We’re reimagining how the world makes essential ingredients—using the power of fungi to build a resilient, sustainable future. By making our essential proteins in fungi rather than animals we can use much less energy, land and water.

HyphaPro uses advanced precision fermentation to produce animal-free proteins—molecularly identical, highly functional, and scaled for Net Zero supply chains.

🌍 Kind to the Planet

The traditional way of making protein is heavy on our Earth. We’ve swapped vast acres of land and billions of gallons of water for precise, efficient fermentation. Our process is designed to slash carbon emissions and help the UK reach its Net Zero goals without compromising on quality.

🐓 Kind to Animals

We believe you shouldn’t need a farm to make functional proteins. By using our high-performing fungal strains, we can produce ingredients like egg-white protein that are molecularly identical to the real thing—but completely animal-free. No hens, no cages, just pure science.

🤝 Kind to Business

Current animal-based supply chains are vulnerable to disturbances through animal diseases and freak weather. In contrast, fungi can supply protein of more consistent quality and at prices much less prone to fluctuations. Our process can deliver proteins of superior quality, free of hormones and antibiotics.

We are additionally democratising this forward facing industry by making our elite fungal strains and processes accessible to other innovators. Whether you’re a start-up or an established manufacturer, we’re here to help you bring sustainable products to market faster.

Rooted in the South West. Scaling for the World. Based at the Exeter Science Park, HyphaPro is proud to be part of the UK’s bio-revolution. We are scientists and visionaries dedicated to leading the world in making next generation fungal factories a reality in the UK.

Join the Fungal Revolution. Whether you’re a student, a partner, or just curious about the future of food, we’d love to connect. Let’s build a hopeful forward facing industry at the heart of the South West together!

Our Vision is to leverage our expertise in precise fungal breeding to create improved production pipelines for foodstuffs and other products useful to man. We foresee a world where these products might be produced reliably anywhere in a process much akin to brewing and with a far reduced environmental footprint compared to farming-based paths.

Precision fermentation is poised to become a major contributor to meeting global protein demand over the coming decade.

Fungal fermentation is a proven technology used for many years now for high value enzymes such as chymosin . There is a real opportunity to use new advanced fungal breeding techniques to domesticate fungi for the benefit of mankind as we have done extensively already for plants and animal. Our protein pipelines tackle major sustainability challenges and promise superior products that at scale will be cheaper than traditional routes.

The Science 🧬

We domesticate our strains by creating changes at the level of DNA that make them behave predictably and optimise the product yield in our fermentations. Our breeding process uses state-of-the-art technology capable of extreme precision and predictable outcomes. The founder, Andy, is a world expert in this technology. As an example of the precision, one letter in the chromosome sequence can be selected an replaced by another one. In order to produce an animal protein, an animal gene is introduced into our ‘tamed’ strains and, because by the nature fungi are masters at secretion (this allows the process of digesting materials outside of their cells), the protein that the DNA ‘codes’ for is easily recovered from the ‘soup’ that our strains and grown in.

Team – Andy Foster (CEO and founder)

Andy Foster gained his PhD from the University of Exeter in 2000 and has worked in both academic and commercial settings including Exeter University, TSL (The Sainsbury Laboratory) at Norwich, and Betterdairy in East London. He has conduced world leading research in molecular genetics of fungi. He is an expert in next generation Crispr-based fungal strain engineering.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-foster-61040995/?originalSubdomain=uk

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=w7wP8VYAAAAJ&hl=en

Board members

Thomas John Foster (Director)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-foster-4a910532

Grant Foster PhD (Director)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-foster-9686ab16

NEWS

Coffee & Connect at Exeter Science Park – May

08:30am – 09:30am,  

19 May 2026

The Atrium, Exeter Science Park

Meet Andy Foster from HyphaPro Ltd, a biotechnology start-up company aiming to provide alternative paths to the production of proteins.

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