Hyfé is a Chicago based climate-tech company unlocking low-cost production of sustainable essential goods by transforming food manufacturing waste streams into fermentation feedstock. The company has chosen mycelium protein powder as its first product category to showcase the technology’s ability to make high quality, consistent products from variable inputs. Biomanufacturing has the potential to create solutions to some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity if rendered economically viable. Reducing cost of production is key to making sustainable bioproducts competitive against subsidized commodities. The feedstocks that power bioproduction represent a high impact opportunity since they account for up to 50% of fermentation operating expenses and are vulnerable to supply chain disruptions. Wastewater accounts for 1.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and food manufacturing is the third largest contributor. Hyfé’s patent-pending technology upgrades nutrients that are washed away in trillions of gallons of water from the food supply chain every year and uses them to drive down the cost of fermentation.