Founders, funds, and sponsors come to Inaya for capital raising and private market deal origination. Every mandate is run from the principal's chair, by people who have raised and sold on their own account. The mandate is assessed and positioned before the market is ever engaged, so that what reaches it is already clear and defensible.
At Inaya, we blend the discipline of institutional capital advisory with the instincts of modern origination. Our clients are fund managers, sponsors, founders, and private wealth principals. We pride ourselves on being operators first, advisors second, bringing a practical, ownership-driven view to every mandate.
With deep transactional experience across capital formation, M&A, and private wealth, we bring more than advice. Whether the mandate is a fund raise, a real estate or infrastructure project, growth capital, or a private wealth introduction, every engagement is qualified before it begins and built to close.
Inaya holds standing relationships with allocators, family offices, and private wealth principals across the Gulf, Europe, North America, and APAC. These are direct relationships built over years, which is why an introduction from Inaya arrives already warm.
When you are raising, the difficulty is rarely the merit of the business. It is reaching the allocators whose mandate actually fits yours, in the order that builds momentum rather than spends it, and arriving in front of them already understood, framed as the opportunity it is rather than one more deck in the pile.
We identify the allocators suited to each mandate and prepare them before the first conversation, so the raise reaches them already positioned to be understood on its own terms.
Not every situation calls for capital. A founder may be weighing a full exit, a family a succession, a principal the sale of a minority stake, each resting on judgment well before it rests on price. We advise them through the whole of it, from how it is positioned and valued to how it is structured and timed.
We take one situation at a time and confirm fit on both sides before any conversation begins, so the counterparty in the room is one with genuine reason to be there.
Hundreds of situations pass through our coverage each year, the majority of which warrant no more than an initial review.
A preliminary discussion to determine whether the situation merits mutual engagement, with no obligation on either side.
We evaluate the mandate and the counterparty against our internal threshold, and you receive a candid read on where it stands.
Substantive work commences once fit and timing are established, each a precondition rather than a formality.
A select share of screened situations is ultimately taken on, and that discipline is what gives an Inaya introduction its standing with the parties who receive it.
Twenty-four years placing institutional capital at the $100M to $1B level across HSBC, Citicorp, and SMBC, within a career spanning nearly four decades. Directed $7B+ in pension assets at HSBC North America and served as Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of two of America's public pension systems, growing one from approximately $8 billion to nearly $20 billion across 27 portfolios.
Led the $40 billion Texas Municipal Retirement System to back-to-back top-quartile returns, a first in the system's history. Named to ISS's Power 100 Chief Investment Officers. University of Chicago.
Comes to private markets from origination, the function most advisory firms outsource and Inaya treats as the core of the practice. Anas runs mandates from the principal's chair, from initial assessment through allocator engagement and close, across North America, Europe, and the Gulf.
The person who wins the mandate is the person who runs it. That principle shapes how the firm operates and how every engagement is staffed and delivered.
The strategist behind the firm's growth and coverage. Shayan designs how Inaya reaches capital at institutional scale, and how that reach compounds mandate over mandate rather than resetting with each one. His thinking shapes which allocators see which mandates, and in what order.
He determines where the firm's coverage points next across North America, Europe, and the Gulf, making the capital allocation decisions on the firm's own time and attention before a single introduction is made.
Over two decades of experience across principal-level advisory, deal execution, and company building. Abbas has founded and operated multiple businesses and brings the commercial judgment of someone who has sat in the same seat as the principals he advises.
He leads all discovery, qualification, and closing conversations with Managing Directors, Partners, and Founders across private equity, venture capital, and M&A advisory firms. Every client relationship at Inaya runs through his desk.