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Sameer Ahmed Khan is the cofounder and CEO of Social Champ, a social media management platform endorsed by Guy Kawasaki and accelerated by Techstars Toronto. Built on the wreckage of three failed startups, Social Champ now serves teams in 100+ countries and publishes tens of millions of posts every month.

Sameer Ahmed Khan is the cofounder and CEO of Social Champ, a social media management platform endorsed by Guy Kawasaki, backed by the Oman Technology Fund, and accelerated by Techstars Toronto in 2022. Born in Karachi and raised in Qatar, Sameer holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Karachi (1st in his class, 2nd overall). After three failed startups (GameOChat, Educating Dreams, RemindZapp), he built Social Champ into a platform publishing tens of millions of posts every month across 100+ countries. He has delivered TEDx talks, spoken at Web Summit Lisbon and Slush’D Karachi, and mentored founders at Founder Institute Toronto and Techstars in 2023.

Sameer Ahmed Khan is the cofounder and CEO of Social Champ, a social media management platform used in 100+ countries, publishing tens of millions of posts every month. The platform is endorsed by Guy Kawasaki ("I use Pakistani product every day, it’s called Social Champ"), backed by the Oman Technology Fund, and was accelerated by Techstars Toronto in 2022. He runs it with his university batchmates and cofounders Zohaib Ahmed Shakir (CTO), who coded the original prototype as a birthday gift to Sameer, and Shakir Ghani (COO).

Born in Karachi in 1990 and raised in Qatar, Sameer earned a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Karachi (1st in his class, 2nd overall). Before Social Champ he survived three failed startups (GameOChat, Educating Dreams, RemindZapp), funded by the consultancy he cofounded, OuzelSystems. His TEDx talk "The Power of Influence" (TEDxNUSTKarachi, 2017) and his trademark "Startup Survival Guide" keynote draw on those failures.

He has spoken at Web Summit Lisbon, Slush’D Karachi, Collision Conference Toronto, Techstars Demo Day, and at events with Microsoft, Nokia, IEEE, USAID, and others. He mentored founders at Founder Institute Toronto and Techstars Mentor Madness in 2023, and previously led the Facebook Developer Circle in Karachi.

Beyond the boardroom, Sameer is a passionate spearfisher in the Arabian Sea. His spearfishing channel earned YouTube’s Silver Play Button in February 2026 and now has more than 200,000 subscribers. He has visited 11 countries on a Pakistani passport and is an INFP who writes poems with dark openings and hopeful endings.

Sameer lives in Karachi with his family.