Unconventional Ventures makes latest bet on startup making roads from mushrooms

13 Jul 2026
14:07
Danish VC Unconventional Ventures has placed its latest bet on a startup growing a replacement for cement out of fungi.
Conviction in the founder, Line Kloster Pedersen, drove the deal as much as the science.
"She understands the science at a level that very few founders do," founding partner Thea Messel tells Impact Loop.
Conviction in the founder, Line Kloster Pedersen, drove the deal as much as the science.
"She understands the science at a level that very few founders do," founding partner Thea Messel tells Impact Loop.
A Danish Vc has backed a young startup making roads from mushrooms.
Unconventional Ventures and Denmark's EIFO have co-led a €3.34m seed round in Visibuilt, a Copenhagen startup replacing cement and bitumen with a binder grown from fungi.