Partcl

Partcl

Design a chip in minutes

San Francisco
Engineering, Product and Design
Seed · $500K
Founded 2025

Company details

LocationSan Francisco
IndustryEngineering, Product and Design

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Vamshi Balanaga

Vamshi Balanaga

CTO at Partcl. Previously built embedded ML models at Apple, laser weeding robots at Carbon Robotics, and warehouse automation robots at Fulfil Solutions. Built and launched multiple rockets while running the avionics team at Space Enterprise at Berkeley, Stanford EECS PhD (dropout), UC Berkeley Physics.

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William Salcedo

William Salcedo

CEO at Partcl. Previously at Nvidia, Stanford, and Cornell. I taped-out two chips from scratch as an undergrad and developed one of the earliest chips designed by LLMs. My research at Stanford included using AI techniques to verify circuits.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.