23 January 202415 January 2024 SQIM secures € 11 million in series a funding for industrialization of mycelium-based technologies Formerly known as MOGU SRL, SQIM has successfully closed a €11 Million funding round to expand Industrial Scale-Up through the launch of a newly dedicated Demo Plant
18 March 202216 March 2022 Mogu launched the new biomaterial EPHEA, as part of Balenciaga’s Winter 2022 runway show Setting a new standard in the alternative leather market, with a superior class of flexible mycelium materials for fashion
28 May 202116 June 2021 An interview with Stefano Babbini, CEO of the Italian SME Mogu Stefano Babbini talks with us about the company’s main business, the bioeconomy at European level and the BBI JU demo project Grace
21 October 202016 October 2020 Why the search for the perfect vegan leather starts on the forest floor One of the biggest challenges with fungi-derived leather is making a uniform "mat" with consistent thickness, appearance and color, while to balance durability with biodegradability
28 September 202023 September 2020 Vegan leather for sustainable fashion Recent publication in Nature Sustainability on vegan leather investigates ‘fungus-derived renewable leather substitutes’ versus animal and synthetic leathers
