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Lars Dyrud

Founder

CEO at Earth Optics · Founder at OmniEarth

Great Falls, Virginia, United States

FoundedEarth OpticsOmniEarth

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About

Lars Dyrud is the CEO and an executive board member at EarthOptics, a soil mapping agricultural technology company, and serves as Chairperson of the Board at Leaf Agriculture. He previously founded and led OmniEarth, which was acquired by EagleView Technologies, where he then held the role of Senior Vice President of Business Development. Dyrud holds a BA in Physics from Augsburg College and a Ph.D. from Boston University, was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo, and has held research leadership roles at Draper Laboratory and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

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Earth Optics's investors · 13

Argonautic VenturesNew York · $5M checksCerity Partners VenturesBostonDoon CapitalSilicon ValleyEarthshot VenturesSydney · $100K – $5M checksiSelect FundSt. Louis · $250K – $2M checksMiddleland CapitalArlingtonRoute 66 VenturesAlexandria · $500K – $4M checksS2G InvestmentsChicago · $1M – $5M checksSerra VenturesChampaign · $5M checksTO VCNew YorkTPBSan Francisco · since 2025Valor Capital GroupNew York · $100K – $5M checksVTC VenturesRoanoke · $100K – $5M checks

Founder at OmniEarth

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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)since 2016Hemisphere Ventures LLCMckinney

Experience

  1. Leaf AgricultureChairperson of the Boardcurrent2025 — present
  2. EarthOpticsCEO and Executive Board Membercurrent2020 — present
  3. Space for HumanityBoard of Advisorscurrent2018 — present
  4. EagleViewSVP Business Development2018 — 2021
  5. EagleViewSVP Machine Learning2017 — 2021Washington D.C. Metro Area
  6. OmniEarthCEO2014 — 2017Washington D.C. Metro Area
  7. Apio SystemsLead Science Advisor2013 — 2017
  8. Penn State UniversityAdjunct Professor ECE Department2011 — 2017State College, Pennsylvania Area
  9. Draper LaboratoryHead Earth and Space Science2013 — 2015Cambridge, MA
  10. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratorySection Supervisor- Earth and Space Science Group2011 — 2013
  11. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratorySenior Scientist2009 — 2013
  12. Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringAd Junct Professor2011 — 2013Laurel, MD
  13. CRS Inc.Senior Scientist2005 — 2009
  14. Boston UniversityPostdoctoral Researcher2004 — 2005Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Skills & more

Space Systems23Remote Sensing13Physics76Spacecraft6IDL11Astronomy4Image Processing4Modeling4Nanotechnology2Sensors31Scientific Writing4Mathematical Modeling7
+12 moreSpectroscopyDoDSoftware EngineeringPlasma PhysicsAstrophysicsSimulationsMonte Carlo SimulationOptical EngineeringFortranSatelliteMatlabLaTeX

Languages English · Norwegian

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Who is Lars Dyrud?
Lars Dyrud is the CEO and an executive board member at EarthOptics, a soil mapping agricultural technology company, and serves as Chairperson of the Board at Leaf Agriculture. He previously founded and led OmniEarth, which was acquired by EagleView Technologies, where he then held the role of Senior Vice President of Business Development. Dyrud holds a BA in Physics from Augsburg College and a Ph.D. from Boston University, was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo, and has held research leadership roles at Draper Laboratory and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Where does Lars Dyrud work?
Lars Dyrud is CEO of Earth Optics and Co-founder at OmniEarth.
What companies did Lars Dyrud found?
Lars Dyrud founded Earth Optics, OmniEarth.
Where did Lars Dyrud go to school?
Lars Dyrud studied at Boston University (Ph. D., Astronomy); University of Oslo (Fulbright Scholar, Space Physics); Augsburg University (B. A., Norwegian).

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