Mycopreneur Incubator Weds 8/21

Welcome to the Mycopreneur Incubator Newsletter

This is me rebooting the long dormant Mycopreneur Newsletter and finessing it into the fruitful & robust weekly Mycopreneur Incubator invite / myco news roundup.

The Mycopreneur Incubator is a weekly low-key, cost-free networking and incubation opportunity for mushroom entrepreneurs to connect in real time. 

We're hosting another Mycopreneur Incubator on Wednesday, August 21st at 6:00 pm EST / 3:00 pm PST

Here’s the Zoom login info:

Mycopreneur Incubator

Time: Aug 21, 2024 04:00 PM Mexico City

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87221252188?pwd=vG1c0fvAamaEZ9mqDaSODIMERsYT4Z.1

Meeting ID: 872 2125 2188

Passcode: 824548

What does it mean to ‘incubate’ a mushroom business anyways?

Simply put, an incubator is an organization that helps entrepreneurs develop their business. The guiding ethos of the Mycopreneur platform has always been to connect and uplift the global mushroom entrepreneurial ecosystem; from women mycopreneurs disrupting generational poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa with mushroom cultivation and entrepreneurship to pioneers reframing the Chilean constitution with mycologically inclusive language, on through mycomaterial designers creating a new category of materials for the fashion, footwear, automotive and decor industries en route to a $125 million Series C round - and of course the numerous distributed mushroom entrepreneurs devoting themselves to the world of psilocybin-containing mushrooms - The Mycopreneur Incubator welcomes all types of people working across myriad different disciplines involving fungi.

This will be the de facto hub for all Mycopreneur Incubator invites and related info moving forward, and also a showcase for mushroom entrepreneurs around the world. In the 2 months since we’ve been hosting these incubators on a weekly basis, we’ve welcomed over 100 different mushroom entrepreneurs from 12 countries to these online forums. We’ve had executives from multimillion dollar international mushroom operations on down through grassroots solopreneurs and activists serving their local community, multiple journalists for Rolling Stone & High Times, etc., several different lawyers working in the area of psychedelic law, policymakers, mushroom analytical potency testing pioneers, & numerous other active members of the global mycopreneurial ecosystem.

Here are a few of our recent Mycopreneur Incubator attendees running some very unique and intriguing mushroom businesses around the world -

The Founder of Magic Mushroom Map

Magic Mushroom Map crunches real time weather, seasonal & environmental data to predict where the most likely places that Psilocybe semilanceata, more commonly known as ‘Liberty Cap’ mushrooms, will be growing in the wild across the United Kingdom.

The Founders of MycoFutures, a mycelium leather design firm based in Canada - their work designing mycelium materials for the circular economy is shown below, and they had a few prototypes with them to exhibit during last week’s incubator.

And Rome Shadanloo, Founder of Mycology Psychology, who is this week’s Featured Mycopreneur.

Mycology Psychology is an educational community focused on preparation and integration for microdosing protocols and intentional exploration with mushrooms.

Rome founded Mycology Psychology while living in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2021 among the splendor and magic of the ancestral mushroom knowledge embedded in the culture there.

Mycology Psychology has grown into a robust community with numerous practitioners facilitating microdosing protocols for clients around the world, online and in person events, and their first mushroom retreat coming up August 30th to September 1st in Colorado.

In other myco news, check out the remarkable Psilocybe weraroa mushroom endemic to Aotearoa - known colloquially as ‘New Zealand’.

This psilocybin-containing fungus is curiously shaped for a ‘magic mushroom’ in that it doesn’t open its gills - and of particular interest, it is currently being studied as a treatment for methamphetamine addiction among Māori communities in Aotearoa with a protocol focused on using the full fruiting body (not a synthetic version of psilocybin as is the focus of most medicalized psilocybin research in the Global North) and administered in a community-led protocol rather than one that is outsourced to clinicians outside the community.

Last week’s Mycopreneur Podcast episode featured Shane Schoolman and Michael Heim from Mycolove.

Mycolove is a vertically-integrated mushroom farm and purveyor of ultra premium mushroom extracts produced via ultrasonic extraction - using sound waves to extract the active compounds in functional mushrooms while preserving the integrity of the compounds in the process.

The duo dropped a phenomenal amount of actionable and cutting edge intel across a number of different domains relevant to mushroom entrepreneurship, and also had a mobile myco lab at the world-famous Telluride Mushroom Festival this past weekend. Ceck out the episode below if you haven’t had a chance to listen yet.

Thanks for checking out the Mycopreneur Incubator Newsletter and please hit me with any feedback you may have related to the newsletter / incubator / other areas of interest.

If you would like to sponsor a forthcoming Mycopreneur Incubator for $100, please reply to this email.

These events are currently cost-free, but if anyone would like to offer a donation of $10 - $15, I’d be happy to receive it.

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See you all on Wednesday at 6 pm EST / 3 pm PST

Dennis