Natural Melanin 4000x lower cost . Avisa Myko Inc has developed an unique and extremely cost effective fermentation technology to produce Melanin ( The Black pigment in our Skin and Hair ) . Melanin currently has few commercial applications because of the prohibitive cost (400 USD per gm) and supply constraints . Avisa Myko plans to break this vicious cycle of High cost and low usage by selling the melanin 4000 times lower . The company is working on developing various use cases for its Natural Melanin in Cosmetics , Pharma and Industrial applications including rechargeable Magnesium ion and sodium ion batteries Company has no competitors for its Black Eumelanin technology . Avisa Myko has received seed funding from Indiebio Accelerator ( https://indiebio.co/) and SOSV . (https://sosv.com/)