Neuron Industries
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About Neuron Industries
YC company profile
Industrial Controllers built for AI
Neuron is crafting the world’s first purpose-built industrial controller for AI, replacing the antiquated PLCs running every machine and factory. We help customers from chemical processing to nuclear reactors compress controls projects from weeks to hours.
- YC batch: Summer 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 2
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: Industrials
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Robotic Process Automation, Manufacturing, Automation, Industrial
- YC partner: Diana Hu
Founders
Dennis Ren — Founder/CEO
CEO and Co-Founder at Neuron Industries. Previously founding EE at Freeform, built its hardware tech stack from the ground up and scaled the world's most advanced metal 3D printing factory to production. Vision Pro System EE at Apple, owned eye tracking and Optic ID subsystems form factor system and board design. Ex-Tesla (Fremont) , Amazon (Go), Apple (iPad Pro, Pencil). UCSD BSEE.
Kenneth Rhee — Founder/CTO
CTO and Co-Founder at Neuron Industries. Previously founded WorkIPO, bootstrapping it as a solo founder, building mission-critical enterprise software systems. Seller-marketplace systems at GOAT.com transacting hundreds millions of dollars, engineering at Amazon on Elastic Block Store (trillions I/O ops daily), Silk Browser for FireTV at Amazon, Dassault Systemes' Medidata on regulated clinical services. Computer Science at UC Irvine.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.