
A nuclear physicist learned to listen in scrapyards, turned stubborn measurement problems into handheld products, and built SciAps toward a deal worth up to $260 million. His second laboratory is louder: a NASCAR garage.
Jorge Heraud is a Peruvian-born engineer and serial agtech founder who co-founded Blue River Technology — sold to John Deere for $305 million in 2017 — and is now CEO of TerraBlaster, a Redwood City startup using NASA-pioneered laser spectroscopy to give farmers real-time soil nutrient data, aiming to cut fertilizer waste and transform how agriculture feeds the world.