Uncaged Innovations is a biomaterials start-up developing next-generation performance materials to replace bovine and exotic leather. As a firm, Uncaged Innovations is building on groundwork laid by the entiity called Material Innovation Initiative involving many of the same personnel - the latter expediting innovation of sustainable alternatives to animals materials. From making leather out of mushrooms to growing silk in a lab, the nextgen materials industry is no longer the pleather of the 80s. principals of the firm work with entrepreneurs, scientists, brands, and investors to make using animals as materials a way of the past.