Faux Leather, Real Money: Fabric Funding Sizzles as Startups Spin Out Cell-Grown Leather and More
5th May 2022
In the not-too-distant future, it may be possible to come home, kick off your made-from-fungus sneakers, hang up your kelp yarn jacket, and plop down on a plush sofa upholstered in cell-grown leather.
Those are some of the fabric and materials advancements that, in varying degrees of market readiness, startups have been cooking up in the past few years. With venture funding to the space picking up this past year, many are getting closer to mass-market adoption.