We put the cooler in the beef,
not the beef in the cooler.
A 100-year-old constraint, removed. Harvestasis™ — vascular cold-flush perfusion.
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The Problem
The beef supply chain only works at scale
And it's failing everyone else.
"Get big, or get out."
Earl Butz · U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1971–1976
<8%
Rancher share of the retail dollar
85%
U.S. beef from only 4 packers
33%
Of U.S. beef from just 10 plants
~60K
Cattle dead or injured in transport yearly
Average ranch owner: 70 years old
Smallest U.S. herd since 1951
The system was built for thousand-head feedlots — 80% of America's ranches don't fit
9 of 10 small ranches lose money on operations
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The Constraint
One cooling rule built a 100-year moat
The U.S. consumer demands fresh meat — and that requires rapid, industrial-scale refrigeration.
The biophysics requirement
Get a hot carcass into a very large cooler, very fast: 44.6°F internal in 14 hours. Rapid cooling is the bottleneck.
This single 1950s-era engineering compromise dictates everything downstream:
How ranchers raise and finish cattle
Animal size and finish weight
When ranchers can sell
Who can access the market at all
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."
Charles F. Kettering · Head of Research, General Motors
The constraint must change. Until now — it could not.
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The Solution — Harvestasis™
The cow is the cooler
Instead of cooling carcasses outside-in in giant refrigeration buildings, Harvestasis™ cools from the inside out — using each animal's own vascular system.
Lineage
Adapted from patented, DoD-funded Emergency Preservation & Resuscitation research — battlefield trauma medicine, repurposed for meat processing.
What it does
Precisely controls temperature and biochemistry through the carcass's circulatory system. No refrigeration building. No refrigerated truck. The cooling happens inside the animal, in transit.
Mobile trailer → on the ranch → cold, hide-on carcass → delivered to a local USDA processor. No live transport.
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The Product
Mobile harvest + stabilization platform
Harvestasis™ — four capabilities in one trailer.
01 · Vascular cold-flush perfusion
Rapid internal cooling via the circulatory system.
02 · Thermal & biochemical control
Cellular-level meat science during transport — more tender meat, fat redistributes to premium cuts.
03 · Continuous digital logging
Real-time temperature, pH, and microbial monitoring — exceeds the conventional standard.
04 · Just-in-time supply
Cold, hide-on carcass delivered to local processors. No plant redesign. Drop-in.
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Who keeps the beef dollar
Premium Dollars Stay Local
Centralized processing extracts value from rural economies.
Prokarna reverses that.
So ranch finishing and local processing deliver premium prices to those closest to the land.
10%→51%
Combined rancher + small-processor margin
Share of the retail beef dollar
The system was built for thousand-head feedlots 80% of America's ranches don't fit.
Same cow. Premium product. Fundamentally better profit distribution.
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Margin per head
$608 to $3,222 Same animal
Combined rancher + small-processor margin, today versus with Prokarna.
Multiple fleets · Licensing conversations · International
All financial projections are management estimates based on per-head throughput modeling and comparable small-processor operating economics. Full model available in data room.
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Team
Built for execution
Science, regulatory, and capital — all in one room.
CEO
James Hansen
Co-inventor · Securities pioneer · FAA-regulated airline operator · Architect of a $1B urban TIF bond. Three decades of regulatory navigation and capital formation.
Built & operated USDA small plants · HACCP expert · Leading MPPEP grant application · Top consultant for small-processor compliance, with scores of processor relationships.
Counsel · Advisors · Partners
Legal: Dax Hansen, Perkins Coie Advisors: James Clement III (Earth Optics) · David Cary (Impact Investment) · Jeffrey Geider (TCU Ranch Mgmt Institute) · Richard Lackey (World Food Bank) Partner: Texas Christian University — applied for a $9.93M USDA AFRI grant
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The Ask · Execution Capital
$250K. Now. $7.5M cap.
Every dollar matched to a milestone.
$250K
YC SAFE · $7.5M valuation cap
Use of funds
Equipment — pumps, piping, tanks, sensors$55K
Engineering & prototype finalization$60K
12-month operating runway$65K
IP, legal, grants, regulatory, sales$70K
First 30–60 Day Unlocks
→ Bovine validation — July 15, 2026
→ One named processor LOI
→ Five MPPEP applications filed
→ HACCP plan submission
Post-Money SAFE · $7.5M valuation cap · YC standard form. Full term sheet and data room available upon request. This presentation is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell securities.
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The Opportunity
The build starts now
"Most farmers are locked into a system they didn't choose and don't like."
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. · Secretary of Health & Human Services
"Our health is directly related to our food, and the quality of our food is directly related to and dependent on the quality of our soils."
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. · American Regeneration Conference, May 2026