King Charles confers prestigious MBE award on Pakistani entrepreneur

Faraz Khan, founder of Karachi-based venture capitalist firm received award for his services to strengthen Pak-UK ties

Faraz Khan, founder of Karachi-based venture capitalist firm SEED Ventures, has been awarded United Kingdom’s MBE title — Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Khan was conferred with the prestigious award by UK’s King Charles III for his services to strengthen Pakistan-UK bilateral ties.

The MBE is awarded in recognition of contribution to arts, sciences, charitable work, welfare work, and public service.

Honour to present pakistan story of enterprise chalange to HRH pic.twitter.com/G6kRwFBokf

— Faraz Khan MBE (@fksquared) April 20, 2018

Khan is the founder of Social, Entrepreneurship & Equity Development (SEED) Ventures which is an investment and impact development organisation in Pakistan.

Within 10 years, Khan has taken the group from an idea to a sustainable organisation, with a turnover of $40 million for SEED and its portfolio companies, according to his LinkedIn profile.

We are delighted to announce @fksquared, Founder and Director @seedventuresorg has been awarded an MBE in New Year's Honours by His Majesty King Charles III for services to UK/Pakistan relations.https://t.co/cK4ZyoLs2f pic.twitter.com/x317HNfLzE

— SEED Ventures (@seedventuresorg) December 31, 2022

With a strong base in the UK, he has been able to create collaborations and partnerships at a local and global level with public, private, development, media, academia and financial sectors.

The profile said Khan has mobilised these partnerships to raise multimillion dollar funds through cross-sectorial investment architecture with vehicles like corporate impact venturing, blended finance, co-investments and public private partnerships.

“He has spearheaded impact programmes & collaborations between UK & Pakistan in the space of inclusive education, enterprise, social enterprise for youth, women and Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) segments impacting and engaging over 100,000 people.”