Uncaged Innovations’ Elevate Named as One of Time’s Best Inventions of 2025
Golden Seeds company, Uncaged Innovations, is reinventing plant-based leather alternatives by starting with the very foundation of animal leather: collagen. The result is Elevate, a material made with plant proteins from grains like wheat, soy, rice, and other agricultural byproducts that mimic collagen’s fibril structure; it looks, feels, and performs like traditional leather while “emitting 95% fewer greenhouse gases, using 89% less water, and 71% less energy” to make. Read more here.