Mycofeast
Mycofeast is a Precision Fermentation company founded in 2023 and based in Oxford, United Kingdom.
Mycofeast was founded in 2023 and is headquartered in Oxford, England. It develops fermentation-derived ingredients for human and animal nutrition, including dairy proteins, carotenoids for animal feed, natural colorants and fermented functional beverage ingredients, and sells them to other businesses. Under an agreement signed on March 21, 2024, it bought the former Leżajsk brewery in Poland from Grupa Żywiec, part of Heineken, and is converting it into a manufacturing site that Mycofeast describes as a 16-million-litre fermentation plant. On April 30, 2025 its US subsidiary closed the purchase of Epimeron USA from Willow Biosciences for $2.76 million in cash; renamed Evolutia Bio, the unit runs strain engineering from a lab in San Carlos, California. On October 15, 2026 Mycofeast announced the acquisition of Daisy Lab, an Auckland precision-fermentation company working on lactoferrin, which gave it operations in New Zealand.
Mycofeast is building fermentation capacity, a constraint on scaling precision-fermented ingredients, by buying existing assets instead of building plants from scratch. Its Leżajsk site reuses brewery fermentation equipment and adds separate production lines so it can make different products without cross-contamination. The Daisy Lab deal of October 15, 2026 took Mycofeast into lactoferrin, a dairy protein that Helaina and TurtleTree also make by fermentation. Evolutia Bio's California team will work on Daisy Lab's lactoferrin program.
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Headquarters
Oxford
United KingdomFounded
2023
Status
Private
Subsector
Food Tech, ranked
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Leadership
Witek Hruzewicz
Co-founder & CEO
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Doane Chilcoat
Co-founder & Non-executive Board Member
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