Control Seat
Control Seat is a YC Summer 2026 (S26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Control Seat
Summary
Control Seat builds FactoryOS, an AI operating system for factories that combines predictive maintenance, SCADA and HMI, virtual PLC, and operations intelligence in one modular platform. It serves manufacturers, utilities, and energy companies, connecting existing plant equipment and sensors into a single source of truth to replace the patchwork of disconnected tools operators use to monitor equipment health, catch failures, and understand plant performance.
Business model
Modular platform with individual modules purchasable separately or combined.
Go-to-market
Industrial operators, including manufacturers and utilities, adopt the platform module by module, starting with whichever capability they need first, with setup support from the Control Seat team.
From the Y Combinator listing
Predictive maintenance on your plant data and sensors.
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.
Facts
- Industrials / Industrials
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Jack Grodnick
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