Faisal A.

Senior Advisor | Government Operations & HR at Scale | Investor | +40 U.S. Startups | 80% IRR, 7 years period

📍 Saudi Arabia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2025
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Series A investor
Dec 2025
Compute is a commodity. We think people should buy it like one. Startups shouldn’t be forced to buy a year’s worth of compute time in order to get market rate and compute providers shouldn’t go bankrupt because they can’t fully book their clusters. At SF Compute , our goal is to solve this issue the same way this was solved for every other commodity — by building a venue where compute contracts are traded in real-time and by bringing a new kind of participant into the supply chain, traders. Buyers will be able to get a good price for any order, whether it’s 32 H100s for a month or 8,000 H100s for an hour, and sellers will instantly book out their clusters because traders will speculatively buy them, for a spread. Every FLOP will flow through us somewhere in the supply chain. What Brent is for oil, we will be for compute.
Series A investor
Sep 2025
The AI platform for human intelligence that will match 1 billion people with their dream role.
Investor
Jul 2025
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide and over 500,000 business users, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
Seed investor
Dec 2024
Akash Systems, Inc. is a venture-backed, late-stage, Bay Area company that makes and sells Diamond Cooled GPU-based servers to AI companies, Cloud Service Providers, and data centers worldwide. The deep tech company pioneered Diamond Cooling® technology wherein the world’s most thermally conductive material, lab-grown diamond, is brought into intimate contact with GPUs – the densest heat source chip in a modern high compute server. The resulting Akash server is one that exhibits more compute in FLOPS (>50%) and FLOPS per Watt (by 2x) than any other server in the market today. Akash’s Diamond Cooled servers also reduce the energy cost of cooling the entire data center since the servers can operate in an ambient temperature of up to 120oF. The company’s lead investors include Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund. Akash Systems recently deployed its Diamond Cooling® technology in space, where many Akash satellite radios are now in operation.
Seed Investor
Dec 2023
Neurophos makes the OPU, a photonic AI chip that delivers the performance of a 3,000-pound server in the size and power envelope of a single GPU. Neurophos’ novel optical “transistor” unlocks terawatt-scale compute at a gigawatt-scale footprint, fitting millions of weights in the area of a postage stamp, that would otherwise occupy a full square-meter.
Seed Investor
Nov 2023
Wispr Flow (available on Mac, iPhone, Windows, and Android) lets you speak naturally and see your words perfectly formatted with no extra edits, no typos. It’s the easiest way to write 4x faster across all your apps.
Series A investor
Oct 2023
Impulse Space, the in-space mobility company, is accelerating our future beyond Earth beginning with a fleet of cost-effective, high-performance space vehicles. Founded by Tom Mueller and led by a team of industry pioneers, Impulse Space is transforming in-space mobility by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.
investor
Apr 2023
We started with a simple idea: the things you use most often should be the best things you own. This led us to invent. Opal has been working on new things that may surprise even you. So much has changed in technology, and so much of technology is stuck in the lab. Opal is building a series of new devices, that give consumers exciting new abilities. Its more than cameras.
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2025
Series A investor
Dec 2025
Compute is a commodity. We think people should buy it like one. Startups shouldn’t be forced to buy a year’s worth of compute time in order to get market rate and compute providers shouldn’t go bankrupt because they can’t fully book their clusters. At SF Compute , our goal is to solve this issue the same way this was solved for every other commodity — by building a venue where compute contracts are traded in real-time and by bringing a new kind of participant into the supply chain, traders. Buyers will be able to get a good price for any order, whether it’s 32 H100s for a month or 8,000 H100s for an hour, and sellers will instantly book out their clusters because traders will speculatively buy them, for a spread. Every FLOP will flow through us somewhere in the supply chain. What Brent is for oil, we will be for compute.
Series A investor
Sep 2025
The AI platform for human intelligence that will match 1 billion people with their dream role.
Investor
Jul 2025
Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide and over 500,000 business users, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
2024
Seed investor
Dec 2024
Akash Systems, Inc. is a venture-backed, late-stage, Bay Area company that makes and sells Diamond Cooled GPU-based servers to AI companies, Cloud Service Providers, and data centers worldwide. The deep tech company pioneered Diamond Cooling® technology wherein the world’s most thermally conductive material, lab-grown diamond, is brought into intimate contact with GPUs – the densest heat source chip in a modern high compute server. The resulting Akash server is one that exhibits more compute in FLOPS (>50%) and FLOPS per Watt (by 2x) than any other server in the market today. Akash’s Diamond Cooled servers also reduce the energy cost of cooling the entire data center since the servers can operate in an ambient temperature of up to 120oF. The company’s lead investors include Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund. Akash Systems recently deployed its Diamond Cooling® technology in space, where many Akash satellite radios are now in operation.
2023
Seed Investor
Dec 2023
Neurophos makes the OPU, a photonic AI chip that delivers the performance of a 3,000-pound server in the size and power envelope of a single GPU. Neurophos’ novel optical “transistor” unlocks terawatt-scale compute at a gigawatt-scale footprint, fitting millions of weights in the area of a postage stamp, that would otherwise occupy a full square-meter.
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