Thibaut Scola

Co-Founder, Fruition Sciences · 1 appearance on the record.

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Scholasch holds a Ph.D. in viticulture from Montpellier SupAgro and co-founded Fruition Sciences, which provides sap-flow sensors and analytics to optimize vineyard irrigation. He also established the annual Vintage Report conference, bringing together winemakers and scientists to discuss viticultural research and climate adaptation.

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Scola: AgTech Development Is Much Easier in California Than in Europe

“So as a matter of fact, for us, it's much easier to develop our ideas in California, Which has a culture of a young society ready to embrace new technologies compared to the old world like France or Italy or Portugal.”

Thibaut Scola Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:47 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm

Insight

Scola: Modern farming data analysis is primitive as 17th-century medicine

“Well, in farming, I feel because we haven't really value the meaning of such data, it's a little bit like medicine in the 17th century, where when you have a problem, you Gonna get a bleeding and hopefully it's gonna cut it off.”

Thibaut Scola Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:03 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm

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Scola: Vineyard tech prefigures the future of agriculture under climate change

“So it prefigures a little bit what could become the future of agriculture as land aridity and global warming keeps making the land a bit more tough on the plant.”

Thibaut Scola Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:25 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm

Insight

Scola: Agricultural cloud analytics requires crop-specific plant intelligence to help farmers

“So there is an opportunity from running analytics on whatever information is on the cloud. The issue is what parameters is the most relevant to assess the specific plant needs and plant needs are different for different crops. So there is a lot of work that th…”

Thibaut Scola Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:24 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm

Insight

Scola: Sap flow monitoring isolates true water stress from other resource deficits

“By diagnosing the water flow, you can sense when the plant is actually in need of water, and if the need gets too severely limiting, the plant will underperform. But you can also see if the plant is not in need of water, but still underperforms, you can then p…”

Thibaut Scola Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:07 a16z Podcast | Data Down on the Farm

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| Data Down on the Farm	Jan 2, 2019	6m

Thibaut Scola

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