SEIC’s Investor Interact 2026 has assembled a wide-ranging lineup of investors, industry leaders, and financial experts for two days of pitches and real investment conversations with founders from its Cohort 1, scheduled for July 30 and 31, 2026 at the Sindh Enterprise Incubation Center. The breadth of the confirmed panel spans venture capital, structured finance, corporate leadership, tax advisory, and industry expertise, giving Cohort 1 founders exposure to a considerably wider range of investment and business perspectives than a more narrowly focused pitch event might typically offer.
Among the confirmed participants, Saad Masud, CEO at Sustainable Environment Developers Limited, joins alongside Muhammad Ali Taufiq, Director of Investments at Gobi Partners, and Ambreen Asif Qureshi, Vice President at Intellect Consultants. Ahmed Rauf Essa, Founder of Telemart and AreVentures, brings direct entrepreneurial and investment experience to the panel, having built and scaled a recognisable Pakistani venture himself before moving into an investment role. Muhammad Muzzammil Munaf, Partner at Empirica, and Mohsin Jalil Khan, Partner and CEO at Providus, round out a segment of the lineup with backgrounds spanning private equity and technology-focused investment.
Aamir Haider Butt, an entrepreneur and corporate leader bringing expertise from NeuroMystics, joins alongside Athar Khan, Managing Director and Executive Director at Happy Palace Group of Schools and Academus International School, giving the panel additional representation from the education sector. Mohammad Hassan, Unit Head of Venture Capital and Structured Finance at JS Bank, brings an institutional banking perspective on venture investment, while Raza Zaidi, Partner at Syed Shabbar Zaidi and Co, and Dawood Khan, Managing Partner at Dawood Saif and Co, add tax and financial advisory expertise relevant to the compliance and structuring considerations founders often underestimate when preparing for investment.
Rounding out the confirmed lineup, Muhammad Naveed Alam joins as an Industry Representative bringing valuable industry insight to founders, while Atiq ur Rehman contributes expertise in Enterprise Risk and Internal Controls, an area of growing relevance for startups as they scale and take on more institutional investment. Taken together, this diverse investor and expert lineup positions Investor Interact 2026 as considerably more than a standard pitch competition, giving Cohort 1 founders structured access to a genuinely broad cross-section of Pakistan’s investment, financial advisory, and industry expertise over the course of the two-day event at SEIC.
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