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Our CEO, Evan Katz, interviewed Anthony Scaramucci yesterday. Anthony was the very informative keynote speaker at the big annual Quinnipiac University asset management GAME Forum. The many attendees enjoyed Anthony’s fascinating presentation, and his in-depth conversation and Q&A with Evan, and everyone appreciated his manifest finance, investment and asset mangement expertise. Thanks, Anthony!

Today, I was a panel moderator and expert guest speaker (regarding alternative investment funds, institutional investors, family offices, and successful fundraising) at the big annual Informa “EMex” emerging manager conference and investor pitch event at Grant Thornton’s headquarters in Manhattan. Thank you to Informa, G.T., my fellow panelists (Dimitri Sogoloff and Kasia Kostun) and the other speakers for an excellent and highly informative conference. Congratulations and kudos to all!

Award-winning hedge fund fundraiser Evan Katz, the CEO of Crawford Ventures, Inc., spoke this month at the N.Y. Alumni Club of the Columbia University Business School, a globally ranked top 20 MBA program. Mr. Katz was a panelist and guest speaker at Columbia's May 11 video webinar regarding private funds. Mr. Katz spoke as an expert regarding hedge funds, the state of the industry, hedge fund best practices, institutional and family office investors, and how established and emerging managers can best grow their businesses, do successful large-scale fundraising, and substantially increase their hedge funds’ AUM. You can watch a complimentary replay of the webinar at http://bit.ly/EHK-CBS. fund

From Yesterday's Albourne Village (5-3-22): Regarding our CEO, Evan Katz, being a panelist and expert guest speaker at next Wednesday's (5-11-22) Columbia University video webinar regarding hedge funds, formation, fundraising, operations, compliance/legal, etc. If you would like to attend the video webinar, the registration link is https://www.cbsacny.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1634150&group=

Investors for Hedge Funds! — If you work at or with a great hedge or private equity fund that is looking for more investors, and to start or grow an alternative investment fund into a large and successful fund, feel free to register for the upcoming May 11 video webinar with the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York. Our CEO, Evan Katz, will be a panelist and expert guest speaker regarding best practices for forming, fundraising and growing large private funds, such as hedge funds, and how they can best raise very substantial investor capital. You can register for the Columbia private funds webinar at https://www.cbsacny.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1634150&group=.
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Relatedly, do you know any compelling hedge funds that are looking for more investors and to grow their AUM? We ask because our vast hedge fund investor base (~1,000 institutional investors and family offices) allocates hundreds of billions of dollars to hedge funds (typically $10-$100+ million per investor per fund) and we are looking for a few more great funds. So, please e-mail our CEO, Evan Katz ([email protected]), if you know any compelling hedge funds that are looking to grow their AUM. Thanks.

*** CRAWFORD IS HIRING! *** -- Due to ever-increasing demand, Crawford is looking to hire and bring on board another top alternative investment sales, fundraising and investor relations professional. So, if you are one, or know someone who is, please forward your or his/her CV to me, at [email protected], and be sure to put "Fundraiser Position" in the e-mail subject line. Hedge fund sales/fundraising experience is a must, and Series 7/63 is preferred. Have a great day, and thanks. Crawford Ventures, Inc. Evan Katz

Albourne Village Article re Evan Katz USC MBA Hedge Fund, Investor and Fundraising Class and Video — You can watch Evan's MBA class on the Crawford YouTube channel at https://bit.ly/EHK-USC. (The class ran over by a minute, so the video ends just a little bit early.) And you also can follow along with Evan's hedge fund, investor and fundraising PowerPoint presentation (from late 2020), by downloading his PPT at https://bit.ly/EHK-PPT.

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HEDGE FUND, INVESTOR AND FUNDRAISING CLASS AND VIDEO -- Our CEO, Evan Katz, was asked by the University of Southern California (“USC”) Marshall School of Business (a globally ranked top-20 MBA program) to be a guest lecturer and to teach an MBA hedge fund class. And he just taught a USC MBA class, where he spoke as an expert regarding hedge funds, the state of the industry, hedge fund best practices, institutional and family office investors, and how established and emerging managers can best do successful large-scale fundraising and substantially increase their hedge funds’ AUM. You can watch Evan's USC MBA hedge fund class on the Crawford hedge fund, investor and fundraising YouTube channel, by going to https://bit.ly/EHK-USC. (The class ran over by a minute, so the video ends just a little bit early.) And you also can follow along with his PowerPoint presentation (from late 2020), by downloading his PPT by going to https://bit.ly/EHK-PPT. FYI, Evan's presentation and PPT contain dozens of actionable hedge fund tips, tricks and best practices, including many regarding how hedge funds can best raise very substantial investor capital from institutional investors and family office allocators. Hope everyone enjoys and learns a lot from the presentation and PPT!

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Hedge Fund Investor & Fundraising Video — For all PM's, funds and service providers that would like to learn more about investors, fundraising, and many capital raising tips, tricks and best practices, check out our CEO Evan Katz's appearance on this month’s Family Office Club "Capital Raiser Hot Seat” (https://bit.ly/FOC-CRH). Evan is interviewed as an expert regarding hedge funds, alternative investments, institutional investors, family offices, and how to successfully do large-scale fundraising from these big allocators. And there is a lot of actionable fundraising content in his interview. Also, to automatically be notified of all of our hedge fund industry updates, investor mandates and fundraising videos, subscribe to the Crawford Ventures, Inc. YouTube channel at https://bit.ly/EHK-YouTube, and also be sure to then click on the notification bell icon. It all takes less than 10 seconds.

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***VOTING CLOSES TODAY (MONDAY) AT 7:00 P.M. EST! *** — If you have not yet voted in the Hedgeweek 2021 industry awards, it would mean a lot to us if you could please vote today for Crawford Ventures, Inc. as the best fundraising firm. To vote, please go to https://awards.hedgeweek.com/americas-awards-2021. The hedge fund fundraising “Third Party Marketing” ballot is towards the end of the “Service Provider” category of ballots, and you do not have to cast a vote for every category. So, you can select “Service Provider” voting only, and then scroll to “Third Party Marketing”. Thank you for considering Crawford Ventures for your vote as the hedge fund industry's top fundraising firm. As voting closes today, Monday (Labor Day) at 7:00 p.m. EST, please vote today. Thanks! Much appreciated. 😃

***IF YOU WORK IN FINANCE*** — If you have not yet voted in the Hedgeweek 2021 industry awards, it would mean a lot to us if you could please vote today for Crawford Ventures, Inc. as the best fundraising firm. To vote, please go to https://awards.hedgeweek.com/americas-awards-2021. The hedge fund fundraising “Third Party Marketing” ballot is towards the end of the “Service Provider” category of ballots, and you do not have to cast a vote for every category. So, you can select “Service Provider” voting only, and then scroll to “Third Party Marketing”. Thank you for considering Crawford Ventures for your vote as the hedge fund industry's top fundraising firm. As voting closes on Monday (Labor Day), please vote today. Thanks! Much appreciated. 😃

Albourne Village: "Crawford Ventures Nominated by Hedgeweek as Best Hedge Fund Fundraising Firm" — From Today's Albourne Village (8/11/21):

"Crawford Ventures Nominated by Hedgeweek as Best Hedge Fund Fundraising Firm"

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Crawford Ventures, Inc., the renowned Manhattan-based hedge fund fundraising firm, has been nominated by Hedgeweek, for its "Americas Awards 2021", as the best hedge fund fundraising firm. The nomination of Crawford is based on Hedgeweek's "widespread survey of more than 100 hedge fund managers and other key industry participants."

Evan Katz, Managing Director, who founded Crawford more than 18 years ago, said, “I am honored and very humbled to advise that Crawford has been nominated by Hedgeweek as the best hedge fund fundraising firm.” He added, “At Crawford, we have spent nearly two decades building longstanding and trusted relationships with 1,000 large and other institutional and family office investors, around the globe, including many of the world's leading allocators to hedge funds. We work very hard fundraising for our hedge fund and other alternative investment clients, and we are honored and humbled that Hedgeweek has recognized us as a top hedge fund fundraising firm.”

The Hedgeweek “Americas Awards 2021” voting is now open and continues through September 6, 2021. Hedge fund professionals and industry service provider professionals may cast their votes at https://awards.hedgeweek.com/americas-awards-2021 . The hedge fund fundraising and third-party marketing (“TPM”) ballot is the final service provider category ballot, and voters do not have to cast a vote for every category.

Crawford Ventures has been nominated by Hedgeweek as the industry’s top hedge fund fundraising firm! Hedgeweek’s "Americas Awards 2021", and its nomination of Crawford as the best hedge fund fundraising firm, are based on Hedgeweek's "widespread survey of more than 100 hedge fund managers and other key industry participants." If you work in the industry, thank you for considering Crawford for your vote for the industry's best hedge fund fundraising firm. To vote, go to https://awards.hedgeweek.com/americas-awards-2021. The hedge fund fundraising and third-party marketing ballot is the final service provider category ballot, and you do not have to cast a vote for every category. Have a great day, and thank you for considering Crawford for your vote as the hedge fund industry's top fundraising firm!

Hedge Fund Investor and Fundraising Webinar: Our CEO, Evan Katz, was just on the panel on Paul Gray’s very popular hedge fund and investor webinar series, “Capital Allocators Roundtable”, on which he is an expert guest speaker regarding hedge funds, investors, and how funds can best and most successfully do large-scale investor fundraising. To watch an in-depth discussion and Q&A regarding these important and timely topics, including a lot of actionable content, helpful fundraising tips and industry best practices, you can check out this hedge fund investor and fundraising webinar at http://bit.ly/EHK-CAR. And if you work with or otherwise know any compelling hedge or PE/VC funds (great team/track) that are looking for more investors and to substantially grow their AUM, please e-mail Evan at EKatzCrawfordVenturescom. Thanks!

Evan Katz, Crawford Ventures, on the "Capital Allocators Roundtable" (6-24-21) On one of the hedge fund and alternative investment industry’s premier and most popular webinar series, the "Capital Allocators Roundtable", our founder, Eva...

TODAY’S Podcast: (A) Hedge Funds, (B) Investors and (C) Successful Fundraising. Today, our CEO, Evan Katz, is a guest on Terrance J. O’Malley’s very popular hedge fund and asset management podcast, “Operational Leaders”, on which Tery interviews Evan as an expert regarding hedge funds, investors, and how funds can best and most successfully do large-scale investor fundraising. To hear an in-depth discussion and Q&A regarding these important and timely topics, including a lot of actionable content, helpful fundraising tips and industry best practices, check out today’s hedge fund fundraising podcast, at http://bit.ly/Operational-Leaders

Evan Katz on the ''Operational Leaders'' Hedge Fund Podcast (6-16-21) On one of the hedge fund and alternative investment industry’s premier and most popular podcasts, "Operational Leaders", our founder, Evan Katz, is interview...

Ok everybody in , now our CEO, Evan Katz, has joined the wonderful new invitation-only audio chat world of ! You can connect, follow and speak with him there at "EvanHKatz" (with the "H").

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Free Industry Update, Video and PPT re (A) Hedge and PE Funds, (B) Investors, and (C) Successful Large-Scale Fundraising, Even During COVID! Is your fund looking for more investors and to grow its AUM? If so, we are pleased to make available the video and PowerPoint from our CEO Evan Katz's presentation at the Penn Club's (NYC) "Bulls & Bears” Hedge Fund Society, at which he was an expert guest speaker regarding hedge funds, investors and large-scale fundraising.

So, if you are looking to significantly increase your fund’s AUM, feel free to watch the fundraising video at http://bit.ly/PennClub-BB-Video, and to download your complimentary copy of Evan's fundraising PPT, at http://bit.ly/PennClub-BB-PPT.

Also, if you work with or otherwise know any compelling alternative investment funds (HF/PE/VC/RE) that are looking for more investors and to substantially increase their AUM, please let Evan know ([email protected]), as our investor base is larger than ever, and allocates hundreds of billions of dollars to alternatives (typically $25-$250MM per investor per fund). Indeed, we have been proactively asked by investors to keep showing them compelling hedge and PE funds for their review and prospective investment.