Feroz Khan

Feroz Khan is a Sydney-based investment banker and technology investor with a career centred on mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance in the Technology, Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications (TMET) sector. According to his FMK Capital Partners biography, he has over two decades of investment banking experience and has advised on more than A$800 million in transactions across buy-side and sell-side M&A, cross-border deals, joint ventures, restructurings and IPOs. He holds a Master of Commerce in Finance and a Master of Commerce in Business, both from Macquarie University, and his earlier career included roles in banking in Pakistan (Bank Alfalah and Meezan Bank) before he moved into technology-focused corporate advisory in Australia.

At Newport Capital Group — Australia's longest-established licensed M&A investment banking firm (founded 1989, based in Sydney and dedicated to the TMET sector) — Khan worked in TMT M&A corporate advisory, the role tied to his [hidden] address. He subsequently founded FMK Capital Partners in 2021, a boutique M&A and corporate-finance advisory offering "confidential, unconflicted, strategic advice" to technology and technology-enabled businesses, with particular emphasis on Information Technology, Digital Media and Telecommunications.

Beyond his advisory work, Khan is an active early-stage investor. He is listed as a Venture Investor and "VU Investor Fellow" with VU Venture Partners, a multi-stage global venture fund investing across Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech, Frontier, Healthcare and PropTech. He describes himself as passionate about transformative companies that leverage technology to disrupt traditional industries and drive social progress, drawing on more than a decade of experience spanning venture capital, M&A and growth strategy, with a focus on technology, media and frontier tech.

• Invests in and advises technology and technology-enabled businesses, especially Information Technology, Digital Media and Telecommunications (the TMET/TMT sectors that anchor his M&A career).
• Early-stage orientation: through VU Venture Partners, the fund backs startups from Pre-Seed through Series B, with initial cheques of roughly US$100K–$1M and follow-on capacity up to ~US$10M.
• Stated interest in "transformative companies that leverage technology to disrupt traditional industries and drive social progress," with an explicit lean toward frontier tech in addition to consumer, enterprise and fintech.
• As an M&A advisor, he values strategically positioned, acquirable technology businesses — companies with defensible positions in IT distribution, digital media and telecom where consolidation or exit creates value.