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William Salcedo

Founder

Founder at Partcl

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedPartcl Β· YC

About

William Salcedo studied at Cornell and Stanford, where his research focused on AI-based circuit verification. He worked at Nvidia and as an undergraduate designed chips, including work on LLM-assisted chip design.

Founder at PartclYC X25

Intro paths

YC

William went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) β€” any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, General Partner at Y Combinator β€” the partner who ran Partcl's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile β†—

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In turn, William can intro founders to Partcl's investors below.

Co-founders at Partcl

Experience

  1. PartclCEOcurrent2025 β€” present
  2. Stanford UniversityResearch Assistant2023 β€” 2024
  3. Stanford UniversityCourse Assistant2024Stanford, CA
  4. NVIDIASM ASIC Performance2024Santa Clara, CA
  5. Efabless CorporationConsultant2024
  6. Cornell Custom Silicon SystemsDigital Subteam Lead2022 β€” 2023Ithaca, NY
  7. Aabix CorporationFounder - Chief Product Officer2020 β€” 2023Ithaca, New York, United States
  8. Cornell EngineeringGraduate Student Researcher2023Ithaca, NY
  9. AmazonHardware Development Engineering Intern2022Seattle, WA
  10. Cornell Autonomous Sailboat Team (CUSail)Team Lead2021 β€” 2022Ithaca, New York, United States
  11. Cornell Autonomous Sailboat Team (CUSail)Navigation Team Member2019 β€” 2021Ithaca, New York Area
  12. PSEGNuclear Engineering Intern2021Salem, NJ

Education

  1. Stanford UniversityDoctor of Philosophy, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  2. Stanford UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering
  3. Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Skills & more

C++1VerilogPython (Programming Language)1Microsoft Excel3Microsoft Office3Java2C (Programming Language)3C#2Arduino IDE3Embedded SystemsESP8266Arduino
+12 moreAutodesk EAGLELeadershipSemiconductor EngineeringMicrocontrollersField-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)Internet of Things (IoT)RTL CodingVery-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)SystemVerilogComputer EngineeringHardware EngineeringApplication-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC)

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