The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Iron Ox: 1 model, 2 deployments across 2 regions, $98.0M raised. 9 sources back the record.
CategoryAgricultural robots
Overview
US Indoor/greenhouse robotic-farming company (San Carlos CA) built around the Grover mobile robot; defunct as a produce company (rebranded to Inevitable Tech ~2023; cessation 2024-06-30).
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries A post-money
Key facts
Product
Wind-down
CEO
Investorssee investors →
Status
Financial stage
Data & sources
Press releases
1
News coverage
1
Patent documents
5
Web sources
2
9 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Iron Ox has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Y Combinator1× joint3 total
Most recent
Iron Ox on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jan 2026. Explore where Iron Ox's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Iron Ox deployment record →
Relationships
Founders (2)
- Brandon Alexandercofounderfounded 2015-01-01no longer at company
- Jon Binneycofounderfounded 2015-01-01no longer at company
Former / Previously (2)
- Brandon Alexander Co-founder & former CEOsecondary-verified
- Jon Binney Co-founder & former CTOreported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Iron Ox.
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 →
Operator customers (1)
- Iron Ox2 deployments
Recent coverage
Iron Ox 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
- $98.0M
- Employees
- 50
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- wound_down
- Counterparty risk class
- high
- Going concern
- flaggedDefunct; pivoted to Inevitable Tech ~Jun 2023; cessation 2024-06-30.
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.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 just announced
Every company Iron Ox has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1Y Combinator1× joint3 total
Funding rounds (1)
- Series A2019-08-01
$20M(reported) · $122M post
Investors: Y Combinator Continuity Fund (lead), Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Patent estate (5)
- EP3557970B1epograntedgranted 2021-06-23assignee
- US20230337593A1usptopendingassignee
- WO2017181127A1wipopendingassignee
- US10349584B2usptograntedgranted 2019-07-16assignee
- US20170161560A1usptopendingassignee
Timeline
Every recorded move in Iron Ox’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2019-08-01Series A raising $20250000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 11, 2026
Iron Ox mixes robotics, AI and farming to transform industrial...
- Verified media addedJun 11, 2026
Watch Robots Grow Food Without Farmers
- Record createdJun 3, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment recordedJan 1, 2026
Grover at Lockhart, Texas, USA (535K sq ft facility)
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Grover at Gilroy
Sources (4)
- https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/03/iron-ox-lays-off-50-amounting-to-nearly-half-its-staff/
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/iron-ox-launches-grover-an-all-new-autonomous-mobile-robot-301413565.html
- https://www.crosslinkcapital.com/news/iron-ox-raises-53m-in-series-c-funding/
- https://www.bluerhinocapital.com/news/its-inevitable
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Iron Ox.Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Naio Technologies4 models
- WORX Landroid4 models
- Carbon Robotics3 models
- Solinftec3 models
- AgriPass2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Iron Ox from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Reports of layoffs at Iron Ox
Significant layoffs reported at Iron Ox, an agriculture technology company using robotics and AI for autonomous greenhouse farming.
Iron Ox is disrupting agriculture with robots and AI
Silicon Valley-based Iron Ox uses robots and AI to automate greenhouse farming, reducing water usage while producing high-quality produce.
Iron Ox Raises $20M And Announces New Robotic Greenhouse
Iron Ox raised $20M in Series B led by Pathbreaker Ventures, with participation from Crosslink Capital, Amplify Partners, ENIAC Ventures, and Y Combinator. Total funding reached…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/iron-ox.md
- RSS feed: /companies/iron-ox/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/b783af14-72ff-4f92-9b2c-bfee021e0e93
- Revision history: /companies/iron-ox/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
Heat Index
Category contender77/100
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
Iron Ox draws attention at the 44th percentile but verifies reality at the 64th percentile among ag robots. Hype Gap -20.3, 30th widest among ag robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Funding runway warrants monitoring: last known round 86 months ago.
Signal flags
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: Sep 2, 2026