid, uniform panel — no adhesives, no high-temperature curing.
Built for the spaces people live and work in.
A warm, natural surface that reads as a design material — not industrial foam. The same panels, on the wall.
Three layers of innovation, combined.
Others optimise one variable. MycoPanel engineers the organism, the feedstock and the market position together.
Molecular strain platform
Most producers screen Ganoderma or Pleurotus by trial and error. We build on Neurospora crassa — genome sequenced in 2003, thousands of characterised mutants. Our CTO published on it in Genetics (2015). Visible colonisation in 24 hours cuts incubation by 30–40%.
Circular substrate model
Phase 1 runs on agricultural residue. Phase 2 turns construction and demolition waste — 46M tonnes a year in France — into feedstock, adding a second revenue line from processing fees. Three laws pull the same way: RE2020, AGEC, ZAN.
First in France
Funded competitors operate in Italy, the UK, Germany and Estonia. France — the EU's largest agricultural producer and its strictest carbon regulator — has zero domestic supply. That gap is the opening MycoPanel is built to fill.
A €910M-class market on track to €2.5B — with no French players.
French bio-based insulation reached €92M and 11% market share in 2023, and it is still climbing. The global mycelium building-materials market is compounding at double digits.
Global mycelium building materials market
Embodied carbon by material
Three products, activating in sequence.
MycoPanel opens with the fastest route to revenue, then moves into regulated, higher-volume markets as certification lands.
Design-grade acoustic panels, sold directly to architects and interior specialists in Île-de-France.
No construction certification is required, so this is the first revenue line — the fastest way to put real panels in real spaces while certification work runs in parallel.
Construction-grade insulation panels for renovation and new build.
Once ATEx certification clears the CSTB, MycoPanel enters the RE2020-driven insulation market: larger volumes, longer sales cycles, and demand pulled by tightening carbon limits.
Turning demolition waste into feedstock — paid to take it, then selling the panels made from it.
Phase 2 adds a second revenue line on top of panel sales. France generates 46 million tonnes of construction waste a year, and AGEC makes recycling it a compliance obligation for builders.
Science and market, under one roof.
A microbiologist who has published on the exact organism the company runs on, paired with a construction operator who knows how building materials reach the market.
Nsa Imade Yolanda
PhD in Microbiology (Texas A&M) and Associate Professor at the University of Lagos. Published on Neurospora crassa in Genetics (2015) — the organism MycoPanel is built on — with further work in bioremediation. Leads scientific development and company strategy.
Olanrewaju Amos Abioye
Construction and building-materials operator. CEO of Midhousepro and former CEO of Britfirm (building-materials supply). Knows what builders buy, at what price, and through which channels — and turns lab materials into market-ready products.
Let's build the first French mycelium plant.
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