About TerraBlaster

Helping farmers grow the best possible future.

Our mission is to help farmers reclaim the value they lose when imperfect information causes waste. Billions of dollars in fertilizer that never feeds a crop. Missing nutrients that limit yields. Unneeded nutrients that leach into waterways.

That's not just waste. It's a missed opportunity. And the heart of that opportunity is capturing precise, real-time, and actionable data about plant-available soil nutrients so you can immediately start precise fertilizer application.

This is technology that was developed by NASA for Mars that's now improving life on earth.

Leadership

Our founders.

TerraBlaster is not a new software team learning agriculture. We are engineers, scientists, agronomists, and business people who have spent decades inside this industry and shipped technology that changed how row-crop farming works. Our team helped bring GPS autosteering, Precision Agriculture, See & Spray, autonomous tractors as well as NASA LIBS systems from prototype to the equipment lines they run on today, and has spent decades on the retail side, sitting across the table from growers helping them make better decisions.

Jorge Heraud

Jorge Heraud

CEO and Co-Founder

Founder and CEO of Blue River Technology, which brought computer vision to precision agriculture and was acquired by John Deere. Afterward, VP of Automation and Autonomy at John Deere. Also Director for Precision Agriculture at Trimble Navigation. Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering, Management Science, and Business from Stanford.

Matt Colgan

Matt Colgan

CTO and Co-Founder

18 years developing sensors and algorithms to measure plant and soil properties including See & Spray at Blue River. Degrees in Computer Science & Aerospace Eng from CU-Boulder; Stanford MS in Aeronautics & Astronautics; PhD from Stanford in data science developing algorithms and machine learning techniques to measure plant traits from airborne lidar & hyperspectral data.

Dr. Pablo Sobron

Dr. Pablo Sobron

Board Member and Co-Founder

One of the world's authorities on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. Developed LIBS instrumentation for NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and SETI.

Who is behind us

Our investors.

Khosla Ventures Ulu Ventures Trailhead Capital Builders Vision Ag Startup Engine Artesian The Reservoir Sunna Ventures Bidra Plug and Play

We are building this in the field, not in a demo room.