Michiel
Co-founder
During the day, you’ll find Michiel managing sales, legal, production and everything-related stuff. “At night?” one might ask? You're dealing with a notorious pancake maker, and never without good music.
The founder’s journey
From journalist to Kriketeer
In the summer of 2016, Michiel, who was then working as an agricultural & food journalist, visited an urban cricket farm in the heart of Brussels. The farm was set up by 3 young and adventurous engineers, who told him all about the sustainable superpowers crickets possess, and how incredibly nutritious they are. Why then, Michiel wondered, can’t I find them anywhere in the supermarket? Why does no one know about crickets and how amazing they are?
Enter Anneleen
Enter Anneleen, Michiel’s sister, who would be the perfect partner in crime to bring this idea to life. There was a lot of thinking, talking and – even more – baking in the kitchen: what would the perfect cricket food look like? We came up with a recipe for a cricket-based cereal bar and set up a crowdfunding campaign to tell the whole world about the birth of KRIKET, Belgium’s first cricket bar.
Things were getting real!
The crowd loved it! Our campaign was a whopping success, and we decided to totally go for it. If so many people like our hobby cook prototypes, there’s a whole world to conquer out there, we thought. We reached out to smart food technology students to help us optimize our recipe, learnt all about packaging and food safety, and officially launched KRIKET in September 2018, when the first KRIKET bars hit the shelves.
How it’s going now
Since then, we set up a whole lot of new collaborations. First in Belgium, and then across borders, all the way to Canada, Spain and Lithuania. We started building a fantastic ecosystem of partners who share our beliefs in a sustainable food system. And ever since that first baking session, we just kept on going.
Anneleen
Co-founder
Doing it all? Well, yes, she's on top of that. Anneleen’s days range from managing e-commerce, marketing and socials to HR,… The list just goes on and on. How she manages to get some yoga, music classes and jogging in there is really just a big mystery to most of us.
