Myra Pasek, who’s held senior legal roles at Tesla and Impossible Foods, has joined the agricultural robotics startup Iron Ox as its first general counsel.
Iron Ox General Counsel Myra Pasek. Courtesy photo
When Pasek joined Tesla in 2007, she was one of the company’s first two in-house attorneys. She started out as associate general counsel before becoming director of communications for Europe, the Middle East and Africa in 2011.
She served as Impossible Foods’ general counsel from 2013 until 2018, when she joined Ouster, a maker of remote sensors that use pulsating lasers, as general counsel. After helping the company go public in March through a special purpose acquisition company merger, she is leaving the company for Iron Ox.
San Carlos, California-based Iron Ox launched in 2015 and makes robots that help care for crops in greenhouses. The company says its technology increases growth cycles and maximizes yields and plant quality.
“I’ve worked at some truly groundbreaking startups—and I am confident that Iron Ox’s innovative reimagining of farming, from-seed-to-table, will be profoundly impactful, ushering in an exciting new era of agriculture,” Pasek said in a statement.
The hiring comes on the heels of Iron Ox raising $53 million in a Series C fundraising round in September. The cash haul brought the total amount the company has raised to $98 million, according to TechCrunch.
Last month, Iron Ox announced the launch of its crop-assisting robot Grover. The robot lifts and moves up to 1,000 pounds of hydroponically fed produce.
“We are applying technology to minimize the amount of land, water and energy needed to nourish a growing population,” CEO Brandon Alexander said in a release announcing Grover’s launch. “Our short-term goal is to mitigate the impact of climate change on the agriculture system. And we won’t stop until we achieve our long-term mission of making the produce sector carbon negative.”
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