TWIN HILLS
PARTNERS
FUNDS PLACEMENT & CAPITAL RAISING
CAPITAL | PARTNERSHIP | GROWTH
Mission & Approach
Bridging critical sovereign infrastructure with strategic capital
Innovation, disruption, transformation: the words are cheap, the infrastructure is not. Across the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia, states are rebuilding what they had outsourced — and the capital deciding those questions is looking for someone who can tell the real from the marketed.
Four worlds are converging and they do not speak to each other: artificial intelligence, energy, sovereign cloud, and sovereign capital. Each has its own language, its own timelines, its own idea of what constitutes proof.
The people who run one rarely sit in the room where another is being decided. That gap is where we work — as the placement agent who saw the coherence first and has standing on both sides of it.
Capital is not scarce. Judgement about where it should go is. The difference between a good decision and a costly one is knowing which technology is real, and which counterparty will still be there in five years.
We take a small number of mandates where we have a genuine relational claim. Every approach is preceded by our own diligence, conducted on our own account, because our reputation travels with the introduction and does not survive a bad one.
Qualified leads under a defined mandate — the shortest path to a closing that holds.
Strategic Capital & Business Development Advisory
Where sovereign capital meets sovereign cloud, and technology leads the political move
Funds Placement
Capital formation and add-on investments under written mandate. We identify eligible investors and carry the offering on the principal's materials.
Seed & Growth Capital
Founders introduced to the private funds that should be backing them — venture through growth. Diligence done before the introduction, never after.
Business Development
Landing partner for startups entering the Middle East: incubation, go-to-market, local partnerships — and the capital that follows. End to end, or any part of it.
Our Solutions
Technology decides the political move. The capital follows.
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Design the market entry and the outreach
Where sovereign funds now meet sovereign cloud, the state is the counterparty and governance is the gate. We build the strategy for that room — market entry, local partnerships, the sequence that works.
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Lead the execution, not just the plan
Sixteen years of relationships turned into qualified opportunities. Every approach is tested on our own account before it is made — the introduction carries our name.
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Drive the local partnership and expansion
Build in-country, capture the value locally. Access built on projects delivered, not conferences attended — the introduction is warm because the history is real.
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Connect to the capital that is not obvious
Beyond the blue-chip sovereign funds: the pools that deploy when it touches their core operations and carries a local angle. We hold the frame to closing, without standing between the parties and their advisors.
- 16 yrsMiddle East Africa & Asia
- NationalScale programmes where the client was a state
- Sweet SpotSovereign Cloud Governance & Capital
Samir Sehil, Founder
Sixteen years inside the technology that sovereign capital is now buying
Samir built his career in telecom, lawful intercept, encryption, data localisation and cybersecurity — on staff at Intersec, Myriad and Thales. These are not sectors adjacent to government. They are sectors where the state is the counterparty, and where sovereignty was never a marketing category.
Programmes of that kind are not won on price. They are won because a government decides it trusts the people delivering them — slower to build, more durable to hold.
That leaves three assets, and they compound. A network that no longer resembles a client list: the engineers and directors of a decade ago now run national programmes or direct the capital that funds them. Knowing what a state actually means when it says it wants control of its data — which technologies deliver that, and which merely claim it. And the ability to turn both into business development: reading where the technology is going, and placing the right partner in front of it before the market does.
He has also acted as a landing partner for startups entering the Middle East — incubation, go-to-market, local partnerships, and the introductions to capital that follow. The same instinct, applied earlier in a company's life: read where the market is going, and put the right people in the room before it is obvious.
The region's sovereign funds are oil-driven. AI needs two things above all — energy and capital. The region has both. The missing piece is the technology, and knowing which of it is real.
