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Top 25 Event-driven hedge funds based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 514 event-driven hedge funds headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 8,487 professional contacts across them, including 5,277 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers event-driven hedge funds headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest event-driven hedge funds based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,716 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with $223 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2025.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 937 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1988, Schonfeld is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund with an investing footprint that spans five continents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 381 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We dynamically pursue opportunities, creating value in everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 310 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Magnetar Capital is a leading alternative asset manager with offices in Evanston, Ill, New York and London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 241 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “King Street Capital Management, L.P.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 221 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1990, Canyon employs a deep value, credit intensive approach across public and private corporate credit, structured credit, and direct real estate lending and investing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 30 years, Weiss Asset Management has developed proprietary value-based investment strategies designed to deliver high risk-adjusted returns to our investors, who include…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Kennedy Lewis Investment Management is an opportunistic credit manager focusing on event-driven situations in which a catalyst may unlock investment value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Holocene Advisors, LP (“Holocene”) is an investment management firm that pursues a sector-diversified long/short equity strategy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Taconic Capital is an alternative investment manager that specializes in finding opportunity in market complexity, dislocation and inefficiency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Columbia Pacific Advisors, LLC (CPA) and its affiliates manage a variety of alternative investment strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “More than a market neutral pioneer, we invest in people, partnerships, and a purposeful future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Corbin Capital Partners is a majority women-owned independent alternative asset management firm that specializes in multi-strategy hedge fund and opportunistic credit investing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Interval Partners, LP (“Interval”) is an alternative investment firm focused on generating uncorrelated alpha through diversified standalone investment strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “EJF Capital (“EJF”) is a global alternative asset management firm specializing in regulatory event-driven investing across financial services and real estate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EagleTree Capital, LP is the investment manager of the EagleTree Partners’ investment funds with $4.4 billion of assets under management (as of December 31, 2025).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Knighthead Capital Management, LLC is a New York-based SEC registered investment adviser founded in 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alpine Global is an investment firm with a breadth of sophisticated trading strategies across global markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “VR Capital is an alternative asset manager focused on distressed securities and event-driven/special situations investments with a strong historical orientation towards emerging…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over fifteen years, Magnitude Capital has built and managed global, multi-strategy hedge-fund portfolios and related vehicles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Paceline is a Dallas-based private equity manager focused on value-oriented and special situations investments across real assets, corporate debt, and private equity in all market…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Penn Capital Management is a Philadelphia-based boutique investment manager offering small, small-mid, and micro cap equity and high yield credit strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over two decades, Owl Creek Asset Management, L.P.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Investment adviser specializing in event-driven relative value trading strategies, including convertible arbitrage, international commercial arbitration, alternative energy, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Meteora Capital, LLC is an investment adviser founded in 2021 by Vikas Mittal specializing in event driven, arbitrage, credit and SPAC investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: event-driven hedge funds. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names event-driven hedge funds.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of event-driven hedge funds, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name event-driven hedge funds. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Event-driven hedge funds based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 514 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among event-driven hedge funds, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “event-driven hedge funds”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names event-driven hedge funds), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among event-driven hedge funds, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,277 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names event-driven hedge funds, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many event-driven hedge funds are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 514 event-driven hedge funds headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Oaktree Capital Management, L.P, headquartered in Los Angeles, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most event-driven hedge funds?
New York leads with 162 headquartered companies, followed by Dallas (21) and Los Angeles (17).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 5,277 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 514 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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