YC Summer 2026 (S26) founder

Warren Shepard

Founder of Control Seat, AI that runs factories.

Company

Warren Shepard is listed as a founder of Control Seat. Control Seat builds the hardware and software that helps industrial teams see, understand, and run their operations. Our platform creates one clear source of truth across the plant. It connects the systems teams already use, brings control, monitoring, history, and machine health together, and adds an intelligence layer that continuously watches for meaningful changes. Teams can understand what happened, catch problems earlier, and act before they become downtime. The result is fewer surprises, faster decisions, and less time spent piecing together information across disconnected tools. We work with manufacturers, utilities, energy companies, and other industrial operators modernizing existing facilities or building new ones.

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  1. LinkedIn

    Graduating from Dartmouth and building Control Seat in YC S26

    Warren Shepard announces his Dartmouth graduation and that he is building Control Seat in Y Combinator’s Summer 2026 batch.