Prokarna: The Rural Beef Coordination Layer

Prokarna · Two-minute investor briefing

It's Not a Capacity Problem.
It's a Supply Problem.

Regulation makes it nearly impossible for small beef processors to efficiently fill customer orders.

$5.3B

The cost of lost business due to supply logistics.

What Prokarna Is

Supply,
On Demand

A coordination layer between cattle supply -
and processor demand
The right cattle, at the right plant, at the right time.
No one else can do this.

What makes it physically possible

Put the cooler in the beef, not the beef in the cooler.

~~Live-animal transport~~ • ~~Holding pens~~ • ~~Cold-chain~~

Harvestasis™ — vascular cold-flush perfusion.

Fill the idle plants

15 → 28 Head/Day
Same Plant

"Supply-on-demand" fill the plants with no new slaughter infrastructure. Prokarna's CAPEX is 1/15th of a plant expansion.

~$13.8M

Annual processor margin / partner plant

≈ breakeven today → ~$13.8M at full premium throughput · $1,966/head — a ceiling it ramps into

Per-head margin — Weaned calf vs. Prokarna local beef

Cow-Calf Packaged Beef

Ranch finished vs. just-weaned: — combined rancher-processor margin gains $608 → $3,222 (5.3X).
Rural share of beef $ rises 10% → 51%.

Why It's Real

Validation Underway
Regulation Mapped

TCU applied for a $9.93M — USDA AFRI grant. Texas Christian University Institute of Ranch Management — academic validation partner, center of excellence.
Comes from Department of Defense-funded research Adapted from patented battlefield Emergency Preservation & Resuscitation research. CSO Dr. Lyn Yaffe — Johns Hopkins, Navy Medical R&D, 50+ publications, 13 patents.
Inside existing USDA policy. Runs as a mobile slaughter unit integrating at hide removal, no plant redesign. Novel steps clear FSIS's standard new-technology review, a precedented path: vascular perfusion is already FSIS-accepted via Rinse & Chill.
Built for execution. Year 2 revenue $7.1M at positive EBITDA — $3.4M.
Bovine validation: Late July 2026. Live-cattle proof of cooling speed, mechanism, meat safety, and co-product economics — the data event that reprices this round.

Go Deeper

Own Coordination
Not Cattle

Return the margin to the land. The build starts now.
Two ways to go deeper — no pitch, just a conversation.

James Hansen · CEO · Dr. Lyn Yaffe · CSO · Chris Fuller · Sr. Director, Regulatory & Field Integration

james@prokarna.com · 503.307.3164

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Shared only with parties who have a substantial pre-existing relationship with Prokarna. Figures are management estimates drawn from the Prokarna Margin Comparison Model and related analyses; they are forward-looking and not guaranteed. This material is informational only and is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities; any offering is made solely through definitive offering documents.