The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Four Growers: 1 model, $9.0M raised. 3 sources back the record.
CategoryAgricultural robots
Overview
Four Growers is a Pittsburgh-based agricultural robotics company developing AI-powered crop harvesting robots for greenhouses. Founded by Brandon Contino and Dan Chi, the company raised $15M total including $9M Series A led by Basset Capital, with participation from Y combinator.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries A post-money
Key facts
Robot
Scale
Focus
Stage
Product
Fundingsee investors →
GR-100 greenhouse harvester
Robotic harvest workflow
Data & sources
Web sources
3
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Models (1)
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Brandon Contino Co-Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Brandon Continocofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Four Growers.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Four Growers in third-party press
Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Naio Technologies4 models
- WORX Landroid4 models
- Carbon Robotics3 models
- Solinftec3 models
- AgriPass2 models
Financial state
- Total funding
- $9.0M
- Employees
- 17
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (1)
- Series A2024-11-20
$9M(reported) · $54M post
Investors: Basset Capital, Y Combinator, Ospraie Ag Science
Timeline
Every recorded move in Four Growers’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2024-11-20Series A raising $9000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 24, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-29
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-29
Sources by quality tier
- 3
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The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Four Growers.Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Naio Technologies4 models
- WORX Landroid4 models
- Carbon Robotics3 models
- Solinftec3 models
- AgriPass2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Four Growers from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Robots that feed the world: scale-up Four Growers lands in Zuid-Holland - InnovationQuarter
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First fleet of tomato-harvesting robots operating in Dutch greenhouse - Hortidaily
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Advanced robotics in CEA - Produce Grower -
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Four Growers Secures $9M in Series A Round for AI-Powered Crop Harvesting Robots - Global AgInvesting
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Four Growers secures $9M to scale production of harvesting robot - The Packer
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YC-backed Four Growers builds robots to help solve greenhouse labor shortages - TechCrunch
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inaho tomato harvesting robot undergoes trials at Dutch growers - The Robot Report
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Faster-than-humans harvesting robot now also picks cucumber - Hortidaily
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5 Q’s for Brandon Contino, Co-founder and CEO of Four Growers - Center for Data Innovation
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Pittsburgh agtech firm Four Growers is branching out - Technical.ly
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Meet the founder: Four Growers on what it takes to build ag robots that harvest faster than humans - AgFunderNews
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The future is now for Syngenta - Fruitnet
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/four-growers.md
- RSS feed: /companies/four-growers/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/69d27741-23ab-40d3-9761-2f02429e37e7
- Revision history: /companies/four-growers/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Naio Technologies4 models
- WORX Landroid4 models
- Carbon Robotics3 models
- Solinftec3 models
- AgriPass2 models
Video
The future of farming is here. At Westburg BV in the Netherlands, a fleet of Five GR-200 autonomous harvesting robots from Four Growers is working around the cl
Four Growers is a robotics and AI company that creates autonomous harvesting and analytics robots for agriculture - starting in commercial greenhouses.
Nature Fresh Farms, based in Leamington, Ontario is one of North America’s largest greenhouse farms growing high-quality organics, berries, peppers, tomatoes, a
See how easy it is to autonomously harvest your crop today... it just takes a press of a button
Four Growers is a robotics and AI company that creates autonomous harvesting and analytics robots for agriculture. We're proud to announce the expansion into cu
With arable land shrinking and labor shortages reaching critical levels, how do we feed a growing global population? The answer is happening right now at Westbu
In this video, we go inside a massive 140,000-square-meter greenhouse to witness a huge milestone: the first operational deployment of the Four Growers GR-200 r
The future of farming has officially arrived at Westberg Growers! Designed to tackle the labor-intensive world of loose-pick grape and cherry tomatoes, Four Gro
🌱🤖 Four Growers (@fourgrowers) is transforming greenhouse harvesting with the GR-200 robot!🤖🌱 Clearing vine after vine with gentle, high-throughput picking
Every tomato on a grocery store shelf has a story 🍅 For Four Growers, that story begins with AI, robotics, and a mission to make fresh produce more affordable
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Four Growers draws attention at the 74th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among ag robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Funding runway warrants monitoring: last known round 23 months ago.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 2, 2026