YC Summer 2026 (S26) founder

Anderson Chen

Founder of Operon, Agentic data layer for manufacturing & process industries.

Company

Anderson Chen is listed as a founder of Operon. Operon is the data intelligence layer for heavy industry. We ingest the messy documents a plant runs on (P&IDs, schematics, datasheets, scans) and turn them into one structured, queryable model of the facility. On top of it, engineers query their plant in natural language and build agentic workflows for safety, compliance, and design.

Founder traction evidence

Public posts and activity attributed directly to this founder.

  1. LinkedIn

    The world's most mission-critical infrastructure still runs on decades of messy data. Operon changes that by ingesting the most complex diagrams and decades of data that today only experienced… | Anderson Chen | 24 comments

    Operon changes that by ingesting the most complex diagrams and decades of data that today only experienced… | Anderson Chen | 24 comments URL Source: https://linkedin.com/posts/activity-7478586962652655616-SNCG Markdown Content: Agree & Join LinkedIn By clicking Continue to...

  2. LinkedIn

    Operon YC S26 hiring post

    Anderson Chen wrote that Operon (YC S26) is a software company hiring chemical engineers.