When the planet’s choking on waste and the construction industry is burning through raw materials like it’s still 1985, someone’s gotta get their hands dirty and reengineer the game. That someone is KC McCreery, and the company is Fiber Global, a climate-tech powerhouse turning your trashed cardboard into high-performance building panels cleaner than a surgeon’s scalpel. This isn’t sustainability theater, this is industrial alchemy with a purpose.
Let’s break it down: Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Lafayette, Indiana, Fiber Global didn’t tiptoe out of stealth, they kicked the damn door down last September. Their flagship product, Forged Fiber Board, is what happens when advanced engineering meets waste streams society forgot existed. Picture this: zero VOCs, formaldehyde-free, certified by UL GREENGUARD GOLD, and tougher than your uncle’s old plywood shed that somehow survived three tornado seasons. Except this time, it’s sustainably sourced and precision-made to outperform legacy panels in furniture, modular homes, and commercial builds.
And now, the real flex, Fiber Global just closed a $20 million Series A with DBL Partners leading the charge. That’s right. Ira Ehrenpreis, the man who’s been in the Tesla boardroom and knows a real climate moonshot when he sees one, isn’t just investing, he’s joining the board. If you know Ira’s track record, you know he’s not here for small wins. He’s here because KC McCreery and team are swinging for carbon negative materials in a sector responsible for over 10% of global emissions. This isn’t a bet, it’s a signal.
And let’s not forget the early believers. The seed round came courtesy of Hat-Trick Capital, Outer, Peyman Majd, Amrita Tahiliani, Carlos Soto, and Mark Schwenker, names you don’t casually scroll past if you know what time it is. Now Fiber Global’s 50,000 ft² facility in Lafayette is humming, scaling modular production lines, and gearing up for national expansion. Southwestern and Northeastern markets, get ready, you’re next.
Every panel that rolls off their line is proof that you don’t need to strip a forest or pollute a river to build strong. Just vision, grit, and the kind of ops muscle that KC McCreery earned in the trenches at Tesla, Romeo Power, and Subaru of Indiana Automotive. With Chris Sullivan, Andrew Zichek, Daren Pierse, and Carlos Soto rounding out a leadership team that blends operational firepower with real-world sustainability chops, this squad’s not just running a company, they’re constructing a movement.
There’s a lesson here. Innovation doesn’t always look like a shiny app or some AI talking to itself in a lab. Sometimes it looks like a panel. Forged from fiber. Backed by science. Built for impact.
