Burcon NutraScience

A New World in Plant-based Protein

Corporate Presentation - February 2024

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Our Mission

To improve the health and wellness of consumers through the discovery and development of sustainable, functional and renewable plant-based proteins for the global food and beverage industries.

Burcon 2.0 Strategic Imperatives

Identify

Closer to

More Influence Over

Additional

Customers and

Manufacturing

Revenue Streams

End Markets

Leverage Burcon's assets, IP,

Relationships with

Properly implement and

expertise and capabilities to

customers and end markets

optimize Burcon's unique

generate revenue

to better serve food

protein processing

ingredient industry

technologies

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Burcon 2.0 Snapshot

Organization

  • Founded 1998
  • 20+ years plant protein innovation
  • New leadership new capabilities
  • Extensive global expertise in food and specialty protein
  • Decades of experience in protein dev and manufacturing
  • Pure-playplant protein company with portfolio of market- disrupting tech

Financials

  • Revenue - CAD $184,000 (Sept 30)
  • Cash - CAD $2.2 million (Sept 30)
  • Debt - CAD $5.0 million (Matures July 2025)
  • Annual burn - CAD ~$4.8 million
  • Share price - $0.195 (Feb 1)
  • Shares out. / diluted - 121MM / 144MM
  • Market cap - CAD $23 million (Feb 1)
  • Insider holdings - ~30%
  • Expense reduction - 15-20%(ttm)

Products & Patents

  • Best-in-classdifferentiated proteins
    • soy / pea / canola / hemp / sunflower
  • Multiple growth drivers - validated and scale-up ready
  • Proprietary plant protein technology platform

Unmatched purity (>90%)

Exceptional taste

Superior functionality

Excellent texture & color

Go-to-Market Strategy

  • Hemp launch in July 2023 as first proof point
  • Customer expressions of interest
  • Signed Commercial Production Agreement
  • Revenue from hemp sales starting early 2024
  • Launch high value canola, pea or sunflower proteins in 2024
  • Capital-lightpartnership to achieve speed-to-market

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Market Growth Present Opportunities

Market Growth & Food Ecosystem Present Opportunities

Plant-based foods market, US Retail 2019 - 2022

Dollar Sales

10

$7.5 B

$8.0 B

($billions)

$7.1 B

+7%

+28%

+6%

$5.5 B

Sales

5

Dollar

3-year growth: +44%

3-year CAGR: +13%

0

2019

2020

2021

2022

Consumer Shift

U.S. plant-based food retail in 2022 is worth $8 billion, with dollar sales up 7% from 2021

Vibrant Food Ecosystem

Investments in alternative proteins surpass $14B, of which $11.2B was raised in last 3 years

Source: GFI 2022 State of the Industry Report.

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Burcon Market Opportunity

Addressable Market

Commercial Readiness

Value

TAM

Market

Burcon Opp

In Dev

Pilot-scale

Ready for

Proven at

Proposition

Growth %

(USD)

Validated

Scale-Up

Commercial Scale

Pea

$2.9B2

11.9%

$70-116MM

CAGR2

Canola

$2.2B4

7.8%

$58-96MM

CAGR3

Soy

$4.5B1

4.6%

$79-165MM

CAGR1

Sunflower

$21.3B5

6.2%

$215-392MM

CAGR3

Hemp

$6.4B5

6.2%

$68-113MM

Q1 2024

CAGR3

Upcycled

$2.2B4

7.8% 3

$22-44MM

Proteins

CAGR

1. Allied Market Research: Soy Protein Isolate Market by Application (Food, Beverages, Medicine, Others), by Form (Organic, Conventional), by End User (Commercial, Residential): Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2021-2031

2. MarketsandMarkets: Pea Protein Market by Type (Isolate, Concentrate, and Textured), Form (Dry and Wet), Source (Yellow Split Pea, Lentils and ChickPea), Application, and Region (North America, Europe, APAC, South America and ROW) - Global Forecast to 2027

3. Fact.MR: Plant Protein Ingredients Market by Product Type (Soy Protein, Wheat Protein, Pea Protein, Rice Protein), By Form (Isolates, Concentrates & Others), By Application (Sports Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition, Infant Nutrition) & By Region - Global Market Insights 2023 to 2033

4. Reports and Data: Canola Protein Market By Product (Protein Isolates, Protein Concentrates, Others), By Type (Powder, Paste), By End-Use Verticals (Food and Beverages, Nutraceuticals and Feed Grade, Personal Care, Pharmaceuticals, Others), Forecasts To 2027

5. Internal estimated market sizes based on data from USDA, third-party reports, and internal estimates, inclusive of current and future product opportunities.

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Capital Light Business Model

Sell Technology

Expand Discovery

Upcycled Proteins

Capacity

Build

Partner

License

Hemp Protein

R&D

Fava Protein

Value Value

Capture Creation

Pea Protein

Canola Protein

Test

Refine/

Market

Optimize

Commercial

Sunflower Proteins

Validation

Soy Protein

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Hempseed Protein Roadmap

Burcon Partners with HPS

  • Pioneer in hempseed & plant-based ingredients
  • Global network of customers
  • Access to growers & raw material supply

Hemp Launch /

Market

Development

  • Soft launch at IFT FIRST
  • Sample production, data sharing and application dev
  • Customers ready for commercial production off-take
  • Customers in late- stage product development

Commercial

Production/ Process

Validation

  • Signed production agreement with co-man
  • Commercial production starts early 2024
    • 100+ sampling and testing
    • 20+ pilot testing stage
    • 5+ in late-stage product development and trials
  • Tracking >$2.0 million in customer interest for 2024

Commercial

Partnership

Agreement

Commercial

Production &

Sales

Capacity Expansion

Capital-light / Partner Model

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