Founder
✦Eben Bayer
Co-founder and CEO of Ecovative Design and MyForest Foods. 18 years building physical technologies that compete on unit economics and scale through manufacturing learning curves.
Current Work
Ecovative Design
Co-founded 2007. Mycelium materials platform with 40+ patents worldwide and $26M+ in federal research funding from DARPA, NSF, USDA, and EPA. Built bio-based manufacturing from an RPI lab to 10M+ lbs annual throughput.
ecovative.comMyForest Foods
Launched 2020. MyBacon is the #1 velocity plant-based breakfast meat, now in 3,300+ stores nationwide. Direct margin positive with 50% quarter-over-quarter growth in 2025.
myforestfoods.comSundial
Precise, reversible stratospheric shade: measured in public, paid for through avoided peak demand. The same playbook: find the trim tab, prove unit economics, scale with manufacturing curves.
Two years into technical evaluation across balloon, glider, and ribbon architectures, building the economic models to understand what could actually work.
Looking to Connect
Looking to meet people working in atmospheric science, aerospace engineering (especially drones), flight autonomy, grid economics, and governance.