Exceptional Performance,
From the Extremes into Everyday Use
The Fynder Group turns biology built to survive extremes into real-world breakthroughs in food, pharmaceuticals, and materials.
Three Businesses, Shared Science
The Fynder Group builds businesses inspired by extremophile biology, supported by shared capabilities in R&D, fermentation, and manufacturing that travel across markets and problems.
Fynder Ingredients
A specialty ingredient company redrawing the line between nutrition and functionality. We build protein and fiber solutions that deliver greater nutritional density, better taste and texture, and cleaner labels for the global food and beverage supply chain.1
FynderBio
A biopharmaceutical company developing a new way to make and deliver biologic medicines. We use a food-grade extremophile fungus as both the production system and the oral delivery vehicle, in a platform designed to make complex therapies simpler to manufacture, distribute, and take.2
Hydefy
A bio-based performance material redefining what durable materials can feel like. Hydefy delivers the durability of industrial composites with the look and drape of traditional leather, bringing premium aesthetics to automotive, upholstery, footwear, and other demanding applications.3
It Started at the Extremes
The Fynder Group emerged from NASA-funded research in Yellowstone National Park studying extremophiles: microorganisms that thrive where most life reaches its limits. At these extremes, biology revealed a different standard for performance. Inspired by this biology, we rethink what is possible in food, pharmaceuticals, and materials.
What Drives Us
Three beliefs guide our work.
Product requirements are often just technology limits.
Many accepted product tradeoffs aren’t inherent to the product. They’re consequences of the technologies used to make it. And over time, those limits get mistaken for product requirements. We look for constraints others have stopped questioning and develop technology to break them.
The best technology disappears into the product.
The value of a technology is in what it changes about the product, not in how novel the technology itself may be. We start with the product and work backward, developing the technology around what the product needs to do.
A breakthrough matters when it becomes ordinary.
Something can work brilliantly in a lab and still change very little. Impact comes when it can be made reliably, adopted at scale, and become part of everyday use. We design with manufacturing and adoption in mind from the start, building on established infrastructure wherever possible.
Our Mission
Our mission is to bring unusual performance into everyday life.
We bring capabilities first revealed at biological extremes into the products that nourish us, heal us, and shape the world around us.
Unusual Made Ordinary.
1 Fynder Ingredients’ products and their functional and nutritional properties are based on internal research and development-stage testing. These statements have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Characteristics may vary by formulation and application.
2 FynderBio is an early-stage research and development platform. No FynderBio product has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or any other regulatory authority. Nothing on this website is a statement of the safety or efficacy of any product or a claim that any product is available for sale or use.
3 Hydefy performance and “bio-based” characteristics are based on testing of current material formulations under specified methods and conditions (including ISO and ASTM methods, where applicable). Actual performance may vary by formulation, application, and end use. Comparisons to leather or industrial composites refer to specific tested attributes, not all characteristics.