Overview
SEED Ventures (Social, Entrepreneurship, and Equity Development), established in 2009, pioneers social impact ecosystem development and investment. Our mission is to empower social entrepreneurs and amplify traditional entrepreneurship’s social impact. Collaborating with public, development, and private sector partners, we create innovative financial mechanisms to address socio-economic challenges.
Focused on nurturing change-makers, empowering youth and women, and fostering social inclusion, we support nano-, micro-, small enterprises, and start-ups. Through four key portfolios—children, youth, women, and marginalized communities—we tailor solutions to meet diverse needs.
With research, advocacy, capacity building, innovation, market linkages, and finance access, we cultivate enabling ecosystems for sustainable social impact.
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Our Mission
Create transformational change at an individual, community, institutional, and systemic level through ecosystem development and impact investment.
Individual
Individual transformation in our beneficiaries is reflected in three ways: The development of awareness and understanding through capacity development; the practical application of that new knowledge in any aspect of their lives; and consequently changes in the beneficiaries that benefit the community they live in.
Institutional
To create an institutional change, we work to transform the ideas that govern institutions in terms of how they believe they can create impact, help them identify new avenues for collaboration, and demonstrate how they can create sustainable, positive change in the communities in which they operate.
Community
For positive impact to sustain itself, community buy-in is necessary.This is why we engage with the communities where we operate. A measure of how a community otherwise dormant either adopts positive practices, changes its narrative, or collaborates to support its members is how we ascertain transformational change at a community level.
Systematic
Systemic change is the fourth and most important pillar of sustainable transformation. Through advocacy and our interventions, we address the processes, norms, or structures that obstruct the path of sustainable change, and we work with systemic partners to create sustainable and scalable impacts.
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Children
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Youth-led Enterprises
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Women-led Enterprises
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Marginalised Community-Led Enterprises
Our Portfolios
Children
We aspire to create socially responsible entrepreneurs for the future through the development of creative and critical thinking skills, an understanding of social impact and sustainability, and building entrepreneurial zeal.
Youth
We want to empower youth to become socially aware and responsible entrepreneurs, and enable them to resolve socio-economic challenges through innovation.
Women
Our vision for this portfolio is to create a business environment that supports the development of women entrepreneurs through provision of business knowledge, digital and financial literacy, access to safe spaces, mentors, markets, and finance.
Transgenders
We want to increase the social inclusion of the trans community through economic empowerment, building access to health care, and educating them and other stakeholders about them and their rights.
Refugees
We want to develop the entrepreneurial capacity of refugees in the country by enabling them to run their businesses, helping them become economically self-reliant and contribute to the economy of Pakistan.
Differently Abled
We want to encourage a growth-oriented mindset in the differently-abled through entrepreneurship, building their capacity to run their businesses and create transformational change in their communities.
What Our Beneficiaries Are Saying
“I am happy to say that I have a clear vision for my brand; I see a great change in my life, thanks to SEED Ventures. During our conversations with the RISE team, I was given the courage to take a leap of faith for my business.”
Jabeen Yaqoob
“Enterprise Challenge Pakistan made us look into businesses more holistically – we learned how to integrate different concepts, such as marketing and sustainability in a business through our mentoring sessions.”
Husnain
“Thanks to DELTA, my childhood dream of becoming an entrepreneur has finally become a reality. Surrounded by supportive women and guided by Team DELTA, I found the encouragement and resources needed to launch my very own business.”
Lubna Shahnawaz
Our Partners
