Nicholas Velastegui

Nicholas Velastegui is the Co-Founder and Head of Operations of Velastegui Ventures. He has spent more than two decades building and scaling complex technical systems, first in silicon at Intel and now in AI. What ties his career together is taking messy, high-stakes systems and making them run reliably at scale.

At Velastegui Ventures, Nicholas runs the company's operations end to end: finance, hiring and HR, cybersecurity, local and cloud IT, web development, customer engagement, partner project management, and legal contracting. He also brings hands-on technical depth to the firm's AI strategy work and to the RAG-backed LLM platforms it builds.

Before co-founding Velastegui Ventures, Nicholas spent 16 years at Intel, working across nearly every layer of microprocessor design. He designed the global clock network for the Prescott and Cedar Mill processors - the work was published at ISSCC as "Scalable sub-10ps skew global clock distribution for a 90nm multi-GHz IA microprocessor"

He went on to lead the team that re-architected Intel's physical verification automation platform. It was deployed on more than 15 processor designs at Intel sites across the United States, Mexico, and India, and it reduced the headcount needed for verification while improving runtimes, quality, and compute efficiency. As a senior technical lead, he became the engineer teams called when projects stalled, clearing bottlenecks in compute, tooling, vendors, and cross-site coordination. He also created and taught software automation courses for Intel's design engineers.

Nicholas holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.