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IBF announces strategic partnership with Danish startup Visibuilt to bring mycelium-based pavers to market
Danish concrete leader IBF has entered a new partnership with Visibuilt, a Copenhagen-based startup developing the world’s first mycelium binder for outdoor paving materials. The collaboration aims to scale Visibuilt’s technology, visiBINDER, for commercial production of fungal biopavers, offering a potential alternative to traditional cement-based binders. “IBF works with many innovative start-ups, and we see
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Oleksii Rebrov, CSO, steps up as Co-founder of Visibuilt
Visibuilt’s Chief Scientific Officer, Oleksii Rebrov, is stepping into the role of Co-founder of Visibuilt. This marks a natural next step in recognition of his outstanding commitment, leadership, and significant contributions to Visibuilt’s development and scientific foundation over the past two years. Oleksii Rebrov joined Visibuilt in early 2024, serving first as Head of Science and now CSO, where he has played a key role in driving Visibuilt’s research and technology forward. With a PhD in Physics from Stockholm University and
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Danish startup creates the world’s first cultivated outdoor paver – a natural alternative to cement
Cement is used to make concrete, which is among the most carbon-intensive building materials known today. Now, the traditional binder faces new competition. The Danish startup Visibuilt has developed a completely new type of paver bound together by the fungal root network – mycelium – which is a natural binder with great potential. These cultivated
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Visibuilt Secures €1.1 Million Pre-Seed Funding from BioTech Pioneers and a Climate Tech Foundation to Advance World’s First Fermentation-Based Binder for Asphalt
Visibuilt has successfully closed its pre-seed funding round, raising €1.1 million with the support of EMDFonden and a consortium of four seasoned investors: Steen Riisgaard, Per Falholt, David Kauffmann, and Thomas G. Schmidt. This brings Visibuilt’s total funding record to €4.4 million, providing a boost to the development of visiBIT, the world’s first fermentation-based binder
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Visibuilt Completes Industrial Test: Successful Parking Area Paving with Fermentation-Based Binder at the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel
On September 11th, the Danish start-up Visibuilt, in collaboration with industry partner NCC, successfully paved 18 square meters of road at a tunnel construction site using their innovative fermentation-based binder, visiBIT. This milestone brings Visibuilt closer to its goal of replacing traditional bitumen, a fossil fuel-based binder, with visiBIT, a potential game-changer for the pavement
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Danish Biotech Startup Secures EUR 1.3 million to Reinvent Asphalt Production with First Fermented Binder
With global pressure mounting for climate-neutral solutions, Danish biotech startup Visibuilt has secured €1.3 million to advance their groundbreaking fermented asphalt binder, visiBIT. This innovative product has the potential to drastically reduce the environmental footprint of road construction and has been supported by BioInnovation Institute’s Venture House program. With this support, Visibuilt has raised in
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LOOPER Project Receives DKK 13.18 million Grant to Create Low-Energy Bio-Renewable Paving Materials
The collaborative initiative known as LOOPER, a joint effort between Visibuilt ApS, Munck Asfalt A/S, and the Technical University of Denmark, has been awarded a substantial grant of DKK 13,184,104 from EUDP – Det Energiteknologiske Udviklings-og Demonstrationsprogram to further develop and test a new binder for pavement construction – called visiBIT. Purpose of The LOOPER
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