Harnessing the fungal kingdom. Building the full stack to unlock world-bending solutions.
Nature ran a 3.5 billion year competition
The winning organisms are the most sophisticated technologies on Earth
Humanity spent 10,000 years harnessing these organisms.
To produce the food, feed, and molecules that underpin society
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But an entire kingdom was left behind, too complex for human minds and hands
Hedgehog is building the full stack to harness fungi
Purpose-built discovery platform enables AI to design and learn from thousands of experiments. Interactions between fungal growth and substrate nutrients, chemistry, and microbiome are modeled, enabling us to search for max yield and min contamination.
>1,000x larger solid-state bioreactors eliminate most labor and operations overhead. Proprietary hydronic controls provide the precision and stability to grow at such large scale. Automation throughout production further decreases operations.
AI dynamically manages cultivation based on sensor data. Sensors measure substrate materials' characteristics, substrate microbiome activity, and fungal growth. AI manipulates growth through atmospheric composition, air flow and pressure, temperature, moisture, and physical agitation.
With 12-20x efficiency improvements, world-changing applications become economically feasible
The fungal kingdom holds solutions to many of our biggest problems
Mushrooms, protein ingredients, and natural additives
Feed
Bulk feed from agricultural residues, fish feed, and pet food
Molecules
Enzymes, organic acids, and a long tail of bioproduction applications
Produced by transforming agricultural and forestry waste
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