

Crawford Ventures, Inc., headquartered in New York City, is a leading alternative asset investment firm that forms, grows, holds interests in, and raises very substantial investor capital for compelling hedge funds. Crawford was founded in 2003 by its CEO, Evan Katz, who has received numerous hedge fund awards and honors, and is an industry and media-recognized expert regarding hedge funds and successful fundraising. Mr. Katz presently serves as a twice-elected Director on the Hedge Fund Association (“HFA”) Board of Directors. Crawford has deep knowledge and expertise regarding all leading hedge fund strategies, and has longstanding high-level relationships with some 1,000 institutional and family office investors (e.g., endowments, foundations, funds of funds, insurance companies, multifamily offices, pensions, single-family offices, sovereign wealth funds), which collectively have several trillion dollars of investable assets, and allocate hundreds of billions of dollars to hedge funds (typically $10-$100+ million per investor per fund).