Press and interviews
Ecovative in the world
Reporting and conversations about Ecovative, from our first experiments with a biological glue to the work of establishing a new agricultural crop. These accounts follow the ideas, products, and production lessons behind the company.
The ideas behind the work
Eben on biological manufacturing
The ideas behind the work
Scientific American · 2019
Establishing a new industrial crop
The ideas behind the work
AgFunderNews · 2024
Origins and packaging
Eben Bayer at TEDGlobal: “Are mushrooms the new plastic?”
Origins and packagingIdeas2010
TED (2010)
Replacing packaging foam with fungus
Origins and packagingPackaging2010
Wired (2010)
Dell uses mushroom packaging for servers
Origins and packagingPackaging2011
Forbes (2011)
Dell adopts mushroom packaging
Origins and packagingPackaging2011
SustainableBusiness (2011)
Steelcase introduces packaging made from biological materials
Origins and packagingPackaging2010
Steelcase (2010)
Sealed Air licenses Mushroom® Packaging technology
Origins and packagingPackaging2012
Sealed Air (2012)
Ford explores car parts made with mycelium
Origins and packagingIndustrial2011
CNN (2011)
Ian Frazier’s “Form and Fungus”
Origins and packagingProfile2013
New Yorker (2013)
The Guardian: “Can mushrooms replace plastic?”
Origins and packagingPackaging2013
Guardian (2013)
PBS NOVA: “Mushroom Material”
Origins and packagingVideo2013
PBS (2013)
CNN: “Mushrooms: future of packaging”
Origins and packagingVideo2014
CNN (2014)
Wired: “DIY kit lets you make designs out of mushrooms”
Origins and packagingDIY2014
Wired (2014)
IKEA explores mushroom packaging
Origins and packagingPackaging2016
The Weather Channel (2016)
Architecture and design
Designing Hy-Fi
Architecture and designArchitecture2014
Buckminster Fuller Institute (2014)
Building Hy-Fi
Architecture and designArchitecture2014
Buckminster Fuller Institute (2014)
A tower built with mycelium
Architecture and designArchitecture2014
Wired (2014)
How the Hy-Fi bricks were grown
Architecture and designArchitecture2014
ArchDaily (2014)
Hy-Fi at the Holcim Foundation
Architecture and designArchitecture2014
Holcim (2014)
TED reports on Hy-Fi
Architecture and designArchitecture2014
TED Blog (2014)
Forager and textiles
Ecovative forms a materials cooperative with PVH and BESTSELLER
Forager and textilesFashion2021
PR Newswire (2021)
PANGAIA and Vivobarefoot partner on mycelium foam
Forager and textilesFashion2022
BusinessWire (2022)
Reformation and Wolverine join the cooperative
Forager and textilesFashion2022
BusinessWire (2022)
ECCO Leather and Ecovative develop mycelium hides
Forager and textilesFashion2022
Textiles.org (2022)
Vogue reports on the materials cooperative
Forager and textilesFashion2022
Vogue (2022)
Forager names Dr. Conny Wittke president
Forager and textilesFashion2024
BusinessWire (2024)
Ecovative and Limbraco develop AirMycelium™ equipment
Forager and textilesEquipment2023
BusinessWire (2023)
FoodNavigator reports on the Limbraco partnership
Forager and textilesEquipment2023
FoodNavigator (2023)
Designboom reports on Ecovative’s materials and food work
Forager and textilesFood and materials2019
Designboom (2019)
MyForest Foods
Atlast raises $40 million in Series A funding
MyForest FoodsFunding2021
PR Newswire (2021)
Forbes reports on Atlast’s $40 million funding round
MyForest FoodsFunding2021
Forbes (2021)
Axios visits Swersey Silos
MyForest FoodsScale2022
Axios (2022)
MyForest Foods raises $15 million and appoints a CEO
MyForest FoodsFunding2023
FinSMEs (2023)
Food Business News reports on MyForest Foods’ funding
MyForest FoodsFunding2023
FoodBusinessNews (2023)
MyForest Foods reports on new funding and retail distribution
MyForest FoodsTraction2025
MyForest Foods (2025)
Yumda reports on Ecovative’s $11 million funding round
MyForest FoodsTraction2025
Yumda (2025)
Times Union reports on the Green Island expansion
MyForest FoodsScale2025
Times Union (2025)
HortiDaily reports on Ecovative’s $28 million funding round
MyForest FoodsFunding2025
HortiDaily (2025)
Ecovative announces more than $30 million in Series E funding
MyForest FoodsFunding2023
BusinessWire (2023)
FoodNavigator reports on equipment for mycelium farming
MyForest FoodsEquipment2023
FoodNavigator USA (2023)
PBS: “Mushroom Bacon”
MyForest FoodsVideo2024
PBS (2024)
Bloomberg: “Future of Plant-Based Meat”
MyForest FoodsVideo2021
Bloomberg (2021)
Funding and facilities
Ecovative raises $60 million in Series D funding
Funding and facilitiesFunding2021
PRNewswire (2021)
Public funding for Ecovative’s Green Island facilities
Funding and facilitiesFunding2025
Times Union (2025)
Ideas and interviews
TED: “9 ways mushrooms could drastically improve the world”
Ideas and interviewsIdeas2014
TED Blog (2014)
TED Ideas on reducing plastic use
Ideas and interviewsIdeas2017
TED (2017)
Forbes profiles Ecovative
Ideas and interviewsProfile2016
Forbes (2016)
Other work in mycelium textiles
Sector context: Balenciaga’s Ephea coat
Other work in mycelium textilesContext2022
Vogue Business (2022)