Brendan Carroll

Former Co-Founder & CEO, Skycision · 1 appearance on the record.

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Brendan Carroll co-founded Skycision in 2015, developing a SaaS remote-sensing platform using drone and satellite imagery to identify crop stress and predict yields. The company raised $1.1 million in seed funding and served Napa Valley vineyards before ceasing operations.

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Assertion Supported

Skycision detects crop pests and disease two weeks before human eyes

“And so what happens is we're actually measuring reflectance profiles. And so when those drop rapidly, Many times it can indicate pests or disease about two weeks earlier before the human eye can even detect it.”

Brendan Carroll Jan 15, 2019 ▶ 14:52 1270 Napa Valley Vineyards Use His SaaS Drone Tech To Detect Potential Lower Crop Yield

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

Carroll: Only four companies compete on the cutting edge of drone imaging

“I say that there's probably about three or four companies that are competitive with what we do today. But it's on, it's one of those four in the market that are on the cutting edge.”

Brendan Carroll Jan 15, 2019 ▶ 7:15 1270 Napa Valley Vineyards Use His SaaS Drone Tech To Detect Potential Lower Crop Yield

Insight

Enterprise drone adoption requires professional service networks, not DIY flights

“The problem is because it comes when they really want to use this like an enterprise scientific tool. You have to use the right types of sensors. You have to calibrate. There's certain data collection standards that you have to follow. That's can be painful. A…”

Brendan Carroll Jan 15, 2019 ▶ 13:30 1270 Napa Valley Vineyards Use His SaaS Drone Tech To Detect Potential Lower Crop Yield

Assertion Supported

Skycision detects crop pests and disease two weeks before human eyes

Brendan Carroll Jan 15, 2019 ▶ 14:52 1270 Napa Valley Vineyards Use His SaaS Drone Tech To Detect Potential Lower Crop Yield

Assertion Supported

Satellite imagery resolution is 100 times lower than agricultural drone imagery

“We also leverage satellite imagery on a much, for like much larger acreage scale operations, if you will. But the resolution is a hundred times less, as well as you can, you can't really see the visual imagery at all in most cases. You have cloud cover, atmosp…”

Brendan Carroll Jan 15, 2019 ▶ 15:46 1270 Napa Valley Vineyards Use His SaaS Drone Tech To Detect Potential Lower Crop Yield

Opinion

Precision agriculture requires layered aerial and ground sensing solutions

“And so really kind of a layered aerial plus ground solution is where the industry needs to go and kind of where we're facilitating our direction.”

Brendan Carroll Jan 15, 2019 ▶ 16:24 1270 Napa Valley Vineyards Use His SaaS Drone Tech To Detect Potential Lower Crop Yield

Disclosure

Skycision serves over 200 agricultural operations through 11 enterprise customers

“So we're deployed over 200 different operations through 11 different customers. So several of those are very large channels.”

Brendan Carroll Jan 15, 2019 ▶ 4:49 1270 Napa Valley Vineyards Use His SaaS Drone Tech To Detect Potential Lower Crop Yield

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Skycision claims 25 percent month-over-month growth since January

“So we're starting to see we're seeing 25 month over month growth. Since January.”

Brendan Carroll Jan 15, 2019 ▶ 5:10 1270 Napa Valley Vineyards Use His SaaS Drone Tech To Detect Potential Lower Crop Yield

Disclosure

Half of Skycision's clients come through agricultural channel partners

“And so we have at half of our clientele is basically those kinds of channel types.”

Brendan Carroll Jan 15, 2019 ▶ 12:43 1270 Napa Valley Vineyards Use His SaaS Drone Tech To Detect Potential Lower Crop Yield

Disclosure

Skycision operates with a team of six in its third year

“So right now we're only a full-time team of six. We're in our third year of operation. We started in September of 2015.”

Brendan Carroll Jan 15, 2019 ▶ 3:45 1270 Napa Valley Vineyards Use His SaaS Drone Tech To Detect Potential Lower Crop Yield

Disclosure

Skycision has raised $1.1M in total capital

“We've raised 1.1 million.”

Brendan Carroll Jan 15, 2019 ▶ 16:36 1270 Napa Valley Vineyards Use His SaaS Drone Tech To Detect Potential Lower Crop Yield

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
1270 Napa Valley Vineyards Use His SaaS Drone Tech To Detect Potential Lower Crop Yield	Jan 15, 2019	10m

Brendan Carroll

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