Morgan Wyatt, PhD

Morgan holds an Honours Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Toronto and a Master of Research in Biomedical Research from Imperial College London. He then became his PhD supervisor's first graduate student in Chemical Biology at McMaster University, which meant writing the grants that got the lab off the ground before there was a lab to speak of. That work became a research career, and it later shaped how he writes funding applications.

Building and Selling Greenlid

After his PhD, Morgan co-founded Greenlid in 2014 with his brother Jackson Wyatt. The sustainable products company started with a compostable compost bin and went on to make compostable tableware and BioTrap, a biodegradable mosquito trap. He grew it from a single product to 100+ SKUs in 10,000+ stores, made five appearances on CBC's Dragons' Den and closed a deal with Dave Chilton and Arlene Dickinson. Along the way he raised more than $5MM in government funding to reshore manufacturing from China, expand R&D and develop new products. Greenlid had an eight-figure exit in 2021.

Founding Fundspoke

Morgan started Fundspoke because the CEOs he was advising kept finding the right programs and then never doing the paperwork. He has since put 10,000+ hours into hands-on AI development, building Fundspoke's own technology, and has served as an individual member of Anthropic's Product Advisory Group for Financial Services since December 2024. He leads the senior team of PhDs, CPAs and former founders who manage funding projects for established Canadian companies, from the first call through the final claim.

Other Ventures

Alongside Fundspoke, Morgan co-founded ReSolaros with Dave Chilton, a venture developing a process to recover higher-purity silicon glass from end-of-life solar panels. The work is currently inactive as Morgan's focus has shifted to Fundspoke.

Morgan's doctoral research in chemical biology at McMaster produced 11 peer-reviewed papers, including first-author work in Science and co-first-author work in Nature Chemical Biology. He is an inventor on 55+ patents and filings worldwide, counting national filings of the same inventions.

1. Wyatt MA, Wang W, Roux CM, Beasley FC, Heinrichs DE, Dunman PM, Magarvey NA. Staphylococcus aureus nonribosomal peptide secondary metabolites regulate virulence. Science. 2010;329(5989):294-6. doi.org/10.1126/science.1188888
2. Johnston CW*, Wyatt MA*, Li X, Ibrahim A, Shuster J, Southam G, Magarvey NA. Gold biomineralization by a metallophore from a gold-associated microbe. Nat Chem Biol. 2013;9(4):241-3. doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.1179
3. Johnston CW, Skinnider MA, Wyatt MA, Li X, Ranieri MR, Yang L, Zechel DL, Ma B, Magarvey NA. An automated Genomes-to-Natural Products platform (GNP) for the discovery of modular natural products. Nat Commun. 2015;6:8421. doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9421
4. Skinnider MA, Dejong CA, Rees PN, Johnston CW, Li H, Webster AL, Wyatt MA, Magarvey NA. Genomes to natural products PRediction Informatics for Secondary Metabolomes (PRISM). Nucleic Acids Res. 2015;43(20):9645-62. doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv1012
5. Rochfort S, Wyatt MA, Liebeke M, Southam AD, Viant MR, Bundy JG. Aromatic metabolites from the coelomic fluid of Eisenia earthworm species. Eur J Soil Biol. 2017;78:17-19. doi.org/10.1016/j.ejsobi.2016.11.008
6. Wyatt MA, Johnston CW, Magarvey NA. Gold nanoparticle formation via microbial metallophore chemistries. J Nanopart Res. 2014;16(3):2212. doi.org/10.1007/s11051-013-2212-2
7. Johnston CW, Connaty AD, Skinnider MA, Li Y, Grunwald A, Wyatt MA, Kerr RG, Magarvey NA. Informatic search strategies to discover analogues and variants of natural product archetypes. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol. 2016;43(2-3):293-8. doi.org/10.1007/s10295-015-1675-9
8. Wyatt MA, Mok MC, Junop M, Magarvey NA. Heterologous expression and structural characterisation of a pyrazinone natural product assembly line. ChemBioChem. 2012;13(16):2408-15. doi.org/10.1002/cbic.201200340
9. Wyatt MA, Ahilan Y, Argyropoulos P, Boddy CN, Magarvey NA, Harrison PH. Biosynthesis of ebelactone A: isotopic tracer, advanced precursor and genetic studies reveal a thioesterase-independent cyclization to give a polyketide β-lactone. J Antibiot (Tokyo). 2013;66(7):421-30. doi.org/10.1038/ja.2013.48
10. Wyatt MA, Lee J, Ahilan Y, Magarvey NA. Bioinformatic evaluation of the secondary metabolism of antistaphylococcal environmental bacterial isolates. Can J Microbiol. 2013;59(7):465-71. doi.org/10.1139/cjm-2013-0016
11. Wyatt MA, Magarvey NA. Optimizing dimodular nonribosomal peptide synthetases and natural dipeptides in an Escherichia coli heterologous host. Biochem Cell Biol. 2013;91(4):203-8. doi.org/10.1139/bcb-2012-0097

* Equal contribution. Citation count from OpenAlex, November 2026.