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. The firm is led by people who have built and run businesses themselves, and each mandate is approached with the practical view of an owner.
With deep transactional experience across capital formation, M&A, and private wealth, we bring more than advice. The firm acts on fund raises, real estate and infrastructure projects, growth capital and private wealth introductions, and every engagement is qualified before it begins and built to close.
Direct relationships across four regions. 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. Introductions are made personally, and only to investors whose mandate fits.
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. We run that process from positioning through to close.
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.
A conversation with our Client Advisor about what you are raising and the timeline you are working to. You come away with a direct first read on how the raise is likely to land with allocators.
Our senior team works through your materials and terms. Within 48 to 72 hours you have a clear answer on whether we would take the mandate, and what we would change before any investor sees it.
We shape the materials and the terms around the questions an investment committee asks before it commits, so your mandate is defensible on every point before it reaches a single allocator.
The raise goes first to the pension funds, family offices, endowments and institutions we work with across the United States, Europe and the Gulf, in the order most likely to bring early commitments.
We prepare every investor meeting with you and attend the ones that decide the outcome. Diligence questions are handled as they arrive, so momentum holds from the first meeting to the commitment.
We stay in the conversations that decide the commitment, from the first indications of interest through to final terms and side letters, until the capital is committed and the raise is closed.
Where our network does not cover the full raise, we extend it to further investors selected for the fund, with an approach written for each of them and the same preparation behind every meeting.
Once the capital is in, we keep the relationships we opened working for you through regular contact on your behalf, so your next raise starts with investors who already know you and how you deliver.
Nearly four decades in institutional capital, from HSBC, Citicorp and SMBC to two US public pension systems, which he served as Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer. Directed more than $7B in pension assets at HSBC North America, grew the North Dakota Retirement and Investment Office from approximately $8 billion to nearly $20 billion, and led the $40 billion Texas Municipal Retirement System to two consecutive years of top-quartile returns.
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Comes to private markets from origination, the function most advisory firms outsource and Inaya treats as the core of the practice. Anas supervises every mandate from the principal's chair, from initial assessment through allocator engagement and close, across North America, Europe, and the Gulf.
As Managing Partner, Anas holds final authority on every mandate the firm accepts, and signs each engagement on the firm's behalf. 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.
Shayan leads the firm's growth and investor coverage across North America, Europe and the Gulf, and decides which investors each mandate reaches, and in what order. He designs how Inaya reaches capital at institutional scale, so that its reach compounds mandate over mandate rather than resetting with each one.
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. He leads the firm's client conversations from the first call through to engagement.