Podcast appearances and mentions of ellie symes

In this episode, Allison interviews Ellie Symes, former founder of The Bee Corp, an ag-tech company focused on solving the honeybee health crisis. After leading the company for a decade, Ellie opens up about the emotional process of selling her business, sharing the highs and lows of entrepreneurship. They dive into the mental toll of running a company, the importance of therapy, and how Ellie has transitioned into her new role at the McKinney Family Foundation, where she's now working on funding climate solutions in Indiana. It's an honest discussion about mental health, burnout, and the sometimes harsh realities of being a founder.  

In this episode of “The Business of Blueberries,” host Kasey Cronquist, president of the USHBC and the North American Blueberry Council (NABC), is joined by Ellie Symes, CEO of The Bee Corp, and Luis De La Garza, general manager of Royal Oaks Farms, to discuss technology that helps beekeepers maximize pollination revenue per hive, and aids growers in reducing costs and optimizing pollination quality. “Our growers use [Verifli] to make sure they're good to go for pollination and to make sure they're getting what they paid for in the hives that they rent. …We're also interested in helping growers to determine how many hives they need per acre and what is their optimum. How far can they decrease this cost and still get good strong berries? ” - Ellie Symes   “This technology is not invasive, you can just scan the [beehive box] and get a very good idea of the health of the colony. ” - Luis De La Garza   Topics covered include: How The Bee Corp was founded by Ellie Symes. The function of The Bee Corp's proprietary software, Verifli, and how it helps improve pollination efficiencies. De La Garza's experience with Verifli on his berry farms in Watsonville, California. Advice from Symes on how to best maximize the pollination window. Crop Report The Blueberry Crop Report is an update on crop conditions and markets throughout North and South America. In this episode, you'll hear from Andres Armstrong in Chile and Luis Vegas in Peru. This was recorded on February 9, 2022.   Marketing Boost Public relations is a key component in USHBC's marketing mix. On this week's Marketing Boost, USHBC/NABC Vice President of Marketing and Communications Jennifer Sparks discusses the latest health research and how that was parlayed into a successful PR campaign.

Today's show features information from Bee Corp's Ellie Symes talk almond pollination for 2022 and how infrared tech can be used in place of manual hive health inspections.   Supporting the People who Support Agriculture Thank you to our sponsors who make it possible to get you your daily news. Please feel free to visit their websites. Musco Family Olive Co. –www.olives.com/milliontrees The California Walnut Board – https://walnuts.org/ Soil and Crop – https://mysoilandcrop.com/  TriCal, Inc. – https://www.trical.com/ Phycoterra -https://phycoterra.com/ Beeflow - https://www.beeflowforalmonds.com/  

For crops like almonds, bee pollination is a critical first step in their growing season. Now, agtech is making it possible for growers to know what beehive health looks like ahead of that first step, allowing for agility and better decision-making. On this week's episode, Mitch Frazier of AgriNovus is joined by CEO of The Bee Corp, Ellie Symes. They dive into her co-founding of The Bee Corp, the launch of their agtech solution Verifli, being a Forbes Under 30 Lister and what it means to be an agbioscience entrepreneur in Indiana.

In today's episode, hear from Bee Corp's Ellie Symes about pollination, infrared hive imaging and state/global research on hive health and strength. Supporting the People who Support Agriculture Thank you to our sponsors who make it possible to get you your daily news. Please feel free to visit their websites. Musco Family Olive Co. –www.olives.com/milliontrees The California Walnut Board – https://walnuts.org/ Soil and Crop – https://mysoilandcrop.com/  TriCal, Inc. – https://www.trical.com/ Phycoterra -https://phycoterra.com/

Today we are talking to our first member of AgGrad's current 30 Under 30 cohort! Join us as we talk to Ellie Symes about what lead her to success, The Bee Corp., and more.

This week we talk with Ellie Symes, CEO of The Bee Corp. We met Ellie at the recent Almond Growers virtual conference. With pollination hives in almonds renting for around $200 each, almond growers want to make sure they are getting good, strong hives so they get maximum production from their orchards. Beekeepers want to make sure they are not spending time and money moving hives that don't measure up to a grower's standards. So, what's the best way to make sure both beekeepers and growers get the biggest bang for their bees? One answer - fast, accurate grading using Bee Corp's technology and their cloud-based software, Verifli. Bee Corp staff visit beeyards, holding yards or orchards at night and take IR photos of two sides of each colony on a pallet. The image is uploaded to the cloud and their sophisticated software reports exactly how many frames of bees are in each of the colonies by the next morning. One person can do 1,000 colonies in one night if they need to. Beekeepers can do this even before trucking out to the orchard or while in a holding yard, saving money, ensuring growers they are sending strong colonies and meeting contract specs. Grade at night, get results the next day. Hive technology may not have changed much since the 1850's, but how we monitor and measure hives sure has. Listen today as we talk with Ellie about The Bee Corp, hive grading and the benefits of this exciting advancement available today for beekeepers and growers alike! Links and websites mentioned in this podcast: The Bee Corp - https://www.thebeecorp.com The Bee Corp Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/TheBeeCorp/ The Bee Corp Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thebeecorp_/ The Bee Corp Twitter - @TheBeeCorp_ The Bee Corp LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-bee-corp Honey Bee Obscura Podcast - https://www.honeybeeobscura.com American Beekeeping Federation: Chinese Tallow Tree Call To Action - https://myemail.constantcontact.com/CALL-TO-ACTION-.html?soid=1132973782819&aid=UizyOauKvls Hive Tracks - https://hivetracks.com ______________ Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about heir line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global Patties is a family business that manufactures protein supplement patties for honey bees. Feeding your hives protein supplement patties will help ensure that they produce strong and health colonies by increasing brood production and overall honey flow. Global offers a variety of standard patties, as well as custom patties to meet your specific needs. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode!  We want to also thank 2 Million Blossoms as a sponsor of the podcast. 2 Million Blossoms is a quarterly magazine destined for your coffee table. Each page of the magazine is dedicated to the stories and photos of all pollinators and written by leading researchers, photographers and our very own, Kim Flottum. _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thanks to Bee Culture, the Magazine of American Beekeeping, for their support of The Beekeeping Today Podcast. Available in print and digital at www.beeculture.com Thank you for listening!  Podcast music: Young Presidents, "Be Strong", Musicalman, "Epilogue" Beekeeping Today Podcast is an audio production of Growing Planet Media, LLC

Not only did Ellie Symes start her master’s degree program the same year that she was finishing her undergraduate degree at Indiana University, she also pioneered an ag start-up all about bees and agriculture’s pollination processes. Constantly moving throughout her childhood, Ellie has found a home in Indiana where she and her co-founder, Wyatt, continue to build research, relationships, and processes to solve the problem of accuracy in pollinator counts, specifically for almond orchardists.  The official product of The Bee Corp, Verifly utilizes the research Ellie and her team have done on beekeeping, pollination and beehives through infrared cameras. Not the first product that they have created, it’s their current staple product, and utilizes infrared cameras at nights to create a snapshot of the hive's health. The reason why sensors are helpful to understand beehives is because bees are their own heating and cooling system for their home. They control a lot of other factors in the hive in order to incubate their eggs. All of this can be monitored by sensors versus the usual method of manual inspection that requires the hives to be opened.  Choosing to be in a Benefit Corporation in the very first meeting, held in an audience with the same professionals that had encouraged them to dream bigger, Wyatt and Ellie built their business model. One of the board members who was formerly a lawyer, encouraged them to look at the difference between private, non-profit and B Corp. “[B Corp] sounded like the best marriage of our value as founders in doing well, while also fitting well in what we were trying to create with a business model,” says Ellie. Using the B Corp outline has helped The Bee Corp structure the company culture and their strong values around how their products won’t just benefit their business but the industry as a whole.  Make sure to subscribe to the https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClJpE4tdH2NN6Plj1UIWNwA (AgGrad YouTube Channel )to learn more about career opportunities in agriculture and follow along on the special “https://aggrad.com/introducing-aggrad-30-under-30/ (30 Under 30 in Agriculture)” series! Interested in nominating someone under 30? Nominate them https://aggrad.com/30-under-30/ (here)! 

Ellie Symes, co-founder and CEO of The Bee Corp, sits down with Jason Scott to discuss her introduction into beekeeping, the industry around it and what The Bee Corp is doing to improve hive inspection and pollination. Symes gives in-depth explanations of its Verifli hive grading system and how it can support growers' pollination investment.

Ellie Symes drops by the podcast to talk about pivoting to find product market fit in the beekeeping community.

Host and American Family Farmer Doug Stephan www.eastleighfarm.com begins with news about a new organization for Dairy Farmers, Dairy Together, www.dairytogether.com a movement to rebuild a viable dairy economy for family farmers and rural communities. Next, we meet Ellie Symes, CEO at The Bee Corp. www.thebeecorp.com Along with a few close friends, Ellie launched the Beekeeping Club at IU, with a mission to develop a pollinator-friendly campus. Within its first year, the club generated over 300 members and some very flattering media coverage. Today, The Bee Corp strives to Empower growers and beekeepers by delivering insights into beehive health. Finally, Doug opines about the growing woodchuck problem and various ways to control them.

In this episode, I chat with Ellie Symes, founder and CEO of Bee Corp, a corporation with the mission to empower growers and beekeepers by delivering data analytics into beehive health. The data they provide helps commercial scale growers ensure effective pollination of their crops.Bee Corp started a couple years ago, and their first product was Queen’s Guard, a product that used temperature sensors to determine if the queen was alive in a beehive or not. For the next level of growth, they reallocated their resources to launch a new product, an infrared camera which is placed inside of a beehive, which is to be launched in February 2019.Ellie shares how they take existing technology and use it to ascertain data which is important, in this instance, in the beekeeping and agricultural industry. She details the research process that went into the growth of their business, and how Bee Corp plans to implement this technology in order to acquire new data in other industries.Topics In This Episode:Importance of conducting research before launching a new productHow to scale up your business to the large commercial spaceDifference between being a technology company and a data companyHow to find a need in the industry and creating a product to fit that needConducting customer interviews to determine the best way to add efficiency to an industryThe importance of research allocation in order to focus on key areas of growthThe future of infrared technology to grow within this industry, as well as others

While I don’t have a traditional tech start up, I have a kind of love love relationship with the tech world.  Maybe it’s because Tech is the new American Dream.  To have an idea that solves a pain point in the world, build a model, have a bunch of tech stuff happen, and voula, you’re a millionaire.  One version or another of this story, the story of a magically different life than you have right now, has captured the American imagination from it’s infancy. The very act of immigrating, sailing on a ship for months to the new world is that story.  The industrial revolution is that story, And now, from our Commodore 64s and Ataris to the podcast your listening to right now,  we all love to believe that magic can happen.  So I do love talking with tech entrepreneurs.  To hear the pain point their solving.  To dig deep into the nuts and bolts of what it means to raise huge sums of money based basically on nothing besides the founders word and a compelling deck of powerpoint slides. And then build the thing and launch the thing and raise money money and grow.  Or conversely, to fail miserably, to miss one key point, to just miss a fund raising goal, to not realize a subtlety of your ideal client.  Tech is the wild wild west and I love every chance I have to be a part of it. So today, we dig into it.  Deep into one specific issue that every tech business lucky enough to actually launch their product faces: how to budget for the first years of a product actually being live. Our guest is one of Bloomington Indiana’s favorite tech entrepreneurs. Her business serves a very specific purpose – to help honey farmers create healthy happy productive lives for their bees.  Her business is called Beecorp and their products monitor bee hive and organize data helping farmers measure hive strength, productivity and safety.  Beecorp has won awards across the tech and agriculture industries and they’re continuing to grow staff and products each year.  Ellie Symes is the founder and CEO of Beecorp and she shares a crossroads with us today. We’re glad you joined us. Topics discussed in this episode include: The current state of Ellies business (5:20) Should Ellie hire for sales? (11:35) How many customers does Beecorp need? (14:30) Cut backs she’s made for the upcoming year (23:00) What’s driving the budget question (28:00) Prep of the Pitch (35:00) Model what you can and what would over staffing look like (37:15) The Vision Value Pull (40:45) Building the magnet (45:00) Special thanks to Ellie Symes of Beecorp for being willing to pull back the curtains and share this business crossroads. And, of course, a huge thank you to David Quick for offering his time and expertise. You can find David and many of his resources at HELPINGBULLS.COM Contributors to this episode include: Host - Jeremy Goodrich Co-Host – David Quick Music - Mark Vinten Editing - Christopher Lang If you enjoyed this podcast, there’s a couple of things we need you to do right now:  SUBSCRIBE to Scratch Entrepreneur on itunes, Stitcher, Google Play or wherever you listen to podcasts  While your there, please REVIEW the show  SHARE with friends Finally, please, JOIN the Scratch Entrepreneur Facebook Group Then, please share the show with whoever you think it will inspire. Until the next time, We truly appreciate you listening.   Need Shine? More great stories & information at: Youtube - Blog - Podcast Facebook - Twitter  

Ellie Symes, a rising star in the Indiana's tech ecosystem, leads The Bee Corp., a data-analytics firm that helps bee keepers and growers optimize the pollination of their orchards and fields. Symes, who started the company while a student at Indiana University, appeared on stage at the Forbes AgTech Summit in Indianapolis and the company was part of the event's startup showcase.  She talks with podcast host Mason King about being a young entrepreneur, taking risks and pivoting when you have to to make your company stronger. We also learn she's become allergic to bees!  Photo courtesy of The Bee Corp.  Music credit: Boogie da Bee by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Ft: Sprezza, tiltededge, Kara Square, ElRon XChile, Stefan Kartenberg, rocavaco, Javolenus, reg7783  

This week Inside INdiana Business Host Gerry Dick is joined by Ellie Symes, Founder and CEO of The Bee Corp. in Bloomington, IN.

Listen in as Ellie and Wes discuss the company that is creating quite a bit of “buzz”! Ellie was recently nominated as a 2018 Rising Star for the 19th Annual Mira Awards and The Bee Corp received a $225,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.  The post Episode 14: Ellie Symes and Wes Hadley of The Bee Corp appeared first on Taking Care in Business.

Our guest today has perhaps one of the smartest solutions to a specific problem that's plagued beekeepers for centuries. Her and the Beecorp team are taking on some of the key issues around a dying community of animals that we actually really need. Ellie Symes shares her story, how BeeCorp is solving key issues for beekeepers, and what she's learned from being a CEO. We're glad you joined us.   Early Memories of Entrepreneurship While Ellie never really saw herself as growing up to be an entrepreneur, she did start a couple of businesses as a kid.  Her favorite was a dog walking  business when she was just six years old.  Not very many people wanted to let a six year old take their dogs but it was Ellie’s solution to not being allowed to have a dog herself. What is BeeCorp? BeeCorp builds analytic software for beekeepers.  Their first product can tell when a queen bee dies.  The queen is the most important member of a hive because she has all of the babies and builds the community.  When the queen dies the other bees go into major housekeeping mode instead of creating honey.  Eventually the bees will just leave.  BeeCorp helps beekeepers realize this sooner and solve the issue before the hive dies. How have beekeepers responded? They love the technology piece, the alerts are super helpful and the beekeeper are actually providing BeeCorp a ton of information so they know what new products to build. How did Ellie come up with the idea? Ellie has been a beekeeper for 6 years and she’s always loved it.  She even started a Beekeeping club in college.  Colony collapse was just starting to get What is the current state of the honey bee world? The world has one-third of the population of bees we had in the 1960s.  Climate change, pesticides, globalization, and beekeepers themselves are all continbuting to the problem.  Ellie knows that she can’t necessarily solve the problem but her goal is to help beekeepers catch some of the results on their hives so they can diagnose the problem and fix it. What about hive theft and vandalism? Both are actually a major problem in the beekeeping world. Beekeepers actually steal hive from each other a lot. Beecorp clients have GPS senbsors in the hive so it can be found and the theaf could be prosecuted. As for vandalism, the Beecorp sensors can tell the beekeeper quickly so that they can go out, fix the hive and save it for total demise.­­­ What was a major gut check in the evolution of BeeCorp? They were raising money and they’d received a fair amount but they weren’t quite there yet.  Ultimately one of the founders asked their landlord who pulled through along with another few final investors. How does the feeling of business ownership change once you get funded? The pressure of having other peoples money is a huge difference.  Ellie An important moment of business ownership? What do you love about owning a business? Having control over what you do and how you do it and create the culture of a community What’s one thing you can’t stand? Ellie can’t stand receiving all of the sales calls.  Her number is on the website Where will BeeCorp be 5 years down the road? Ellie and the BeeCorp team They want to be an employer that employees love to be at, keep hive and do research in an innovative way.  Have more technical solutions for the problems beekeepers face.  Build a database of information   Special thanks to Ellie Symes for taking the time to share the BeeCorp story with us. Mentioned in the show: BeeCorp INX3 Hoshin Matrix Hanapin Marketing Shine Insurance Music by Mark Vinten Need insurance for your SaaS business? More great stories & information at: Youtube - Blog - Podcast Facebook - Twitter