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Iron Ox
Sustainable, robotics-produced premium produce
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Sustainability
- Food
- Robotics
- Agriculture
- SaaS
- San Carlos, CA
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Company mission
To make healthy food more available to everyone, while advancing sustainable and scalable food production.
87% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Autonomous robotics presents a huge opportunity for increased efficiency within farms, but this fails to address some long-term problems in traditional farming. Inefficiency in farming not only lies within equipment used but also the enormous amount of land and water required.
Iron Ox designs indoor farming systems that aim to provide higher efficiency in farming through hydroponic systems. The company's indoor greenhouses are fully autonomous and can be operational regardless of the season. This ultimately helps to reduce costs in workforces and resources used whilst improving the quality and quantity of produce grown.
The company has approached inefficiencies in farming intelligently by taking the bold move of moving farming indoors, as opposed to creating autonomous solutions for traditional farming. This strategy has the potential to dramatically change the way fruit and vegetables are harvested, in addition to taking positive steps towards more environmentally friendly farming processes.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- 401k plan
- Dental and vision insurance
- Company options
- Equal opportunity employer
Company values
- One Team
- Challenge the Status Quo
- Do Good for People & the Planet
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2021
$53m
SERIES C
Sep 2020
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $99.3m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Brandon Alexander
(CEO)Brandon spent a year at Merrill Lynch before working as a Software Engineer at Optaros for 3 years. Having founded Alexander Mobile, they worked in further Engineering roles at Uncodin, Willow Garage, and Google before co-founding Iron Ox in July 2015.