About Mycelial
We're building Mycelial to accelerate the emergence of a resilient and regenerative global economy. Our theory of change is simple: we need to activate ecosystems of people around the world working on different facets of this challenge—whether doughnut economics, ecological regeneration, or community resilience—and enable them to collaborate and cooperate at scale.
The Mycelial platform represents a decade of learning about how to activate virtual communities in ways that catalyze meaningful collaboration. Through our work with the Global Regeneration CoLab, we discovered what existing tools couldn't provide—and built something better.
What We've Learned About Thriving Ecosystems
The most generative ecosystems share key characteristics: high diversity, abundant serendipitous connections, member-initiated activity, and low friction for participation. But time is scarce and people are busy. To truly activate a community, you need to:
- →Meet people where they are – Don't make them come to you
- →Provide guided pathways – People need support to activate the ecosystem around their initiatives and interests
- →Facilitate meaningful connections – The magic happens through relationships, not just transactions
- →Curate thoughtfully – Who's in the network matters
- →Enable self-organization through facilitation – Paradoxically, emergent collaboration requires structure
Our Approach
These principles translate into platform design that:
- •Offers diverse engagement opportunities for different participation styles
- •Cultivates and supports distributed leadership to run events and working groups
- •Maintains intentional boundaries around membership
- •Actively supports the building of meaningful relationships
- •Makes coordination effortless rather than effortful
Why We Built Mycelial
Our prototype for the Global Regeneration CoLab cobbled together multiple existing tools, revealing the fundamental limitations of platforms that weren't designed for generative ecosystems. We took those learnings and built something special.
Ready to activate your ecosystem? Mycelial makes it simple to launch, build and scale extended impact networks that actually work. Let's talk.