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Today’s episode features Tom Shapland of Tule Technologies and John Gates of CropX. We have a great episode for you talking about Tule’s technology, Tom’s entrepreneurial journey, The decision on both sides for Cropx to acquire Tule, M&A in agtech and integration lesson, and the future of artificial intelligence in agtech.
Tom is the co-founder and CEO of Tule Technologies, which is now part of CropX. As a graduate student at UC Davis, Tom developed the underlying technology that Tule commercialized which is a way to measure water use of crop plants over a broad area. Specifically they measure actual crop evapotranspiration or ET and he’ll talk a lot more about that. He founded Tule in 2013 after finishing his PhD work in this area. He went out and started talking to customers and getting sales early, which you’ll find is an important part of his entrepreneurial journey. Him and his co-founder Jeff LaBarge went the Y Combinator program, which is our second episode this month with a YC alum.
Joining us from CropX is senior vice president and global head of product John Gates. John also has a background in academia. He was a professor of Hydrology at University of Nebraska. He evenutally joined CropMetrics as their Chief Scientist and stayed on with CropX after they acquired CropMetrics a few years ago.
You’ll hear from Tom first about Tule’s technology and trajectory, and then we’ll invite John in to talk about the acquisition and much much more.
FOA 208: Meat Processing Automation with P&P Optica and Fulcrum Global Capital
FOA 207: Veterinarian Mental Health and Wellbeing
FOA 206: Enabling Blockchain Applications in Agriculture
FOA 205: Next Generation Farm Leadership
FOA 204: What Does it Take to Build a Platform?
FOA 203: Livestock Genomics and the Case for Animal Protein
FOA 202: Agribusiness' Role in Sustainability and Food Security
[Bonus] Water Innovation with Matthew Pryor
FOA 201: AgTech Startup Strategy with Matthew Pryor
FOA 200: Drones for Spraying, Seeding, and Pollinating with Rantizo
FOA 199: The Realities of Getting Started in Ranching
FOA 198: Data Solutions for Water Scarcity
FOA 197: Agritech in India
FOA 196: Changing Agriculture with Small Robots
FOA 195: Hacking the Farm with Open Source Technology
FOA 194: Accelerating AgTech Adoption
FOA 193: Indoor Agriculture
FOA 192: Farmers Becoming Food Companies
FOA 191: Investing in AgTech Startups
FOA 190: The World's First Open Source Winery
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