---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001641172-25-003810"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001691936"
company_name: "STRYVE FOODS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-04-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T16:13:50.512044+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stryve Foods issues $1.1M in convertible notes at 12% to fund working capital

## Summary
- Issued $1.1M unsecured convertible notes on Apr 7-9, 2025; $0.6M to a related party.
- Notes carry 10% original issue discount and 12% annual interest; monthly interest payments begin May 7, 2025.
- Maturity triggered by receipt of $1M+ ERC from IRS, $6M+ equity financing, or 9 months from funding.
- Lenders may convert principal and interest on same terms as other investors in a $6M+ equity financing.
- Proceeds used for inventory growth, working capital, and general operations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-003810
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001691936
- company_name: STRYVE FOODS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-04-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1691936/000164117225003810/0001641172-25-003810-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1691936/000164117225003810/form8-k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001641172-25-003810.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  STRYVE FOODS, INC. incurred convertible notes of $1.1 million with select accredited investors at 12% maturing the earlier of (i) three (3) days after the Company receives $1 million or more from its Employee Retention Tax Credit, (ii) the date the Company sells $6 milli.
  - Instrument: convertible notes
  - Principal: $1.1 million
  - Counterparty: select accredited investors
  - Rate: 12%
  - Maturity: the earlier of (i) three (3) days after the Company receives $1 million or more from its Employee Retention Tax Credit, (ii) the date the Company sells $6 milli
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On April 7, 2025 and April 9, 2025, Stryve Foods, Inc. (the “Company”) issued an aggregate of $1.1 million in principal amount of unsecured convertible promissory notes (the “Notes”) to select accredited investors
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1691936/000164117225003810/0001641172-25-003810-index.htm

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