# Farah Khan

> Farah Khan is a funding round investor at L Catterton (New York) backing Sales and Retail. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [L Catterton](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lcatterton)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Apr 2023
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farah-khan-14134

Farah Khan is a funding round investor at L Catterton in New York focused on Sales and Retail. Ms. Khan is a Managing Partner at Catterton Partners. Prior to joining Catterton, Ms. Khan was a Vice President at Sandler Capital Management where she focused on growth equity, leveraged buyouts and financings of middle market companies. Prior to Sandler, Ms. Khan worked at Apax Partners, a global private equity firm where she focused ongrowth capital and leveraged buyouts in the retail and consumer product sectors. Prior to Apax, she worked in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, where she focused on corporate finance and M&A coverage of retail, media and technology companies based in both New York and Menlo Park.Ms. Khan is a Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a B.A. degree in Economics and Mathematics. She received an M.B.A from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sales | 1 | 50% |
| Retail | 1 | 50% |
| Fashion | 1 | 50% |
| Shopping | 1 | 50% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 1 | 50% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ben & Frank | Ben & Frank provides an online optical store intended to disrupt the traditional optical market. Its portal offers fashionable glasses of various types such as anti-reflective, polycarbonate, anti-scratch, polarized, and UV resistant glasses as well as vision testing system, enabling consumers to have access to affordable glasses. |  |  | Apr 25, 2023 |  |
| Ben & Frank | Ben & Frank provides an online optical store intended to disrupt the traditional optical market. Its portal offers fashionable glasses of various types such as anti-reflective, polycarbonate, anti-scratch, polarized, and UV resistant glasses as well as vision testing system, enabling consumers to have access to affordable glasses. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 21, 2021 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DILA Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dila-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Nazca Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nazca-ventures-3) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About L Catterton

VC Fund · Greenwich, United States

L Catterton provides capital to companies to support acquisitions, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and turnarounds. They consider investments across many targeted industry verticals within the consumer industry: food and beverage, retail and restaurants, consumer products and services, and media and marketing services.

5 contacts available at L Catterton.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew C. Taub | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-c-taub |
| Avik Pramanik | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avik-pramanik |
| Chinta Bhagat | Managing Partner of its Asia funds | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chinta-bhagat |
| Chris Roberts | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-roberts-2 |
| Farah Khan | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/farah-khan |

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## FAQ

### What does Farah Khan invest in?

Farah Khan invests primarily in Sales, Retail and Fashion startups, most often at Funding Round and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Mexico. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Farah Khan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Farah Khan closed in Apr 2023. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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