Andrew Pignanelli

Andrew Pignanelli

a[at]andrewp.co

I like thinking about the future and how to build it.


Originally from Salt Lake City, but now living in New York. Currently working on building fully autonomous companies at The General Intelligence Company after serving as Velvet's CEO for 4 years. I dropped out of college from the University of Utah to pursue startups. I've delivered lectures at the University of Utah, been featured as a Utah Business "20 in their 20s," and have participated in panels on the future of banking, future of VC, and the future of AI in private finance. In my free time I do visual production lasers/lights for raves.


2024

Founder and CEO - The General Intelligence Company of New York.

Started The General Intelligence Company of New York at South Park Commons, with the mission of being the infrastructure to enable the one-person-billion-dollar company. In April 2025, we raised $2 Million from Compound and Acrew to further our mission.


2021

Founder, owner - Decheque Securities (owned by Velvet)

Decheque Securities brokers institutional size private secondaries for highly innovative tech companies. To date, Decheque Securities has done over $70 Million in transactions of companies like SpaceX, Anthropic, Coreweave, Figure AI, and more. Starting Decheque Securities made me the youngest ever person to own a broker dealer company.


2019

Velvet - Co-founder and CEO

Velvet is the first AI operating system for venture capital funds. Velvet's Digital Analyst software automates over 50% of the due diligence, research, and day to day for VC funds. At present, Velvet serves over 200 VC funds across the globe. After founding the company in 2019, I grew the company to 15 people and we saw success in this market.

Writing

Superoptimization: Organizational Management By Agents

May 21, 2025