Eli Velasquez

Eli Velasquez is Founder & CEO of Capital Stack Investors (U.S.) and Capital Stack Ventures (Spain), boutique advisory firms supporting angel investors, venture funds, and early-stage founders. He advises the University City Science Center and MIT’s The Engine, serves as an Investment Principal with the Gaingels Healthcare Fund, and actively invests as an angel and LP. Eli has testified before the U.S. House Financial Services Capital Markets Committee on expanding access to capital through reforms to the Accredited Investor definition.

In his prior role, he oversaw the U.S. State Department Global Investors Program, supporting and launching innovation and investor initiatives in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Australia, North Macedonia, Morocco, Indonesia, Egypt, Vietnam, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Colombia. He also served as a Venture Development expert for the European Investment Fund’s Turkish Technology Transfer Accelerator.

Prior, he was the Associate Vice Chancellor at Texas Tech University where he co-founded the Lubbock Angel Network, a group that has invested over $4M and seen four exits since its founding in 2015. His efforts in Texas led to over $20M in funding for startups, entrepreneurship programs, and proof of concept funds. Before that, Mr. Velasquez worked for The Boeing Company in southern California, initially within Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) developing the Delta Rockets. In his last two years there, he worked as an Intellectual Property Consultant withing Boeing's Intellectual Property Business (IPB) unit.

He obtained a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University and his J.D. degree with an Intellectual Property Certificate from Whittier Law School.