Find your path to William
670 people in our graph share verified history with William — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.
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
William went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Partcl's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, William can intro founders to Partcl's investors below.
Partcl's investors · 3
Co-founders at Partcl

Experience
- PartclCEOcurrent2025 — present
- Stanford UniversityResearch Assistant2023 — 2024
- Stanford UniversityCourse Assistant2024Stanford, CA
- NVIDIASM ASIC Performance2024Santa Clara, CA
- Efabless CorporationConsultant2024
- Cornell Custom Silicon SystemsDigital Subteam Lead2022 — 2023Ithaca, NY
- Aabix CorporationFounder - Chief Product Officer2020 — 2023Ithaca, New York, United States
- Cornell EngineeringGraduate Student Researcher2023Ithaca, NY
- AmazonHardware Development Engineering Intern2022Seattle, WA
- Cornell Autonomous Sailboat Team (CUSail)Team Lead2021 — 2022Ithaca, New York, United States
- Cornell Autonomous Sailboat Team (CUSail)Navigation Team Member2019 — 2021Ithaca, New York Area
- PSEGNuclear Engineering Intern2021Salem, NJ
Skills & more
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Autodesk EAGLELeadershipSemiconductor EngineeringMicrocontrollersField-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)Internet of Things (IoT)RTL CodingVery-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)SystemVerilogComputer EngineeringHardware EngineeringApplication-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC)From William's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is William Salcedo?
- 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.
- Where does William Salcedo work?
- William Salcedo is Founder of Partcl.
- What companies did William Salcedo found?
- William Salcedo founded Partcl.
- Where did William Salcedo go to school?
- William Salcedo studied at Stanford University (Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical and Electronics Engineering); Stanford University (Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering); Cornell University (Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering).
Founder mafias
Y Combinator mafia10,230
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Stanford University mafia1,934
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Cornell mafia535
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NVIDIA mafia136
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Same school
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Also attended Cornell University1,413
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Shared employers
Also worked at Partcl2
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Also worked at Cornell Engineering8
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