About Us

About Mycorena

Mycorena is a food tech company that works with fungi technology to create products and processes that will major impact the global sustainability challenges. Since our start in 2017, we have developed a proprietary process based on fungi biotechnology to create vegan protein for food products in the most resource-efficient and sustainable way. With this vegan food ingredient, the possibilities are endless, and we have multiple food prototypes, such as vegan tuna, vegan crispy burgers, vego balls, that are being sold all around Sweden. With our technology, we aim to change the future of food.

Where are we heading?

We envision being the world’s leading brand for fungi-based products made possible through biotechnology.
Today, we are located in Gothenburg, where we have established Scandinavia's largest-ever mycoprotein pilot production plant, with a current production capacity of 100 tons per year. With this capacity, we have initiated multiple successful collaborations with industry leaders worldwide, both in B2B and B2C markets. In 2022 we will finalize the construction of our first full-scale commercial production plant, which will be one of its kind but one of many that we will build.

2013

Research and Development Begins

Our technology starts with Ramkumar Nair’s PhD project. Projects ongoing here lead to a customization of the process and exploration of the concept of creating fungi-based protein from low-value resources.

Q4 2017

Mycorena AB is Founded

An idea becomes a living organism. Mycorena is born after the market potential of the idea has been verified. In the beginning of 2018, Mycorena gets full-speed into its road to the market.

Q2 2018

First Investment from GU Ventures

Seed investment from GU Ventures allowed us to grow and expand our team and activities.

Q4 2018

Start of Trials for Industrial Process

Collaborations with external partners allow for testing the fungi protein production process in large scale.

Q1 2019

Own Lab at Sahlgrenska Science Park

We formed our own lab unit at Sahlgrenska Science Park and integrated the GUV Incubator Program. Lab scale production enables initial tests with product users and further development of process is made.

Q2 2019

Promyc Release and Food Companies Start Testing

Promyc is released as a protein ingredient for food. Different companies express interesting in testing it for creating their own food products, becoming our prospective customers of today.

Q1 2020

Expansion to Pilot Facility

By the end of 2019, Mycorena has expanded into a larger facility with a capacity of up to hundreds-of-liters bioreactor volumes. This enables the shipping of product development samples for several industrial partners.

Q1 2021

Construction of Demo Plant, MIND

In 2021, the company quickly developed into Scandinavia's first mycoprotein demo plant, Mycorena Innovation and Development Center (MIND), which reached a production capacity of more than 100tons.

Q3 2021

Groundbreaking

During Q3 2021, we broke the ground for our first commercial scale production facility (3P). This production plant will be the first of its kind, however one of many that we will build, introducing a new way of combining innovation and production.

Q1 2022

Series A Funding

The largest-ever Nordic Series A funding round and one of the most significant in all of Europe, in the alternative protein space.

2023

First Commercial-Scale Production

In 2022, the Promyc production plant (3P) will be fully operating. This is expected to occur in association with large food companies that will own the first Promyc product in the market.