Neuron Industries: Industrial Controllers built for AI

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.

Active 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.

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.

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.

Company Launches

Neuron Industries: The world's first purpose built industrial controller for AI

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TL;DR: Neuron is building the world's first purpose built industrial controller for AI, replacing the antiquated PLCs running every machine and factory. We compress controls projects from weeks to hours, from chemical processing to nuclear reactors.

We have hardware ready to deploy today, hit us up for a pilot!

Problem

Every piece of industrial equipment, conveyors, pumps, packaging cells, process plants, runs on PLCs. But PLCs got stuck in the 90s: it's 2026 and you're paying $5000 for a controller with 5MB of memory, programmable only with esoteric IDEs and languages frozen in 1993. Reindustrialization and data center buildups are pushing demand up while the programmer workforce shrinks. Projects still cost a fortune and take months.

Solution

We're rebuilding the controller from first principles: state-of-the-art hardware, an AI-native stack, one ecosystem unifying PLC, HMI, SCADA, and Historian. Our agent contextualizes your requirements and hardware, then lets anyone program production applications in plain English, with test and verification guardrails and first-class data observability.

Traction

Our tech is in customers' plants today: pilots in chemical processing, electronics manufacturing, wastewater treatment, and small modular reactors.

Team

Dennis Ren (CEO): founding EE at Freeform, built the hardware stack for the world's most advanced metal 3D-printing factory. Apple Vision Pro founding team, Amazon Go, Tesla Fremont.

Kenneth Rhee (CTO): second-time founder, bootstrapped and exited WorkIPO. Custom ERP, MES, and CRM systems; ex-Amazon and GOAT Group (YC W11).

Our ask

If you — or someone you know — build machines or factories that run on PLCs and HMIs, we'd love to talk: hello@neuronindustries.com