Faysal A. Sohail (born December 1963) is an American venture capitalist and Managing Director at Presidio Partners in San Francisco.

Sohail was a co-founder of Silicon Architects and on the founding team of Actel Corporation, two influential companies in the computer chip industry.

[1] Sohail serves as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of InoBat Auto, a European electric vehicle battery producer.

[3] Sohail attended the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering in 1985 and was a James Scholar.

FPGA technology enabled creation of electronic products at a low cost, and to be reconfigured in the field when needed as opposed to sending them to a manufacturer for fabrication.

In 1990 Sohail co-founded Silicon Architects,[6] a company that pioneered the complex Structured ASIC (application-specific integrated circuits) Methodology[7] called Cell-Based Array (CBA).

[1] In 1999, Sohail became CEO of Cadabra Design Automation and oversaw its acquisition by Numerical Technologies where he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations.

[12] In 2019, Sohail co-founded InoBat Auto an electric vehicle battery producer located in the heart of Europe, with Venture Capitalist Marian Bocek.

[3] In 2010, Sohail accompanied then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to Moscow to meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to encourage entrepreneurial investments and share his thoughts and experience in financing innovation.

[26] On June 15, 2011, the US Jakarta-Indonesia Embassy issued a press release naming Sohail as one of 13 members of an Entrepreneurship Delegation set to visit Indonesia July 19–24, 2011.