Company Profile

BugEater Labs
Profile last edited on: 1/5/2024      CAGE: 7DWL3      UEI: YTVAHL6F5CH1

Business Identifier: Developing a new kind of sustainable protein: Insects as human food
Year Founded
2015
First Award
2016
Latest Award
2016
Program Status
Inactive
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Location Information

151 North 8th Street Unit 500
Lincoln, NE 68508
   (402) 801-2006
   hello@bugeaterfoods.com
   www.bugeaterfoods.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 01
County: Lancaster

Public Profile

BugEater Labs is a product development lab working to create cricket based food products. Organized around creating the future of food, the firm's first products is a cricket based meal supplement protein shake that uses a finely mill cricket powder. The firm has also created, and still researching, a cricket protein enriched rice through a extrusion process that we hope to patent the process and sell. The firm's mission to create healthy, nutritious, great tasting cricket based food products. A basic premsie in planning the firm's future is that the practice of eating insects -- called Entomophagy -- is quite common throughout the world and for thousands of years with many cultures prizing insects as culinary delicacies.

Extent of SBIR involvement

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Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
1-4
Revenue Range
Less than .5M
VC funded?
No
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
N/A

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects

Year Phase Agency Total Amount
2016 1 USDA $100,000
Project Title: Use of nutrient rich insect base to create pasta and rice mimicking food products

Key People / Management

  Kelly Sturek -- Founder and CEO

  Julianne Kopf -- COO

  Alec Wiese