Built from the inside,
for everyone outside.

From Imperial to the trading floor

After graduating from Imperial College London, Burak began his career at a European long/short equity hedge fund as Junior Investment Analyst. He then joined B2C2 as a Quantitative Trader on the delta-one desk, focused on high-frequency market making.

That path ran through both sides of the industry: a fundamental seat at a hedge fund and a quant seat on a market making desk, and two completely different interview gauntlets to reach them. Burak founded Deltashark out of a conviction that the preparation for both has always been fragmented and prohibitively expensive. Scattered across narrow courses that teach a fraction of what the interviews actually demand, or locked inside master's programmes that cost a year's salary. He set out to build the complete preparation aspiring people deserve, for both kinds of desk, in one place, at a price an individual can afford.

The gap Deltashark closes

Before entering the industry, Burak went through the same path most aspirants face. Online courses, DCF templates, three-statement models, investing books, scattered mental math drills, and hours spent trying to piece together how professionals actually think and operate. The courses were useful up to a point. They stopped well short of what the interviews actually require.

Quant desks screen with timed arithmetic, sequences, market making games, probability questions, and cognitive batteries - formats you can only beat by training on them, under the same clocks. Fundamental desks test accounting fluency, valuation, modelling craft, and the discipline of a thesis a portfolio manager would act on. Two different gauntlets, and almost none of either is in the courses most aspirants rely on.

The complete preparation does exist. It is taught inside fund and trading desks, scattered across specialised resources, or locked behind master's programmes that cost a year's salary. For most of the people with the talent to do the work, none of those options are accessible. Deltashark gathers it all in one place, at a price an individual can afford.

What Deltashark set out to build

Deltashark was built as the all-in-one platform for breaking into quant trading and hedge funds, organised as two tracks that mirror the two kinds of desk.

The Quant track trains the assessments themselves: mental math and sequences to the real formats, market making and cognitive games modelled on the ones firms actually run, a bank of trader questions with worked solutions, and courses on the probability and statistics underneath. The Fundamental track builds the analyst's craft: accounting through valuation and sector mastery, interactive modelling labs on real company data, technical interview practice, and career preparation through to the pitch.

Not a simplified version. Not a fractional course. Paired with original research written by former hedge fund analysts, one membership covers everything an aspirant needs to break in, at a price an individual can afford.

Education that mirrors the job

Most financial education stops at teaching you how to build a model. Deltashark goes further because the interviews, and the jobs behind them, demand far more.

These are the kinds of questions that define readiness for a trading floor or a fund desk. The curriculum, written entirely by professionals with direct industry experience, is built to address them across both tracks.

Research written by hedge fund professionals

Original research sits alongside the curriculum. Every report is written by a former hedge fund analyst, with the same structure and rigour you would find on an institutional desk. Equity reports cover single-name companies in depth. Macro reports cover rates, inflation, growth, and policy. Sector reports cover competitive dynamics, unit economics, and positioning.

Reading real research is the fastest way to learn how professional analysis is structured. It builds the muscle for writing your own theses, and the interview fluency to stand out with insights beyond what is in the headlines.

A community of people on the same path

Breaking into quant trading or hedge funds is usually a solo grind. Deltashark gives aspirants the network and support a single individual rarely has access to. The community feed is a members-only space to post questions, share wins and interview experiences, talk through internships and career paths, and learn from peers walking the same route.

Bi-weekly support calls run on top, hosted by Burak. One hour every two weeks for live questions, CV reviews, interview prep, networking, and whatever else comes with working to break in.