Partcl modernizes chip design automation with physics-informed models powered by GPU acceleration. Our tools run up to 700× faster than legacy solutions, cutting weeks off development and unlocking AI-driven optimization.
Partcl is a Y Combinator company in the Spring 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Design a chip in minutes. The founders listed are William Salcedo (Founder/CEO), Vamshi Balanaga (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 27, 2025).
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Partcl modernizes chip design automation with physics-informed models powered by GPU acceleration.
Our tools run up to 700× faster than legacy solutions, cutting weeks off development and unlocking AI-driven optimization.
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Partcl builds GPU-accelerated electronic design automation tools for chip designers.
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William Salcedo
Founder/CEO
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.
Vamshi Balanaga
Founder/CTO
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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