Recorded live at the Pitch Perfect Bioeconomy event in Brussels, this episode features Line Kloster Pedersen, Founder & CEO of Visibuilt, and one of the boldest ideas we’ve seen on the bio-based stage this year.
Visibuilt is developing the world’s first fungal binders for road construction, replacing fossil-based bitumen and highly polluting cement with mycelium, nature’s own underground binding network.
Yes, you read that right. They’ve already built the world’s first mycelium bicycle parking lot in Denmark.
We talk about:
Why asphalt and concrete are massive climate problems
How mycelium can bind rocks at low temperatures
Cutting fossil dependency and energy use in construction
Using local agricultural and forestry side streams
What it really takes to scale biotech into heavy industry
Line shares how a run around the lakes of Copenhagen sparked the idea — and how Visibuilt has since raised €4.7M, built a team of 18, and is now raising a €4.5M seed round to move from manual production to modular scale.
This is bioeconomy in action: science leaving the lab and entering infrastructure.
If more than 60% of the roads in 2050 haven’t been built yet, the question is simple: Why should they be fossil-based?
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