Mushroom Material

Mushroom Material is a New Zealand and Singapore based sustainable-packaging startup founded in 2020 by Shaun Seaman and Jotinder Singh that grows a biodegradable, home-compostable alternative to expanded polystyrene (Styrofoam) from fungal mycelium. The company combines agricultural byproducts such as wood chips, sawdust, hemp straw and cardboard with mycelium to grow millions of pellets, coats them in a biopolymer binder, and uses compression molding to shape protective packaging that drops into existing Styrofoam production lines. The material offers shock absorption, low density and natural water resistance while composting in months. A Techstars-backed company, Mushroom Material raised a US$5M+ (NZ$8.5M) seed round led by Wavemaker Partners and Singapore's SEEDS Capital (with Icehouse Ventures, K1W1 and Black Kite Capital) to build a pilot plant in Auckland. This profile is a materials/manufacturing company in the API Evangelist network; it has no public API surface.

Mushroom Material is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Sustainability, Packaging, Materials, and Mycelium.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanySustainabilityPackagingMaterialsMyceliumBiomaterialsCleanTechManufacturing

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

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name: Mushroom Material
description: Mushroom Material is a New Zealand and Singapore based sustainable-packaging startup founded in 2020 by Shaun
  Seaman and Jotinder Singh that grows a biodegradable, home-compostable alternative to expanded polystyrene (Styrofoam) from
  fungal mycelium. The company combines agricultural byproducts such as wood chips, sawdust, hemp straw and cardboard with
  mycelium to grow millions of pellets, coats them in a biopolymer binder, and uses compression molding to shape protective
  packaging that drops into existing Styrofoam production lines. The material offers shock absorption, low density and natural
  water resistance while composting in months. A Techstars-backed company, Mushroom Material raised a US$5M+ (NZ$8.5M) seed
  round led by Wavemaker Partners and Singapore's SEEDS Capital (with Icehouse Ventures, K1W1 and Black Kite Capital) to build
  a pilot plant in Auckland. This profile is a materials/manufacturing company in the API Evangelist network; it has no public
  API surface.
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- Sustainability
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Mushroom Material

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Source (apis.yml)