Neuron Industries (YC S26) — 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.
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What it does Industrial Controllers built for AI (source)
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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.
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Neuron Industries | Cortex AIC: The AI-Programmable Industrial Controller
Cortex AIC is the AI-native industrial controller that works in place of the PLC. Describe control logic in plain English, deploy deterministic real-time Python, and get the IDE, HMI, historian, and data streaming built in. Zero runtime licenses.
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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.
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